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Mutual respect: therapeutic approaches to working with people who have learning difficulties
- Editor:
- BRANDON David
- Publisher:
- Good Impressions Publishing
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 109p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
An introductory primer to help people who wish to counsel people with learning difficulties. Covers the Kleinian approach; art and music therapy; meditation; Mahler's theory of psychological birth.
Dependence: a means for an impediment to growth?
- Author:
- TAIT Marlene
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 25(1), February 1997, pp.17-26.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
It is widely claimed that locus of control represents an important focus for the counselling of children with learning and/or behaviour difficulties. But the concept is widely misunderstood and often confused with other important control-related constructs. The meaning of a number of key constructs is clarified. An approach to counselling is advocated which recognises the heuristic and therapeutic value of employing these in a discrete, yet integrated fashion.
Loss and learning disability
- Author:
- BLACKMAN Noelle
- Publisher:
- Worth
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 180p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The emotional life of people with learning disabilities is a subject that has only begun to be thought about during the last decade. This book addresses the central issue of how people with learning disabilities can be affected by bereavement. It includes pro-active strategies to prevent grief complications, and therapeutic interventions for helping people when the grief process "goes wrong".
Outcome of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy with people with intellectual disabilities: a review
- Author:
- BEAIL Nigel
- Journal article citation:
- Changes an International Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy, 13(3), 1995, pp.186-191.
There is a small but growing literature in the area of psychotherapy with people with intellectual disabilities. This literature does not reflect an equivalent growth in psychotherapy practice and tends to focus on process rather than outcome. Article suggests that further outcome research is necessary to help avoid a continuation of the psychotherapeutic neglect of people with intellectual disabilities.