Key references: Posttraumatic stress disorder in people with developmental disability

  • Hall JC, Jobson L, Langdon PE. Measuring symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in people with intellectual disabilities: the development and psychometric properties of the Impact of Event Scale-Intellectual Disabilities (IES-IDs). Br J Clin Psychol 2014;53(3):315–32. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24684206
  • Jowett S, Karatzias T, Brown M, Grieve A, Paterson D, Walley R. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults with intellectual disabilities: A case study review. Psychol Trauma 2016;8(6):709–19. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27077491
  • Mevissen L, Lievegoed R, Seubert A, De Jongh A. Treatment of PTSD in people with severe intellectual disabilities: a case series. Dev Neurorehabil 2012;15(3):223–32. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22582854
  • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Post-traumatic stress disorder [NG116]. London: NICE; 2018. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng116