An upbeat and thoroughly readable guide, Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome provides parents, mental-health professionals, teachers, and caregivers the keys to understand how to promote mental wellness and to resolve psychosocial problems in people with Down syndrome. This groundbreaking book is written by the founding directors of the Adult Down Syndrome Center of Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois. The authors draw on 30 years of combined experience treating more than 3,000 adolescents and adults with Down syndrome, aged 12 to 83. The book clarifies what the common behavioral characteristics are, how some could be mistaken for mental illness, and what bona fide mental-health problems occur more commonly in people with Down syndrome.