{"id":24558,"date":"2024-09-06T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/mental-retardation\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T22:20:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:20:49","slug":"mental-retardation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/mental-retardation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental retardation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is a condition characterized by significantly below-average intellectual functioning and limitations in adaptive skills such as communication, self-care, and social adjustment.\nThe level of mental retardation can range from mild to severe. <\/p>\n\n<p>Treatment:\nTreatment for mental retardation focuses on teaching coping skills and improving the patient&#8217;s quality of life.\nThis may include special education, rehabilitation, behavioral therapy, and medical support.\nThe goal of treatment is to make the life of a person with mental retardation as easy as possible and integrate them into society.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a condition characterized by significantly below-average intellectual functioning and limitations in adaptive skills such as communication, self-care, and social adjustment. The level of mental retardation can range from mild to severe. Treatment: Treatment for mental retardation focuses on teaching coping skills and improving the patient&#8217;s quality of life. This may include special education, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-definition-of-psychological-disorders-and-appropriate-treatment-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40361,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24558\/revisions\/40361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}