Sexual abuse and intellectual disability: How people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience.
Sexual abuse is a problem that affects, especially, people with intellectual disabilities. In order to cope with this, the role of professionals is essential for both the identification and the prevention and treatment of this problem. However, there are few studies focus on what extent the professi...
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doaj-3b2e825395f14c9692c6ed7126bbb7f92020-11-25T01:42:39ZspaAsociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y DiscapacidadINFAD0214-98772603-59872017-11-014112913610.17060/ijodaep.2017.n1.v4.1035863Sexual abuse and intellectual disability: How people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience.Cristina Giménez-García0María Dolores Gil-Llario1Estefanía Ruiz-Palomino2Irene Díaz Rodríguez3Dpto. Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología. Universitat Jaume I de Castellón.Dpto. Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Universitat de València. Estudi General. Valencia.Dpto. Psicología Básica, Clínica y Psicobiología. Universitat Jaume I de Castellón., Castellón.Dpto. Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación. Universitat de València. Estudi General., Valencia.Sexual abuse is a problem that affects, especially, people with intellectual disabilities. In order to cope with this, the role of professionals is essential for both the identification and the prevention and treatment of this problem. However, there are few studies focus on what extent the professionals’ evaluation agree the real experience of the people with intellectual disability. For this reason, the present study analyses risk perception and experience of sexual abuse suffered by people with intellectual disability, compared to the identification and evaluation of professionals who attend them. For this purpose, 154 adults with intellectual disabilities and 16 professionals completed the DAS, the ECS and the ECS-R respectively. The results show how sexual abuse is a reality for people with intellectual disabilities although they do not always manifest receiving, sometimes, rejection by their close people. Moreover, gender differences are shown, in which women suffer sexual abuse and its consequences more frequently. Professionals only realize about some part of this situation and they attribute greater vulnerability to women and those who have already suffered a prior episode of sexual abuse. In this sense, it would be essential to have programs for the detection and treatment of sexual abuse, considering that professionals are a positive reference for people with intellectual disabilitieshttp://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/1035discapacidad intelectualabuso sexualgéneropercepción de riesgo |
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Cristina Giménez-García María Dolores Gil-Llario Estefanía Ruiz-Palomino Irene Díaz Rodríguez Sexual abuse and intellectual disability: How people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience. INFAD discapacidad intelectual abuso sexual género percepción de riesgo |
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Sexual abuse and intellectual disability: How people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience. |
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Sexual abuse and intellectual disability: How people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience. |
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Sexual abuse and intellectual disability: How people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience. |
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Sexual abuse and intellectual disability: How people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience. |
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Sexual abuse and intellectual disability: How people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience. |
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sexual abuse and intellectual disability: how people with intellectual disabilities and their professionals identify and value the experience. |
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Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y Discapacidad |
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Sexual abuse is a problem that affects, especially, people with intellectual disabilities. In order to cope with this, the role of professionals is essential for both the identification and the prevention and treatment of this problem. However, there are few studies focus on what extent the professionals’ evaluation agree the real experience of the people with intellectual disability. For this reason, the present study analyses risk perception and experience of sexual abuse suffered by people with intellectual disability, compared to the identification and evaluation of professionals who attend them. For this purpose, 154 adults with intellectual disabilities and 16 professionals completed the DAS, the ECS and the ECS-R respectively. The results show how sexual abuse is a reality for people with intellectual disabilities although they do not always manifest receiving, sometimes, rejection by their close people. Moreover, gender differences are shown, in which women suffer sexual abuse and its consequences more frequently. Professionals only realize about some part of this situation and they attribute greater vulnerability to women and those who have already suffered a prior episode of sexual abuse. In this sense, it would be essential to have programs for the detection and treatment of sexual abuse, considering that professionals are a positive reference for people with intellectual disabilities |
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discapacidad intelectual abuso sexual género percepción de riesgo |
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