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Handbook of Dual Diagnosis

Assessment and Treatment in Persons with Intellectual Disorders

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Overview

  • Examines comorbid behavior problems and mental health disorders in persons with intellectual disabilities (ID)
  • Discusses dual diagnosis and ethics, diagnostic systems, mental health disorders, challenging behaviors, and genetics
  • Explores clinical issues (e.g., services, education, risk factors, functional assessment)
  • Addresses a broad range of disorders in persons with ID (e.g., anxiety, depression, ASD, ADHD, dementia)

Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)

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Table of contents (38 chapters)

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About this book

This handbook addresses behavior problems and mental health disorders in persons with intellectual disabilities. It provides an overview of the history of dual diagnosis and related theories, ethics, diagnostic systems, mental health disorders, and challenging behaviors. The handbook examines general clinical issues, such as the effects of cognitive performance on the choice of assessment and treatment methods, service delivery systems, education models, risk factors, functional assessment, and structured interviews. Chapters provide a much-needed reference for practitioners and practitioners in training. The applied focus of the book continues with assessment/diagnosis sections of mental health disorders, and challenging behaviors. In addition, chapters describe treatments for discrete mental health and behavior problems, such as intellectual disabilities, severe psychopathology, autism, ADHD, substance abuse, and aggression.  


Topics featured in this handbook include: 
  • Genetic disorders and dual diagnosis. 
  • Assessment of anxiety in persons with dual diagnosis. 
  • Aging with intellectual disabilities. 
  • Feeding problems and assessment in individuals with dual diagnosis. 
  • Pica in individuals with intellectual disability. 
  • Treatment of social skills in dual diagnosis. 



The Handbook of Dual Diagnosis is an essential reference for researchers, graduate students, clinicians and related therapists and professionals in clinical child and school psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, social work, developmental psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, pediatrics, and special education.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

    Johnny L. Matson

About the editor

Johnny L. Matson, Ph.D., is Professor and Distinguished Research Master in the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A. He has also previously held a professorship in psychiatry and clinical psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of more than 800 publications including 41 books. He served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief for the journals Research in Developmental Disabilities (Elsevier) and Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (Elsevier) and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (Springer).


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