Both contemporary and in-depth, this multidisciplinary, multidimensional volume covers all available therapeutic methods, including psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, behavior therapies, cognitive therapy, and the systems approach for all the main diagnostic disorders in people with mental retardation.
Anton Došen, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatric Aspects of Mental Retardation at Catholic University, and Medical Director of the Clinic for Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders in the Mentally Retarded in Nieuw Spraeland, Oostrum, The Netherlands.
Kenneth Day, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C. Psych., D.P.M., is Medical Director and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Northgate and Prudoe NHS Trust in Northumberland, and Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry at the University Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom.