Is Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder a helpful concept for adults with intellectual disability?

Mitchell, Anna; Clegg, Jennifer

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.2005.00705.x

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“…Behavioral problems are associated with experiencing life events (Ghaziuddin, 1988) and a potential side effect of psychiatric illness in this population group (Cooper, Melville, & Einfeld, 2003), with Marston, Perry, and Roy (1997) noting behavioral equivalents in the presentation of depression in people with intellectual disabilities. This supports modification of the general population criteria for PTSD, for example, by the inclusion of behavioral problems (McCarthy, 2001;Mitchell & Clegg, 2005), plus physical health changes (Mitchell, Clegg, & Furniss, 2006) and changes in skills (Murphy, O'Callaghan, & Clare, 2007), which have also been linked to the experience of adverse life events in people with intellectual disabilities.…”

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The Effects of Traumatizing Life Events on People With Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review

Wigham

Hatton

Taylor

2011

Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities

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The Effects of Traumatizing Life Events on People With Intellectual Disabilities: A Systematic Review

Wigham

Hatton

Taylor

2011

Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities

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“…Mitchell and Clegg (2005) report that sexual abuse survivors with ID present with PTSD but that they may have additional symptoms, which may contribute to misdiagnosis. In their case-controlled study Sequiera et al (2003) found that 35% of their sample had symptoms that fulfilled the criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD.…”

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PTSD Symptoms in Intellectually Disabled Victims of Sexual Assault

Shabalala

Jasson²

2011

South African Journal of Psychology

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The high rates of sexual violence in the country suggest that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are likely to be sexually victimised. Rape and sexual assault have negative consequences for survivors, with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) being the most common psychiatric diagnosis used to capture the reaction to this trauma. This study sought to investigate the presence of PTSD symptoms in a group of people with ID who had been sexually abused. The Child PTSD Checklist was administered to 54 individuals with ID -27 with and 27 without a known history of sexual abuse. The Checklist was also administered to the care-givers of those who had been sexually abused. Higher rates of a PTSD diagnosis and a higher intensity of PTSD symptoms were found in the group with than in the group without a history of sexual abuse. There were no significant differences between self and care-giver reports with respect to the prevalence of a PTSD diagnosis, but there were differences on the different symptom clusters. The results indicate that survivors with ID should be asked directly about their internal subjective experiences, with care-giver reports being used as collateral information, and that therapeutic interventions following sexual abuse should be offered.

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“…Very little research, however, has been conducted on traumatic experiences across the life span, except for isolated experiences, such as sexual abuse [15][16][17][18] and understanding posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in PWID [19,20].…”

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