1st Edition

Disability Psychotherapy An Innovative Approach to Trauma-Informed Care

By Patricia Frankish Copyright 2016
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Much has been written about cognitive development in those who are cognitively impaired. Much is written about attachment for people who don't have disabilities. Yet people with disabilities have suffered discrimination and neglect of their emotional needs, perhaps because the pain of difference cannot be tolerated, perhaps because of lack of will or lack of knowledge. This book aims to help to... Read more
Preface , Winnicott , Bowlby , Margaret Mahler , Measuring the emotional development of intellectually disabled adults , Other influences , Designing interventions , The house-tree-person test , Using the object relations technique with people with intellectual disabilities , Comprehensive assessment of the individual , Evaluation of the impact of the systemic model of trauma-informed care , Evaluation of the impact of individual psychotherapy , Comparison with other therapeutic models , Future use of the model

Biography

Patricia Frankish