Understanding Intensive Interaction
eBook - ePub

Understanding Intensive Interaction

Context and Concepts for Professionals and Families

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Understanding Intensive Interaction

Context and Concepts for Professionals and Families

About this book

Intensive interaction is a valuable approach, with the potential to radically enhance the well-being of difficult-to-reach individuals, such as those with profound and severe learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and emotional problems. This highly accessible book will help families and professionals develop a deeper understanding of this highly-successful approach and its associated issues, resulting in improved communication opportunities within a variety of care, therapeutic and educational settings.
This compendium offers a multidisciplinary perspective to intensive interaction, bringing together the authors' experience and research from different disciplines. A glossary format and thematic structure are employed to enable readers to quickly access topics of interest, and gradually build on their understanding of the approach. Each chapter is devoted to an over-arching concept - including psychological theories of human behaviour, relationship building and maintenance and social inclusion - and illustrated with case studies to support theoretical assertions and offer practical examples of useful techniques.
A useful reference and reflective tool, this book will interest both family and professional carers, support staff, special education teachers, learning disability nurses, social services practitioners, speech and language therapists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, or anyone who is interested in intensive interaction and wants to learn more.

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Yes, you can access Understanding Intensive Interaction by Cath Irvine, Graham Firth, Ruth Berry in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psicologia & Disturbi dello spettro autistico. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 What is Intensive Interaction?
  9. 2 Issues Associated with Personal Characteristics
  10. 3 Issues Associated with Social Inclusion (Being with Someone)
  11. 4 Issues Associated with Human Communication
  12. 5 Relationship Building and Maintenance
  13. 6 Issues Associated with Human Learning (Developmental Issues)
  14. 7 Some Psychological Theories of Human Behaviour
  15. 8 Some Psychological Concepts
  16. 9 Some Issues Associated with the Practicalities of Approach Use
  17. 10 Creating an Interactive Environment
  18. 11 Issues Associated with the Socio-political Environment
  19. 12 Issues Associated with Approach Development and Dissemination
  20. References
  21. Further Reading