...Claire Marie Downs; Kelly Rayner-Smith Purpose The assessment for and diagnosis of personality disorder (PD) continue to be contentious, with many prominent practitioner psychologists arguing against this specific label and providing a credible alternative framework to psychiatric diagnosis more...

... vary. Originality/value The discussion of these four cases strengthens the existing literature, and highlights the implications a comorbid diagnosis of ID has on the assessment and management of catatonia in ASDs. Huw Morgan Dunstall can be contacted at: dunstallhm@gmail.com 12 07 2018...

... recommended a synonym set (“synset”) ontological approach to the conceptualisation of this health condition underlying a clinical rationale for its diagnosis. It proposed replacing MR with Intellectual Developmental Disorders (IDD) in ICD-11, defined as “a group of developmental conditions characterized...

...Dr Marco O. Bertelli; Lisa Underwood; Jane McCarthy; Eddie Chaplin; Marco O. Bertelli Purpose – Adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) present with a range of psychiatric disorders. However, making an accurate diagnosis is challenging. It is important to follow a robust and informed process...

... Evidence, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library. For Medline, the following search string was used: (“intellectual disab*” or “mental retard*” or “learning disab*”) and (“PD” or psychopathology or “mental health”) and (assessment or diagnosis or procedure or tool or evaluation). Some minor adaptations were...

... prospective screening of people with Down's syndrome takes place to ensure the early diagnosis of the condition. However, little has been published on the value of this type of screening. The purpose of this paper is to report on a prospective screening programme and asks whether the programme is effective...

...John Tully; Diana Schirliu; Maria Moran Purpose The Diagnostic Criteria for Psychiatric Disorders for Use with Adults with Learning Disabilities/Mental Retardation (DC‐LD) was introduced in 2003 in an attempt to improve accuracy of diagnosis in the intellectual disability population. The paper...

...Peter Carpenter Purpose The paper aims to provide an overview of the current situation with diagnosis and assessment in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Design/methodology/approach The paper is a review of literature combined with personal observation of practice. Findings Diagnosis cannot...