Intellectual Disabilities: A Systemic Approach

by Sandra Baum (Editor), Henrik Lynggaard (Editor)

Overview

The application of systemic ideas and principles in working with people with intellectual disabilities, their families and their service systems, has grown over the last decade in the UK. This book, for the first time, brings together the writings of a group of practitioners who have been using this approach in their clinical practice. It is hoped it will inspire others to try out different ways of working with people with intellectual disabilities and their wider systems, so that they can have the choice of a wide range of therapeutic approaches. It is also hoped that systemic practitioners who are unfamiliar with this client group might give consideration to extend their practice to also work with people with intellectual disabilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780495101
Publisher:	Karnac Books
Publication date:	12/31/2006
Series:	Systemic Thinking and Practice Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	535 KB

About the Author

Sandra Baum is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Newham Primary Care NHS Trust. She has a post-graduate certificate in systems approaches to families and organisations from the Tavistock Centre. Her clinical work and research interests focus on using systemic approaches with families and staff teams, and on improving services for parents with intellectual disabilities.
Henrik Lynggaard is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Trust in London and is currently completing his systemic psychotherapy training at KCC. He was born and brought up in Denmark but has trained and worked mainly in the UK, where he has developed a strong interest in adapting systemic and narrative approaches in his conversations with people with intellectual disabilities.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword     vii
Acknowledgements     ix
About the Editors and Contributors     xi
Foreword   Tom Andersen     xv
Introduction     xix
Working systemically with intellectual disability: why not?   Glenda Fredman     1
The use of the systemic approach to adults with intellectual disabilities and their families: historical overview and current research   Sandra Baum     21
Lifespan family therapy services   Sabrina Halliday   Lorna Robbins     42
Setting up and evaluating a family therapy service in a community team for people with intellectual disabilities   Sandra Baum   Sarah Walden     64
Engaging people with intellectual disabilities in systemic therapy   Denise Cardone   Amanda Hilton     83
New stories of intellectual disabilities: a narrative approach   Katrina Scior   Henrik Lynggaard     100
Supporting transitions   Jennifer Clegg   Susan King     120
Who needs to change? Using systemic ideas when working in group homes   Selma Rikberg Smyly     142
The practitioner's position in relation to systemic work in intellectual disability contexts   Helen Pote     164
So how do I...?   Henrik Lynggaard   Sandra Baum     185
References     203
Index     221

Editorial Reviews

This book feels like a big step toward solidarity. It is freeing that the book carefully turns our usual descriptions of 'them' to describing and including 'us'. Yes, this is a book of inclusion and it holds the ambition that all those who have not had speaking voices and therefore not been heard, now shall be given that possibility.

Tom Andersen

This book feels like a big step toward solidarity. It is freeing that the book carefully turns our usual descriptions of 'them' to describing and including 'us'. Yes, this is a book of inclusion and it holds the ambition that all those who have not had speaking voices and therefore not been heard, now shall be given that possibility.

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