Intellectual Disability: Management, Causes and Social Perceptions : Management, Causes and Social Perceptions

✍ Scribed by Domenico F. Mancini; Carlo M. Greco

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 194
Series: Mental Illnesses and Treatments
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Intellectual disability occurs with a frequency of 1-3% within the general population. This impairment is frequently associated with additional features like multiple congenital anomalies and facial dysmorphisms. This book presents current research in the management, causes and social perceptions of mental retardation. Topics include chromosomal regions with a high diagnostic impact in mental retardation syndromes; psychosocial and psychopharmacological treatment of comorbid aggression in pediatric mental retardation; caring for children with Williams and Smith-Magenis syndromes; and cognitive skills enhancement in mental retardation.

✦ Subjects

Mental retardation. ; Mental retardation -- Treatment. ; Mental retardation -- Social aspects.

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