Dialectical behaviour therapy and adults with an intellectual disability: A literature review

Abstract

▪ We looked at all the research we could find about using dialectical behaviour therapy for people with intellectual disabilities.▪ We found that more and more people are using dialectical behaviour therapy, but they use it in many different ways and for different lengths of time.▪ We also found that they measured how useful it was in lots of different ways too; some researchers did interviews with one person and some researchers gave people with intellectual disabilities or their carers questionnaires to fill in.▪ Everyone agreed that DBT worked well for people with intellectual disabilities, when it was made easier to understand, but we need more research to help us understand how it works best.