How to Treat Patients with Severe Intellectual Disabilities in Psychiatry?

Many adults with intellectual disabilities have serious behavioral problems, sometimes requiring medical intervention. To this end, it is essential to improve the medical care of this population because there is a very large disparity in the care offered to them compared to the general population. Challenging behaviors constitute a real challenge in supporting people with severe intellectual disabilities, which can cause great difficulty for individuals, institutions and psychiatric services. These crisis situations are usually underpinned by numerous factors (somatic, psychiatric, educational and environmental). This paper tries to give pathways to treat patients with severe intellectual disabilities in psychiatry.