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Title Unexpected gains : psychotherapy with people with learning disabilities / edited by David Simpson & Lynda Miller
Published London ; New York : Karnac Books, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 205 pages) : illustrations
Series Tavistock Clinic series
Tavistock Clinic series.
Contents The psychotherapy of a little girl with a severe learning disability and a history of deprivation and neglect / Maria Kakogianni -- Therapeutic dilemmas when working with a group of children with physical and learning disabilities / Sally Hodges, Nancy Sheppard -- Some thoughts on psychotherapeutic work with learning-disabled children and their parents from orthodox religious communities / Judith Usiskin -- Facing the damage together: some reflections arising from the treatment in psychotherapy of a severely mentally handicapped child / Louise Emanuel -- Learning disability as a refuge from knowledge / David Simpson -- Adolescents with learning disabilities: psychic structures that are not conducive to learning / Lynda Miller -- The creative use of limited language in psychotherapy by an adolescent with a severe learning disability / Annie Baikie -- The question of a third space in psychotherapy with adults with learning disabilities / Pauline Lee, Sadegh Nashat -- When there is too much to take in: some factors that restrict the capacity to think / Elisa Reyes-Simpson -- An exploration of severe learning disability in adults and the study of early interaction / Lydia Hartland-Rowe -- The endings of relationships between people with learning disabilities and their keyworkers / Victoria Mattison, Nancy Pistrang -- Ensuring a high-quality service: clinical audit, quality assurance, and outcome research in the Tavistock Clinic Learning Disabilities Service / Nancy Sheppard, Sally Hodges, Marta Cioeta
Summary Psychoanalytic psychotherapy is a fairly recent development in the treatment of people with both learning difficulties and mental health problems. This volume collects together a wide variety of papers by members of staff of the Learning Difficulties Service at the Tavistock Clinic in London
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Psychotherapy.
Child psychotherapy.
Learning disabled.
Learning disabled children.
People with mental disabilities
Children.
Learning Disabilities -- therapy
Child
Mentally Ill Persons -- psychology
Psychotherapy -- methods
Persons with Mental Disabilities
mentally handicapped.
children (people by age group)
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- General.
Children
Child psychotherapy
Learning disabled
Learning disabled children
People with mental disabilities
Psychotherapy
Lernbehinderung
Psychische Störung
Psychotherapie
Geistige Behinderung
Leermoeilijkheden.
Psychotherapie.
Kinderpsychotherapie.
Lernbehinderter.
Lernbehindertes Kind.
Lernstörung.
Psychotherapie.
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Simpson, David, Dr.
Miller, Lynda
ISBN 9781849404532
1849404534