Integrative Relational Psychotherapy in the field of Intellectual Disability

Abstract

In the field of the intellectual disability, psychotherapeutic intervention is not completely well characterized. Cognitive style, language limitations, communication difficulties and stereotypes around the intellectual disability are among the main causes that do not facilitate the study and application of psychotherapy. This article represents an attempt to use Integrative Relational Physiotherapy (IRP) based on the evolutive development as a tool to study and treat the intellectual disability. In order to present part of the theory, philosophy and intervention method of this IRP model, several clinical cases are presented.