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Forensic psychiatry for people with learning disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. Halstead
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The forensic psychiatry of learning disability is a subspeciality which exists on the ‘borderlines’ between other areas. It takes in information from forensic psychiatry, learning disability, child and adolescent psychiatry, psychology, genetics and pharmacology to name but a few.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , March 1996, pp. 76 - 85
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1996 

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