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Providing Treatment for Intellectual Disability Extremes

Published in Social Innovations. 2022, 13.

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Providing Treatment for Intellectual Disability Extremes

Scott Spreat

This paper highlights the need for specialized treatment services for individuals who have intellectual disability concomitant with severe mental health challenges as evidence by significant forms of intrapunitive and extrapunitive aggression. Limitations of current funding and regulatory approaches are discussed.

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