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Thirty years of disability psychotherapy, a paradigm shift?
- Author:
- FRANKISH Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 7(5), 2013, pp.257-262.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: This paper charts the development and practice of disability psychotherapy for the author and for services. Design/methodology/approach: A personal account relating events to the development of thinking and practice. Findings: The author suggests that a paradigm shift has occurred over the 30 years to a position of “doing with” as opposed to “doing to”. Originality/value: This has not previously been put forward as a way of understanding present day services. (Publisher abstract)
Measuring the emotional development of adults with ID
- Author:
- FRANKISH Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, 7(5), 2013, pp.272-276.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: This paper demonstrates that it is both possible and useful to measure the emotional developmental stage of people with intellectual disability. Design/methodology/approach: A tool was designed, based on a stage theory of development and tested for reliability and validity. Findings: The tool was found to be both reliable and valid. Originality/value: This is new work with no predecessor. (Publisher abstract)
The challenge of the environment
- Author:
- FRANKISH Pat
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 2(1), July 1988, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Challenging behaviour can be reduced by better communication and a therapeutic environment.
Modern therapeutic approaches in learning disability services
- Authors:
- FRANKISH Pat, TERRY Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 8(3), July 2003, pp.3-10.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Provides a brief summary of recent literature, to outline the main areas of therapeutic developments in recent years in the field of learning disability. Most of the approaches are person centred, even if provided in a group setting. Cognitive, psychodynamic and creative therapies have been added to behaviour therapy, with good results, indicating the potential of learning-disabled people to benefit from the same sorts of therapy as other people.