Disabling Perversions: Forensic Psychotherapy with People with Intellectual Disabilities (The Forensic Psychotherapy Monograph Series) - Softcover

Corbett, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782201637 ISBN 13: 9781782201632

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The book offers an overview of how to work with some of the most damaged members of society - children and adults with intellectual disabilities who abuse others. Drawing on insight from two decades of clinical work, the author examines how to assess risk and danger in the forensic disability patient, ways of working therapeutically with patients at all ends of the disability spectrum, and how to support members of the patient's network. Combining psychoanalytic, creative, forensic and systemic thinking, the book provides a template for assessing, managing, containing and treating those who present with multiple diagnoses, including cognitive and physical disabilities, mutism, psychiatric disorders and autism. Both group and individual approaches are examined. As our awareness of the incidence of forensic patients who also have disabilities increases, this work is a timely placing of the forensic disability patient onto the clinical agenda, and has a wide application, being of use to clinicians in the private consulting room, the community, the secure setting and the prison.

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Alan Corbett

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782201637
• ISBN 13: 9781782201632
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208