Abstract
People with intellectual disability in addition to having an IQ lower than normal are with the disorder in adaptive behavior. Adolescence is especially important for girls and boys with intellectual disability and is one of the important issues in the period for these people is thematurity issue is known as the crisis and followed by mental, behavioral and sexual problems for them. The aim of this study was to investigate the crisis of puberty and mental health, sexual and behavior problems in girls mentally retarded and providingeffective ways to deal with these problems. Forthis reason, to take advantage of descriptive-documentalmethod and review necessary information scientific literature in the field of adolescence crisis and related problems in girlswith intellectual disability have been collected. Most findings indicate an increase in the prevalence of mental and behavioral disorders in mentally retarded adolescents is during puberty. The most important mental and behavioral disorders in adolescence and maturity in people with mental retardation are: mood disorders, depression disorders, Psychotic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, attention deficit disorders. The research also
Highlights
Adolescence is one of a long period of life with rapid growth and changes in cognitive, emotional, social and physical
The puberty is the maturity period and in this period primary and secondary sex characteristics develop and will have functionality, and these changes in individuals with intellectual disability is considered as an important occurrence, and most families are faced with a crisis and makes a variety of chocolate (Massey, 2000)
The tools used in the study was Robert Hutton’s scale of dimension of social and emotional, the scores obtained on each scale suggested that the prevalence of behavioral problems was in maturity and in scales of avoidance of interactions with friends, engage with aggression, avoidance of interaction with the teacher, inappropriate behavior, reactions indicative of depression and physical awesome reactions, mental retardation achieved higher scores (Liu, 2000)
Summary
Adolescence is one of a long period of life with rapid growth and changes in cognitive, emotional, social and physical. Puberty is origin of many variations on the individual and physical changes of puberty has the strong effect on the psychological, behavioral, social and mental of the people and change emotional and psychological tendencies, which is why the rate of prevalence of behavioral disorders like anxiety, aggression, sexual problems and delinquencyare increased in this period (Ahadi & Mohseni, 1999). Mental retardation is such the phenomenon that getting it makes a lot of problems for the patient and his family. According to the above subjects, the articleintended to examine the crisis of puberty and mental health, sexual and behavioral problems in girls with intellectual disability and provide effective solutions to deal with these problems by descriptive –documental way and search in the existing literature and valid
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