1st Edition
Psychologists with Lived Experience of Disability Navigating Clinical Practice
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
From the heart: Using my lifelong heart condition to inform advocacy, research and practice in Counselling Psychology
Dr Liza Morton
CHAPTER TWO
Psychologists’ management of fluctuating conditions without clear biomarkers
Dr Alice Kennedy
CHAPTER THREE
Living and Working as a System: Complex Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Psychology
Dr Sam Fletcher
CHAPTER FOUR
The embodied therapist – meaning-making with Merleau-Ponty
Dr Helen Molden
CHAPTER FIVE
The influence of early script development on the experience of disability as a counselling psychologist: a Transactional Analysis Framework
Dr Susan Jacques
CHAPTER SIX
Seeing an autistic psychologist in the mirror: an attachment perspective on autistic identity and experience
Dr Emma Bede
CHAPTER SEVEN
Bridging Two Worlds: Lived Experience and Clinical Psychology in Healthcare Settings
Dr Sophie Gwinnett
CHAPTER EIGHT
Recognizing the Value of One’s Expertise and Experience: A Forensic Psychologist’s Journey with both Physical and Psychological Disability.
Dr Veronica Solaris
CHAPTER NINE
Using the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Matrix to explore behaviours related to a complex physical health diagnosis
Dr Dawn Johnson
CHAPTER TEN
The Invisible Struggle: Reflecting on living with Dyslexia, Navigating Shame and Cultivating Self-Compassion
Dr Debra Ford
CHAPTER ELEVEN
In the Kingdom of the Blind, the one-eyed man is …Disabled. A Social Constructionist personal and professional journey.
Dr Stephanie Jones
CHAPTER TWELVE
Working with a Tricky Brain: A Compassion-Focussed Exploration of Disability in Occupational Health
Dr Amy Millar
INDEX
Biography
Susan Jacques is an integrative counselling psychologist who has worked in the NHS for over 15 years. She now has her own private practice and works with both adults and young people specializing in the impact that disability and long-term health conditions can have on mental health. Susan identifies as having a disability and is passionate about giving voices to those with lived experience of disability.
