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Caring For, and Learning From, a Relative with Intellectual Disabilities

Susan Breitenstein, PhD, RN is an assistant professor at the Rush University College of Nursing and an RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar. Dr. Breitenstein is a child and adolescent psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and reflects on her personal experiences of a relative with intellectual disabilities.