Main description:

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.

Contents:

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
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 Psychotherapy
Chapter 15 Some concluding comments; acknowledge, identify and intervene