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Disability Psychotherapy explores the growing practice of working psychotherapeutically with people with disabilities.
List of contents
Introduction
Section A: History of Disability Psychotherapy 1. Implications for Training: How did the Principles of Disability Psychotherapy Can Be Integrated Into Mainsteram Psychotherapy Training 2. Three Magnificent Women and One Lovestruck Man: The Professionalisation of Disability Psychotherapy 3. How Working with Disabled People Can Make Us Better Psychotherapists
Section B: Working as a Disability Psychotherapist 4. Du Sei Wie Du about Love and Passion 5. Seeking Custody, Post Custody: Applying Disability Psychotherapy Thinking in the Criminal Justice System 6. The Respond Model of Disability Psychotherapy - The Attachment-Based Systems Approach 7. From Trauma to Creative Integration. Disability Psychotherapy and the Evolution of a Systemic Model of Trauma Treatment for Vulnerable Children and Adults 8. Becoming a Disability Psychotherapist
Section C: Applications of Disability Psychotherapy 9. Understanding the Effects of Trauma in People with Intellectual Disability: Looking at Diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 10. Relationship, Imagination, Justice and Hope: Throughlines in Child Psychotherapy, Trauma, Learning Disability and Social Exclusion 11. Relationship, Imagination, Justice and Hope: Throughlines in Child Psychotherapy, Trauma, Learning Disability and Social exclusion in Search of Eclecticism as a Means to Navigate the Complexities of Disability Psychotherapy 12. Treating Psychosis with Respect 13. Therapy with Dr Alan Corbett Epilogue
About the author
Angelina Veiga, DProf Psych Psych, is a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Adult Psychotherapist, Disability Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, Researcher and Visiting Lecturer. A Disability Psychotherapist for over 20 years, she is a longstanding trustee of the Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability and a founding member of Disability Psychotherapy Ireland.
Valerie Sinason, PhD is a poet, writer, lecturer, largely clinically retired adult psychoanalyst and President of the IPD. Having specialised in disability and trauma for 40 years, she has published or edited 25 books and over 250 papers and chapters. She was given the ISSTD Life Achievement Award in 2017 and the 2022 Innovative Excellent Award from the BPC.
