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Behavioral Disorders and Drug Therapy
Dragana Macesic-Petrovic , Dijana Lazic, Mirjana Japundza-Milisavljevic, Aleksandra Ðuric-Zdravkovic
Serbia

Background: This work treats the fields of behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD in children with intellectual disability with the possibility of applying drug treatment.

Method: The research included 124 examinees with mild intellectual disabilities who attended primary schools in Belgrade. The IOWA Conners scale was applied in the research for estimating behavior and the efficiency of applied drug treatment.

Results: The research results point out the presence of behavior disturbances and the disturbances of emotional functioning in a range from 11.2% to 40.4%.

Conclusions: In accordance with the gained results of research, this work points out the importance of applying different method approaches such as multimodal oriented treatment based on the activities of the multidisciplinary team which includes psychopharmacological approach (sympathomimetics-psychostimulances and atoksomethyn), behavioral oriented treatment, such as psychotherapy with families and children with ADHD and social work with environment.