Unexpected Gains: Psychotherapy with People with Learning Disabilities

ISBN-13: 9780367107383 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

David Simpson; Lynda Miller

Opis

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a new development in the treatment of people with learning disabilities and mental health problems, which traditionally has utilised behavioural management and limited counselling.

Spis treści

Series Editor’s Preface , Introduction , Unexpected Gains , The psychotherapy of a little girl with a severe learning disability and a history of deprivation and neglect , Therapeutic dilemmas when working with a group of children with physical and learning disabilities , Some thoughts on psychotherapeutic work with learning-disabled children and their parents from orthodox religious communities , Facing the damage together: some reflections arising from the treatment in psychotherapy of a severely mentally handicapped child , Learning disability as a refuge from knowledge , Adolescents with learning disabilities: psychic structures that are not conducive to learning , The creative use of limited language in psychotherapy by an adolescent with a severe learning disability , The question of a third space in psychotherapy with adults with learning disabilities , When there is too much to take in: some factors that restrict the capacity to think , An exploration of severe learning disability in adults and the study of early interaction , The endings of relationships between people with learning disabilities and their keyworkers , Ensuring a high-quality service: clinical audit, quality assurance, and outcome research in the Tavistock Clinic Learning Disabilities Service

O autorze

Lynda Miller