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Disability, counselling and psychotherapy: challenges and opportunities
- Author:
- WILSON Shula
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 144p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Whilst much progress has been made in the range of practical solutions available for the physical limitations of the disabled person and great strides have been taken towards equality of opportunity, scant attention has been paid to the felt experience of the disabled person and the ways in which psychotherapy may be constructively employed. This book directly addresses this gap and, taking a life-span perspective and a psychoanalytic approach, actively explores the challenges and opportunities of disability to psychotherapy, the caring professions and, more widely, to society.
Teaching memory management skills
- Authors:
- BLAKE Noelle, HIND Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, 12(5), June 2001, pp.32-34.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Memory groups have been run for many years in rehabilitation settings for people who have acquired neurological disabilities. The authors describe how they combined their skills and interest in the field of disability to develop and run a memory group for participants in a community setting.
Providing medical evaluations for possible child maltreatment to children with special health care needs
- Authors:
- GIARDINO Angelo P., HUDSON Karen M., MARSH Judith
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 27(10), October 2003, pp.1179-1186.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Children with special health care needs are known to be at increased risk of all forms of child maltreatment when compared to children without such needs. The authors describe a health care team's experience providing medical evaluations for suspected child maltreatment to children with special health care needs. Consecutive cases seen as outpatients in the Abuse Referral Clinic for Children with Disabilities were abstracted and analyzed. Mail and telephone follow-up contact was attempted after the medical evaluation to determine adherence with treatment recommendations. A subsample of cases for which complete financial information was available was reviewed to determine a reimbursement rate. During the study, 49 children received complete outpatient evaluations. Ages ranged from 3 to 16 years old, and 54% were males. Special needs spanned a wide range of physical, developmental/cognitive and behavioral conditions. The largest number of referrals came from child protective services (42%) followed by referrals from physicians (27%). After the team's comprehensive evaluation, 18% of the children were found to have a history or physical examination that was diagnostic for child maltreatment, 13% were thought to be at high risk, 25% were thought to be at low risk and 44% were thought to have non-abusive etiologies. The collection rate was 14% for an average reimbursement of $38 per case. Only 29 caregivers could be found at follow-up and 22 remembered the recommendations made by the team. Of the 25 cases that were referred for outpatient mental health counseling, 12 (48%) complied. Children with a wide range of special health care needs were evaluated in an outpatient special health care needs clinic that offered comprehensive medical evaluations for possible child maltreatment. Medical evaluation services for this group of children were poorly reimbursed. Mental health services were frequently recommended but often not accessed. Child maltreatment teams seeking to serve children with special health care needs will need to plan for service delivery to a potentially diverse group of children and families who may experience difficulty in carrying through on the team's treatment recommendations.
The therapeutic use of stories
- Editor:
- DWIVEDI Kedar Nath
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 254p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at how counsellors, therapists, psychotherapists and other practitioners can tap into the healing powers of well-known myths and stories. Includes papers on: historical backdrop; theoretical perspectives and clinical approaches; maps and meaning in life and healing; psychotherapeutic paradigms from Indian mythology; management of anger and some Eastern stories; an illustrative case study of childhood anxiety using metaphor and imagery; stories associated with shame and guilt in therapy; splitting, envy, jealousy and rivalry; separation, loss and bereavement; stories used therapeutically with children in educational settings; stories in the context of family therapy; the use of stories to help children who have been abused; stories for disabled children; and stories and life stories in therapy with older adults.