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Mental Retardation and Mental Illness in the Year 2000: Issues and Trends

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Mental Retardation in the Year 2000

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Identifying the issues, trends, and events that will affect persons with mental retardation and mental illness by the year 2000 presents the authors of this chapter, who bring 50 years of combined experience of specialization with this subpopulation, a challenging and unique opportunity to present what we feel could and should happen to this group of individuals.

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Stark, J.A., Menolascino, F.J. (1992). Mental Retardation and Mental Illness in the Year 2000: Issues and Trends. In: Rowitz, L. (eds) Mental Retardation in the Year 2000. Disorders of Human Learning, Behavior, and Communication. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9115-9_11

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