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Avoiding Diagnostic Overshadowing: Ethical Assessment And Differential Considerations In IDD Populations

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Short Description

Focuses on ethical assessment with IDD populations, including how to avoid diagnostic overshadowing and strengthen differential thinking while honoring communication differences and context.

Learning Objectives

• Define diagnostic overshadowing and identify common clinical examples.
• Apply differential considerations that separate trauma, mood, psychosis, neurodivergence, and medical factors.
• Identify assessment and documentation practices that reduce harm and increase accuracy.

Each topic can be adapted to your audience, timeframe, and delivery format, with a minimum of 1 hour of instruction. The summary on this page is intentionally brief; detailed descriptions, learning objectives, and sample agendas are available upon request.

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