11 research outputs found
Diagnóstico diferencial de primeiro episódio psicótico: importância da abordagem otimizada nas emergências psiquiátricas
Treatment and Maintenance Effects of Behavioral Intervention and Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in a Man with Catatonia, Life-Threatening Self-Injury, and Autism Spectrum Disorder
Pharmacological Management of Behavioral and Psychiatric Symptoms in Older Adults with Intellectual Disability
Double Sexual Standards: Sexuality and People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Require Intensive Support
Actigraphic investigation of circadian rhythm functioning and activity levels in children with mucopolysaccharidosis type III (Sanfilippo syndrome)
Issues of sexuality and relationships
Sexuality in the lives of people with intellectual disability is almost always conflated with sexual abuse, sexual behaviours, sexual knowledge and questions about capacity to “be” sexual. Rarely is sexuality discussed in a more holistic way that acknowledges pleasure, desire, identity and “self-authored” sexual expression. Writers like Michael Gill (2015) suggested this is due to sexual ableism which he defined as “the system of imbuing sexuality with determinations of qualification to be sexual based on criteria of ability, intellect, morality, physicality, appearance …” (p. 3). Through this lens, sexuality in the lives of people with intellectual disability is mediated by ideas about capacity and competence, assumptions of desirability and overshadowed by a discourse of risk and vulnerability. Foley (2017) reported that underpinning this discourse is a “paternalistic regime” whereby the sexual lives of people with intellectual disability are strongly surveilled, often by parents or other caregivers. He described this regime as being played out where people with intellectual disability, despite their chronological adulthood, “either must ask permission and/or are prevented by their parents from taking control over their social/sexual lives” (p. 6)