Abstract
A literature review was conducted aiming to understand the interface between the Intellectual Disability and Mental Health fields and to contribute to mitigating the path of institutionalizing individuals with intellectual deficiencies. The so-called dual diagnosis phenomenon remains underestimated in Brazil but is the object of research and specific public policy internationally. This phenomenon alerts us to the prevalence of mental health problems in those with intellectual disabilities, limiting their social inclusion. The findings reinforce the importance of this theme and indicate possible diagnostic invisibility of the development of mental illness in those with intellectual disabilities in Brazil, which may contribute to sustaining psychiatric institutionalization of this population.
Highlights
The field of Intellectual Disability and Mental Health share the same historical origin – both positioned in defending the rights of populations with a history of institutionalization rights, each eventually followed their own paths.All over the world, mental health has become a field of knowledge and practices about the precepts of deinstitutionalization and transformation of a model of care focused on psychiatric hospitals
Mental health has become a field of knowledge and practices about the precepts of deinstitutionalization and transformation of a model of care focused on psychiatric hospitals
In Brazil, mental health has been established as a public policy of the State, made possible by a legal apparatus that guides the reorganization of a service network sensitive to its clinical demands, expanded for the prospect of developing actions in community and social context
Summary
The field of Intellectual Disability and Mental Health share the same historical origin – both positioned in defending the rights of populations with a history of institutionalization rights –, each eventually followed their own paths. The constitutive political and theoretical field of intellectual disability stems from the 2000s, with recent conceptual reformulations, including its own nomenclature This term has been preferably used to as it refer to the intellectual functioning, differing from scenarios of mental disorders. Beginning with the processes of deinstitutionalization, with the closing of psychiatric hospitals in various countries of the world, was care redirected for community-based mental health services, as well as the creation of social support institutions for people with intellectual disabilities.[5]. This study aimed to understand the interface between the fields of intellectual disability and mental health and contribute to the mitigation institutionalization of people with intellectual disabilities
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