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In homeless people with SMI, ACT reduces the psychiatric symptoms when compared<br />

with standard Case management 221 .<br />

Liv<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> group improves the executive functions, especially <strong>in</strong> patients with no substance<br />

abuse 223 .<br />

Recommendations<br />

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For homeless people with SMI who require psychiatric care and psychosocial <strong>in</strong>tervention,<br />

it is advisable <strong>for</strong> both to be supplied together via <strong>in</strong>tegral programmes where residential<br />

programme/hous<strong>in</strong>g is offered.<br />

When there is no active substance abuse, it would be advisable to provide grouped accommodation<br />

to homeless people with SMI <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>tegral <strong>in</strong>tervention programmes.<br />

When it is not possible to use accommodation and support programmes <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>tegral<br />

psychosocial <strong>in</strong>tervention of homeless people with SMI, the <strong>in</strong>tervention of assertive<br />

community treatment team should be offered.<br />

5.4.3. SMI and low IQ/mental retardation<br />

There seems to be general agreement about the high prevalence of mental disorders <strong>in</strong> people with<br />

<strong>in</strong>tellectual disability or mental retardation (understood as a person whose <strong>in</strong>tellectual coefficient<br />

is 70 or below) 224 , at the same time as less access to specialised mental health services. Several<br />

factors may be <strong>in</strong>terfer<strong>in</strong>g with this, one of which may be the perception by professionals that psychological<br />

<strong>in</strong>terventions may be <strong>in</strong>efficient due to the cognitive deficits and verbal limitations 225 .<br />

On the other hand, the correct diagnosis of the symptoms, syndromes and nosological entities<br />

<strong>in</strong> this population may be limited by the use of the current diagnostic classification criteria.<br />

More specifically, the diagnosis of psychotic disorders (schizophrenia and related disorders, <strong>in</strong>cluded<br />

<strong>in</strong> SMI) is h<strong>in</strong>dered by the problem of dist<strong>in</strong>guish<strong>in</strong>g real halluc<strong>in</strong>ations from other nonpathological<br />

behaviours, such as talk<strong>in</strong>g to themselves or to imag<strong>in</strong>ary friends. Added to this is a<br />

high prevalence of symptomatology, but limited detection capacity (lack of diagnostic criteria and<br />

adapted and validated <strong>in</strong>struments <strong>for</strong> this population) of greater psychiatric disorders. The use of<br />

diagnostic criteria and <strong>in</strong>struments adapted to mental retardation has been proposed there<strong>for</strong>e 226<br />

as a way of improv<strong>in</strong>g the reliability of the diagnoses <strong>in</strong> this population.<br />

Question to be answered<br />

• Which psychosocial treatment is more effective <strong>in</strong> people with SMI and a low IQ?<br />

To be able to answer this question the RCT by Mart<strong>in</strong> et al 227 has been <strong>in</strong>cluded, which<br />

compares the efficacy of the ACT model with the standard community treatment, to treat mental<br />

illness <strong>in</strong> light to moderate mental retardation (MR) and SMI.<br />

Due to the little evidence found, which could also answer this question, a series of cases by<br />

Haddock 228 (n = 5) have been <strong>in</strong>cluded, where the people that are described, suffer from light MR<br />

and schizophrenia (they are be<strong>in</strong>g treated with antipyschotics) and chronic and resistant sensoper-<br />

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