Munir Kerim M
The Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA.
Psychiatry (Abingdon). 2009 Nov 1;8(11):448-452. doi: 10.1016/j.mppsy.2009.08.003.
Although psychiatry in the United States owes its origins to the treatment of persons with intellectual disabilities (ID), over the past 50 years, clinical services, education of professionals and research in psychiatry of ID have consistently lagged behind other fields in psychiatry. The historical and contemporary reasons for this development are discussed with recommendations for establishment of a fully credentialed subspecialty of Psychiatry of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the United States.
尽管美国的精神病学起源于对智力残疾者的治疗，但在过去50年里，智力残疾精神病学的临床服务、专业人员教育和研究一直落后于精神病学的其他领域。本文讨论了这一发展的历史和当代原因，并就在美国建立一个具备充分资质的智力和发育障碍精神病学亚专业提出了建议。
