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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
people with mental disabilities.
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.
Form Electronic book
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Author Simpson, David, Dr.
Miller, Lynda
ISBN 9781849404532
1849404534