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Intellectual disabilities: a systemic approach
- Editors:
- BAUM Sandra, LYNGGAARD Henrik, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Karnac
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 228p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The application of systemic ideas and principles in working with people with intellectual disabilities, their families and their service systems, has grown over the last decade in the UK. This book, for the first time, brings together the writings of a group of practitioners who have been using this approach in their clinical practice. It is hoped it will inspire others to try out different ways of working with people with intellectual disabilities and their wider systems, so that they can have the choice of a wide range of therapeutic approaches. It is also hoped that systemic practitioners who are unfamiliar with this client group might give consideration to extend their practice to also work with people with intellectual disabilities.
Systemic empathy with adults affected by intellectual disabilities and their families
- Authors:
- WEBB-PEPLOE Hilly, FREDMAN Glenda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Family Therapy, 37(2), 2015, pp.228-245.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article explores how therapists might bring forth and value the voice of the person with intellectual disabilities alongside the voice of their family and carers so that all those present can feel understood and appreciated. The authors offer a description of systemic empathy as the ability to connect with one person while maintaining the possibility of connecting with other individuals in the system and at the same time tuning in to those people's connections with each other. Examples from practice are shared that challenge the ability to work empathically when there are several people in the same room holding different or opposing perspectives and who evoke different emotional reactions in practitioners. Principles and practices are offered through which they have been able to make empathy systemic with examples from their work with adults with intellectual disabilities and their families. These include empathising through curiosity and irreverence, co-creating meanings with more than one person, double listening with ears, eyes and bodies, preparing our own emotional postures, taking the perspectives of others and creating reflecting processes. (Edited publisher abstract)
Multiple family groups: an alternative for reducing disruptive behavioral difficulties of urban children
- Authors:
- MCKAY Mary M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 9(5), September 1999, pp.593-607.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Presents an evaluation of a multiple family group (MFG) intervention designed to meet the mental health needs of low-income minority children and families. Comparisons were made with children who received MFG and those receiving individual or family therapy services. Follow up interviews revealed that seventy percent of MFG parents noted child improvements, in comparison to fifty four percent of parents whose children received individual family therapy.
Mental health and deafness
- Editors:
- HINDLEY Peter, KITSON Nick
- Publisher:
- Whurr
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 582p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Designed as an introductory text on mental health and deafness for care workers and mental health workers. Covers a wide range of mental health issues as they relate to deafness and is divided into two sections. The first, Assessment, includes topics such as child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, children who are deaf and have multiple disabilities, deafness and learning disability, addictive behaviour and deafness, forensic psychiatry, acquired deafness, and abuse of deaf children. The second section, Management and Intervention, discusses interpreters in mental health settings, educational interventions, different forms of psychotherapy, family therapy, rehabilitation, and drug treatments.