• DOI:10.1007/s10803-014-2157-z
Corpus ID: 33605627

Specialized Inpatient Psychiatry for Serious Behavioral Disturbance in Autism and Intellectual Disability

@article{Siegel2014SpecializedIP,
  title={Specialized Inpatient Psychiatry for Serious Behavioral Disturbance in Autism and Intellectual Disability},
  author={Matthew P. Siegel and B. Milligan and Bruce Chemelski and D. Payne and Beth Ellsworth and J. Harmon and Olivia Teer and Kahsi A. Smith},
  journal={Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders},
  year={2014},
  volume={44},
  pages={3026-3032}
}

Matthew P. Siegel, B. Milligan, +5 authors Kahsi A. Smith

Published 2014

Medicine

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Psychiatric hospitalization of children with autism spectrum disorder and/or intellectual disability is common, however, the effectiveness of this intervention is largely unknown. Thirty-eight clinically-referred children 8–19 years old admitted to a specialized inpatient psychiatry unit were assessed by a consistent caregiver on the Aberrant Behavior Checklist-Irritability (ABC-I) subscale at admission, discharge and 2 months post discharge. There was a decrease in the mean ABC-I score from… CONTINUE READING

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