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The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades of clinical work, the author examines how to assess risk and danger in the forensic disability patient, ways of working therapeutically with patients.
List of contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSABOUT THE AUTHORSERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD by Brett KahrCHAPTER ONE Disabling perversion: building a theory of forensic disability therapyCHAPTER TWO Mapping the unknown world: a narrative approach to risk assessmentCHAPTER THREE When I grow up I want to have sex: working with children and young adultsCHAPTER FOUR Speak no evil: the role of creative therapies in working with severe disabilityCHAPTER FIVE The disability transference: transference and countertransference issuesCHAPTER SIX Grieving the imagined baby: on working with families of forensic disability patientsCHAPTER SEVEN Sex as an SOS: group analytic perspectivesCHAPTER EIGHT The disabled organisation: on supervision and consultationCHAPTER NINE On saying I don't know: expedient disabilities and mind envyREFERENCESINDEX
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Alan Corbett
Summary
The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades of clinical work, the author examines how to assess risk and danger in the forensic disability patient, ways of working therapeutically with patients.
