Trauma and Intellectual Disability

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• Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781803880112
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Medicine

This book is about Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) for people who have intellectual disabilities (ID). The provision of health and social care services is becoming more trauma informed, including in services for people with ID, where the experience of trauma is being increasingly acknowledged. This book addresses a gap in resources to guide those supporting people with ID by showing how services can work in a trauma informed way. Including contributions from authoritative professionals in the field, and a powerful account of abuse from an expert by experience, the book provides an overview of the history which underpins the importance of trauma and TIC, and the impact of trauma on people who have ID. The second part of the book looks at trauma informed services and a growing and diverse range of therapeutic interventions, including positive behavioural support, intensive interaction, cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, dyadic interpersonal psychotherapy, developmental and psychodynamic approaches.

Table of contents

• Editor bios
• Chapter 1: Introduction to Trauma and Intellectual Disability: why this book is needed
• Chapter 2: Please stop people going through what I went through – and am still going through
• Chapter 3: The history of disability is a history of trauma
• Chapter 4: Freud, psychoanalysis, and trauma: significance in the acknowledgement and identification of trauma in the lives of people who have intellectual disabilities
• Chapter 5: Early development affected by early trauma
• Chapter 6: Finding out about trauma in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities; and what to do about it
• Chapter 7: Trauma-informed care in a service-related context
• Chapter 8: Providing emotionally aware care in the positive behavioural support framework
• Chapter 9: The use of Intensive Interaction in trauma-informed care for people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities
• Chapter 10: Adapting dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) to support adults with an intellectual disability who experience complex developmental trauma
• Chapter 11: Trauma-informed psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Chapter 12: Interventions based on the Mahler model of emotional development
• Chapter 13: Insults and spears: the tribulations of forensic disability psychotherapy
• Chapter 14: Trauma-informed cognitive behavioural therapy
• Chapter 15: Some concluding comments: acknowledge, identify and intervene