Residential Programming for Mentally Retarded Persons

RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMMING FOR MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS Prevailing Attitudes and Practices in the Field of Mental Retardation

Institutionalised Mentally Retarded in a State Mental Hospital

298 institutionalised mentally retarded patients in Institute of Mental Health, Madras were studied for the aetiological factors, levels of intelligence, associated disorders and family structure and compared with 163 matched group of mentally retarded attending the outpatient services of the Institute of Mental Health. In 41% of the institutionalised the cause was unknown, 29.3% had infective ...

Medicaid-financed residential care for persons with mental retardation

Two sources of Medicaid support for persons with mental retardation and related conditions (MR/RC) are examined, the intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded (ICF/MR) program and the home and community-based services (HCBS) waiver. Results indicate that Medicaid support through the ICF/MR program has shown little recent growth in terms of number of persons served, although expenditu...

Mentally Retarded Persons Offences; Causes of Crime and Prevention from the Perspective of Police Officers, Lawyers and Judges

This study aims to identify and prioritize the most serious crimes committed by mentally retarded people, causes and factors to prevent the commission of a crime from the perspective of police officers, lawyers and judges are doing... -member , which included set high standards seventh. Results: Results of this study showed that Lowest and the most frequent crimes committed by mentally retarded...

Ect in Mentally Retarded Subjects with Psychiatric Illness

The mentally retarded subjects show a much higher prevalence of full range of psychiatric disorders than the non-retarded population. Whereas the role of psychotropic drugs in such patients is well discussed, the reports on the use of ECT are scarce. Many psychiatrists dealing with the mentally retarded psychiatric patients are reluctant to consider ECT due to lack of adequate experience. We re...