Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing helps with PTSD symptoms in two people with learning disabilities

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The authors of this study set out to look at whether trauma treatment had been successfully used with people with learning disabilities and substantially limited verbal capacities. They found no case studies in the literature. The article describes and assesses the applicability of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) a trauma therapy based on the [read the full story…]

Review finds higher rates of trauma in learning disability population but lower rates of access to treatment

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The authors of this paper set out to look at rates of sexual abuse and interpersonal trauma in people with learning disability. They hoped to explore the relationship between such trauma and psychological distress and to describe a psychotherapeutic intervention for such people. The findings from a review of the literature suggested an inverse relationship [read the full story…]

Early orthodontic treatment did not affect the incidence of incisor injury.

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Prominent anterior teeth are considered to be a risk factor for trauma. The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence and incidence of incisor trauma in subjects who participated in a randomized clinical trial designed to investigate early growth modifications in the treatment of Class II malocclusion. In this trial patients were randomised [read the full story…]

Review finds no consistent definition of trauma and no reliable means of measuring its effects in people with learning disabilities.

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This systematic review looks at the literature on the effects of adverse life events or trauma on people with intellectual disabilities. The authors point out that there is a limited number of studies in this area and that effects of trauma seen in the general population literature are not necessarily transferable to the intellectual disability [read the full story…]