Dual diagnosis is co-occurring intellectual disability and
mental illness. While preparing content for this web site, the
best source of introductory information from the Canadian Mental
Health Association on dual diagnosis and the issues associated
with its treatment was found in CMHA Ontario’s Position Paper on
Dual Diagnosis from June, 1998.
Click here for the Position Paper and
click here
for the Executive Summary. The Centre for Addiction and Mental
Health also published a paper on dual diagnosis in 2003.
Click here to read it.
To read more information about intellectual disabilities,
click here. |