Editorial for the special issue ‘Intellectual Disabilities and Mental health: Assessment and Treatment’

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Note from the Editors

The editors of the International Journal of Developmental Disabilities (IJDD) would like to thank the guest editor, Trine Lise Bakken, for conceiving and organising this timely special issue on ‘Intellectual Disabilities and Mental health: Assessment and Treatment’ and for putting together papers on different facets of these issues. We would also like to thank the individual contributors, authors, and reviewers of the manuscripts. This special issue highlights the complexity in mental health services for people with different kinds of ID. Some of these publications will be presented in a workshop organised by Trine at the workshop at the 13th European Association for Mental Health in Intellectual Disability (EAMHID) Congress, to be held in Berlin, Germany, 23–25 September, 2021 Arturo Langa and Brian Salmons.