2018 Volume 59 Issue 5 Pages 566-576
Health care transition for youth with intellectual disabilities and developmental disorders was discussed through the role of medical care from school age to adulthood in dealing with issues surrounding attachment, the educational framework, and over-adaptation in ASD, with strong effects on adaptation in adulthood. Characteristic psychiatric symptoms are observed, and early transition to psychiatric care is considered desirable when such symptoms appear. However, few psychiatrists are familiar with the psychiatric symptoms and appropriate modes of dealing with intellectual disabilities and developmental disorders. The timing of transition is dependent upon the medical resources available in the region where the patient resides. Shared understanding of psychiatric symptoms among child psychiatrists, pediatricians, and psychiatrists through case studies and other such ways of collaboration are considered vital for smooth transition of care, which could also contribute to the circumventing onset of further mental disease.
