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Klappentext This thought-provoking book shows how psychotherapy can be an important and empowering resource for a client group that has frequently been denied such services - mentally handicapped people. The contributors discuss a range of therapeutic approaches, including group analytic therapy and transactional analysis, within this context. They also examine specific issues such as countertransference with mentally handicapped clients, understanding secondary mental handicap as a defence against trauma, group work around the stigmatized identity of being a handicapped person, reminiscence as a way of helping clients address the personal implications of moving from an institutional setting `into the community' and work with families with mentally handicapped children. Zusammenfassung Explores the use and effects of psychotherapy with the mentally handicapped. The theory! practice and techniques of a range of individual or group therapeutic approaches for different circumstances are outlined. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Chris Cullen Introduction - Suzanne Conboy-Hill and Alexis Waitman The Birth of a Child with a Mental Handicap - Hedy Ditchfield Coping with Loss Psychotherapy with the Siblings of Mentally Handicapped Children - Robert Wilkins Secondary Mental Handicap as a Defence - Jon Stokes and Valerie Sinason Coming to Terms with Learning Difficulties - Sue Szivos and Eileen Griffiths The Effects of Groupwork and Group Processes on Stigmatised Identity Psychotherapy with People with Learning Difficulties - Rosalind Bates Transactional Analysis as a Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour and a Psychotherapeutic Model - Joanna Beazley-Richards The Deviancy Career and People with a Mental Handicap - Joan Bicknell and Suzanne Conboy-Hill Countertransference with Mentally Handicapped Clients - Neville Symington Group Analytic Therapy for People with a Mental Handicap - Sheila Hollins Grief, Loss and People with Learning Disabilities - Suzanne Conboy-Hill Sharing Memories - Helen Fensome The Role of Reminiscence in Managing Transition Working with Staff around Sexuality and Power - Hilary Brown Demystifying Traditional Approaches to Counselling and Psychotherapy - Alexis Waitman (with Fran[cd]cois Reynolds) ...
