Specifically, residents receive subacute care involving intensive therapies, behavior modification, psychopharmacology, nursing assessment and intervention, diagnostic evaluation, and educational planning.

Typical activities include design, production, marketing, testing, quality control, estimating, surveying, inspection, diagnostic evaluation, supervision, management, technical sales and teaching.

The individual needs to undergo a full diagnostic evaluation, including a thorough medical, social, adaptive, motor skills and communication history.

There are also more involved diagnostic evaluations for which contain both productive and comprehensive parts.

Time and budgetary constraints often limit practicing psychiatrists from conducting more thorough diagnostic evaluations.