Mental Health Services for People with Developmental Disabilities
It’s June 19, 2013, my first day as a behavior and sexuality support professional. I’m handed a caseload of over 30 people with developmental disabilities and mental health diagnoses. All of them had a psychiatrist who prescribed psychotropic medications; however, none of them were working with a therapist. How were they ever going to get off these high doses of psychotropic medications without working with someone on the underlying mental health challenges? Obviously, this was a fluke or caseload oversight…right? Sadly, over the next few weeks, I learned about the [...]