Adolescent with mental disability: approach to sexual aspects

Abstract

There are still prejudices surrounding the sexuality of adolescents with mental disabilities. Many people consider it to be exacerbated, while others believe that they are deprived of sexuality. Adolescents with mental disabilities develop their sexuality like any other adolescent, although some present a sexual expression considered socially inadequate. Knowing that this behavior occurs due to the little information that these adolescents and their parents have, the medical consultation becomes an excellent space to discuss the subject, informing about the attitudes of parents that can contribute to giving their children more autonomy, in order to make them more independent in social relationships, thus favoring the development of their sexuality to occur in a more satisfactory way.