Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 7 Issue 5

Thirty years of disability psychotherapy, a paradigm shift?

Pat Frankish

– This paper charts the development and practice of disability psychotherapy for the author and for services.

The core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method: testing with adult offenders who have intellectual and developmental disabilities

Simon Scott Hackett, Jill Porter, John L. Taylor

The aim of this paper is to investigate the feasibility of using the core conflictual relationship theme (CCRT) method, used to assess relationship patterns and interpersonal…

Measuring the emotional development of adults with ID

Pat Frankish

– This paper demonstrates that it is both possible and useful to measure the emotional developmental stage of people with intellectual disability.

Service user satisfaction with individual psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities

Mahbub Munir Khan, Nigel Beail

Psychological therapies are increasingly being made available to adults with intellectual disabilities. However, little is known about service user satisfaction with this type of…

Cognitive behavioural therapy for anxiety in a man with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, and social phobia

Kevin Paul Wright

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) in the treatment of social anxiety with a 19-year-old man with intellectual disabilities (ID) and…

From denial to acceptance of sexually offending behaviour: a psychodynamic approach

Nigel Beail

Offenders who have intellectual disabilities like any one else may deny their offence. This paper reports a case study of a man who admitted his offence and them accepted…

Effectiveness of brief training in cognitive-behaviour therapy techniques for staff working with people with intellectual disabilities

Karen Dodd, Katie Austin, Laura Baxter, Jo Jennison, Mark Kenny, Tessa Lippold, Alexandra Livesey, Julie Lloyd, Julie Anne Nixon, Zillah Webb, Esther Wilcox

There is little research addressing the delivery of training for health professionals who are interested in using cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) techniques as an adjunct to…

The use of mechanical restraint with people who engage in severe self-injurious behaviour: impact on support staff

Nicola Bethel, Nigel Beail

There continues to be a small group of people who have intellectual disabilities who need some form of restraint in their support plan due to their self-injurious behaviour. The…

Psychotherapy for Individuals with Intellectual Disability

Nigel Beail

Psychological therapies and interventions

New report on psychological therapies and people who have intellectual disabilities