Full Description
This book came about from the authors' experience working together in clinical learning disabilities services, and their work to move the focus away from the management of challenging behaviour and towards a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach to caring. It will introduce some of the key theories that have informed our understanding of the emotional development of people with intellectual disabilities and the importance of receiving love from an attachment figure from a young age, followed by case studies that focus on the lives of particular individuals - sometimes presented as individual therapy sessions and sometimes an overview of progress across many sessions. Whilst it describes work done by a psychology team in community health services, it is relevant to all health and social care professionals who help people with intellectual disabilities, as well as useful for advocates, service commissioners, families and healthcare generalists.
Contents
Foreword: Professor Nigel Beail
Preface
Chapter 1: Why this book is needed
Chapter 2: Klein, Bowlby, Mahler & Dosen:
Theories of our need for love
Chapters 3 - 16: Individual case studies
Chapter 17: The Team: We're flagging
Chapter 18: What the science says: Dismissing attachment does not stand
Chapter 19: Putting love at the heart of care services
