A Prevalence Study of Sexual Abuse of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities Referred for Sex Education

1997 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle McCarthy ◽  
David Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Prevalence Study ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

scholarly journals The Effect of Sex Education Program on the Attitudes of the Families of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadriye Uçar ◽  
◽  
Havva A. Karabulut ◽  
Yunus Yılmaz ◽  
Ahmet S. Uçar
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
T Test ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Test Model ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Dependent Samples

It is extremely important to provide sex education to individuals with intellectual disabilities because they do not know where, when, and in which situations their sexual behavior is appropriate or not, and because they cannot control their sexuality. This study aimed to examine the effect of the Sex Education Program for Families of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ZACEP) on the knowledge level of families of adults with intellectual disabilities and their attitudes towards their children’s sexual development and sex education. The research adopted a single group pre-test and post-test model, one of the experimental research models. The sample consisted of nine mothers. The effectiveness data of the study were collected through the Parental Sex Education Attitude Scale. SPSS packet program was used for data analysis. The pretest and posttest items were first analyzed with descriptive statistics, then frequency, percentage, and maximum-minimum values were calculated. The t-test analysis for dependent samples is required to compare the pretest and posttest scores of a single group. However, due to the number of participants (N=9), the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, which is the nonparametric equivalent of t-test, was used. Research findings showed that the ZACEP did not affect the mothers' attitudes towards the sexuality of adults with intellectual disabilities. Besides, the ZACEP did not affect parents' attitudes towards sexuality at item level.

Sexual Abuse of Children and Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

2019 ◽  
pp. 578-587
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Kumar Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Individual

This chapter describes the incidence of sexual abuse is often reported in children and adults, but these incidences are not uncommon in the individual with intellectual disabilities (IDs). This heinous behavior carries a negative impact not only on the individual but also on their family. The purpose of the chapter is threefold, first is to present a brief review of the available literature on sexual abuse in children and adults with IDs, second is to discuss preventive, supportive and intervention strategies for clinical practice and third is to report a case series, where five cases are described. The intent is to provide mental health professionals and clinicians' information about consequences of sexual abuse and strategies for prevention and intervention. These strategies have clinical utility and can be incorporated while dealing individual with IDs and their parents or caregivers.

scholarly journals IQ, Speciation and Sexuality: How Suspicions of Sexual Abuse are Produced within a Contemporary Intellectual Disability Service

Somatechnics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Feely
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Disability Service ◽  
Social Species ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Historical Moment

It is commonplace, in our historical moment, to assume the inherent characteristics of people we label intellectually disabled makes them vulnerable to sexual abuse or exploitation. Drawing on the findings of a qualitative research project regarding the treatment of sexuality within a service for adults with intellectual disabilities in the Republic of Ireland, I take a very different approach. I argue that, suspicions, fears, and allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation are best understood as produced in, and by, the material-semiotic assemblage that both service providers and service users inhabit. In the most reductive terms possible, I am going to suggest that suspicions and allegations of sexual exploitation are continually produced within the disability service because the two social species (‘normal people’ and ‘people with intellectual disabilities’) that inhabit this material territory, and share its spaces, understand intimate relationships with and amongst people with intellectual disabilities through very different discursive lenses.

Capacity of adults with intellectual disabilities to consent to sexual relationships

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 1347-1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
GLYNIS H. MURPHY ◽  
ALI O'CALLAGHAN
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Sexual Knowledge ◽  
Capacity To Consent ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Almost All

Background. For people with intellectual disabilities there is a difficult balance to be struck between empowering people to claim their sexual rights and protecting them from abuse. Hypothetically, services should be guided by whether a particular person with intellectual disabilities has the capacity to consent to sexual relationships. However, there has been little agreement on how to define such capacity. This study examines the issue of capacity to consent to sexual relationships using a functional approach.Method. Adults with intellectual disabilities (n=60) and young people presumed in law able to consent (n=60) were assessed for their sexual knowledge and vulnerability to abuse.Results. Adults with intellectual disabilities were significantly less knowledgeable about almost all aspects of sex and appeared significantly more vulnerable to abuse, having difficulty at times distinguishing abusive from consenting relationships. Nevertheless, some adults with intellectual disabilities scored highly on all measures, especially if they had relatively high IQs and had had sex education.Conclusions. The reasons for the poorer knowledge and increased vulnerability of people with intellectual disabilities are discussed and it is recommended that they should have on-going access to sex education. Implications of the findings for definitions of capacity to consent to sexual relationships are considered.

Sexual Abuse of Children and Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

2018 ◽  
pp. 197-206
Author(s):  
Sanjeev Kumar Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Individual

This chapter describes the incidence of sexual abuse is often reported in children and adults, but these incidences are not uncommon in the individual with intellectual disabilities (IDs). This heinous behavior carries a negative impact not only on the individual but also on their family. The purpose of the chapter is threefold, first is to present a brief review of the available literature on sexual abuse in children and adults with IDs, second is to discuss preventive, supportive and intervention strategies for clinical practice and third is to report a case series, where five cases are described. The intent is to provide mental health professionals and clinicians' information about consequences of sexual abuse and strategies for prevention and intervention. These strategies have clinical utility and can be incorporated while dealing individual with IDs and their parents or caregivers.

scholarly journals Η σεξουαλική εκπαίδευση και τα ψυχοσεξουαλικά προβλήματα ατόμων με νοητική υστέρηση

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Παναγιώτης Σιαπέρας ◽  
Σπυρίδων - Γεώργιος Σούλης
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Sexual Life ◽  
Sexual Offence ◽  
Her Family ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Victims Of Sexual Abuse ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

Today even after the general progress based on Normalisation (Nirje, 1972), on services and policy for people with intellectual disabilities there is lack of knowledge and programmes on psychosexual issues they face. This paper tries to summarise and discuss the need for ordinary sexual life for people with intellectual disabilities. It presents the importance of programmes in sex education and contraception and how they should be introduced by the services. Furthermore it shows possible aetiology and impact of sexual abuse for the victim with intellectual disabilities and his/her family. Also it is presented how services should react and what kind of programmes should be introduced in cases of people with intellectual disabilities who either are victims of sexual abuse or commit sexual offence.

scholarly journals The Effect of Sex Education Program on the Attitudes of the Families of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadriye Uçar ◽  
Havva A. Karabulut ◽  
Yunus Yılmaz ◽  
Ahmet S. Uçar
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
T Test ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Test Model ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Dependent Samples

It is extremely important to provide sex education to individuals with intellectual disabilities because they do not know where, when, and in which situations their sexual behavior is appropriate or not, and because they cannot control their sexuality. This study aimed to examine the effect of the Sex Education Program for Families of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ZACEP) on the knowledge level of families of adults with intellectual disabilities and their attitudes towards their children’s sexual development and sex education. The research adopted a single group pre-test and post-test model, one of the experimental research models. The sample consisted of nine mothers. The effectiveness data of the study were collected through the Parental Sex Education Attitude Scale. SPSS packet program was used for data analysis. The pretest and posttest items were first analyzed with descriptive statistics, then frequency, percentage, and maximum-minimum values were calculated. The t-test analysis for dependent samples is required to compare the pretest and posttest scores of a single group. However, due to the number of participants (N=9), the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, which is the nonparametric equivalent of t-test, was used. Research findings showed that the ZACEP did not affect the mothers' attitudes towards the sexuality of adults with intellectual disabilities. Besides, the ZACEP did not affect parents' attitudes towards sexuality at item level.

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