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This book came about from the authors’ experience working together in clinical learning disabilities services, and their work to move the focus away from the management of challenging behaviour and towards a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach to caring. It will introduce some of the key theories that have informed our understanding of the emotional development of people with intellectual disabilities and the importance of receiving love from an attachment figure from a young age, followed by case studies that focus on the lives of particular individuals – sometimes presented as individual therapy sessions and sometimes an overview of progress across many sessions. Whilst it describes work done by a psychology team in community health services, it is relevant to all health and social care professionals who help people with intellectual disabilities, as well as useful for advocates, service commissioners, families and healthcare generalists.

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Foreword: Professor Nigel Beail Preface Chapter 1: Why this book is needed Chapter 2: Klein, Bowlby, Mahler & Došen: Theories of our need for love Chapters 3 – 16: Individual case studies Chapter 17: The Team: We’re flagging Chapter 18: What the science says: Dismissing attachment does not stand Chapter 19: Putting love at the heart of care services

Love, Attachment and Intellectual Disability:

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      Publisher Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
      Published 1 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9781803883243
      978-1803883243
      ISBN-10 1803883243
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      Care of people with specific needs

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book came about from the authors’ experience working together in clinical learning disabilities services, and their work to move the focus away from the management of challenging behaviour and towards a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach to caring. It will introduce some of the key theories that have informed our understanding of the emotional development of people with intellectual disabilities and the importance of receiving love from an attachment figure from a young age, followed by case studies that focus on the lives of particular individuals – sometimes presented as individual therapy sessions and sometimes an overview of progress across many sessions. Whilst it describes work done by a psychology team in community health services, it is relevant to all health and social care professionals who help people with intellectual disabilities, as well as useful for advocates, service commissioners, families and healthcare generalists.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword: Professor Nigel Beail Preface Chapter 1: Why this book is needed Chapter 2: Klein, Bowlby, Mahler & Došen: Theories of our need for love Chapters 3 – 16: Individual case studies Chapter 17: The Team: We’re flagging Chapter 18: What the science says: Dismissing attachment does not stand Chapter 19: Putting love at the heart of care services

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