The failure to detect low IQ in psychiatric assessment
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 135 (3) , 345-349
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.135.3.345
Abstract
The authors assessed the IQs of 188 hospitalized psychiatric patients and found that 27 (14.4%) had IQs of 85 or less. However, the psychiatric records of 22 of the patients with low IQs showed that only 5 contained any mention of level of intellectual functioning. These findings suggest that a variable of major importance for diagnosis and treatment planning is often ignored.Keywords
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