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A deviation too many? Healthcare professionals' knowledge and attitudes concerning patients with intellectual disability disrupting norms regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity.

Susanna SommaröAgneta AnderssonJanna Skagerström
Published in: Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID (2020)
Norm-breaking sexuality and gender identity are still relatively invisible in habilitation centres. People with ID are still predominately desexualized and perceptions regarding their sexuality are lagging behind the rest of society. Conditions that allow for more LGBTQ-affirmative practice were described by the teams that have undergone LGBTQ training.
Keyphrases
  • intellectual disability
  • mental health
  • healthcare
  • autism spectrum disorder
  • primary care
  • virtual reality