The impact of the type of residential living situation and the mental health on behavior in the intellectual disabilities

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Published: Jun 25, 2015
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2015.n1.v2.36
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mental health adaptive behavior behavioral problems individual functioning

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Begoña Medina Gómez
Universidad de Burgos
María Isabel García Alonso
Universidad de Burgos
Elvira Mercado Val
Universidad de Burgos

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This paper describes the analysis of how the type of residential living situation and the type of mental health influence adaptive and non-adaptive behaviors of people with intellectual disabilities. The study was conducted with 188 adults, aged between 23 and 69, with disabilities, who were living in a public institution, Fundación Aspanias (Burgos).The analysis was based on the inventory for the Services Planning and the Individual Programming, ICAP (Bruinink, et al., 1986; Montero, 1993) which includes scales for the evaluation of adaptive behavior and behavioral problems. Results suggest that people who live in supervised apartments have more personal and community skills than those who live with their family or in public institutions. Also, those living in public institutions present more non-adaptive behaviors than those living in communities. In general, the presence of a single mental illness does not seem to affect either the adaptive behavior nor the non-adaptive behavior, but mental illness does affect these behaviors when there are more than two diagnoses because of major behavioral problems.

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Medina Gómez, B., García Alonso, M. I., & Mercado Val, E. (2015). The impact of the type of residential living situation and the mental health on behavior in the intellectual disabilities. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 355–364. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2015.n1.v2.36
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2015): A NEW VISION OF PSYCHOLOGY: THE ADULT WORLD.
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Author Biographies

Begoña Medina Gómez, Universidad de Burgos

Departamento Ciencias de la Educación. Área de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológicos Profesora Audante Doctora

María Isabel García Alonso, Universidad de Burgos

Departamento de Ciencias de La Salud 

PTUN

Elvira Mercado Val, Universidad de Burgos

Departamento Ciencias de la Educación

Asociada Doctora

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