Current understanding of the concept of mental retardation in psychiatry does not-

Options

A. Etiological understanding of intelligence and its impairment
B. Assessment methods and management of for associated comorbidity
C. Not clinically recognized as a developmental disorder
D. Needs to meet criteria of impairment and dysfunction to be called disorder

Answer

C

Explanation

Mental retardation affects a greater proportion of people in the general population. However, a diagnosis of mental retardation by itself does not amount to a disorder as a vast majority of people with mental retardation still live in the community with very little need of help.