Psychotherapy for persons with mental retardation

Mental Retardation

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 399-405

  Lynch, Christopher ^a  

^a Mountainside Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW;

MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES;

HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 4944230480     PISSN: 00476765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/0047-6765(2004)42<399:PFPWMR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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