Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Intellectual Disabilities
This book examines the influence others have on the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and how this impacts on their psychological well-being. Based on the authors’ clinical experiences of using cognitive behavioural therapy with people who ha
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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Andrew Jahoda • Biza Stenfert Kroese Carol Pert
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Intellectual Disabilities Thinking creatively
Andrew Jahoda Institute of Health and Wellbeing University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK
Biza Stenfert Kroese School of Psychology, University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK
Carol Pert Learning Disabilities Service NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Glasgow, UK
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Preface
The growth of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in recent years for an ever-increasing range of mental health problems has been nothing short of phenomenal, and yet people with intellectual disabilities in the UK and much of the world have missed out probably more than any other disadvantaged group in the population for help from this fast-growing development. Despite some advances, the general mind-set remains that CBT is largely inappropriate for people with intellectual disabilities, who are deemed not to have the capability to benefit from CBT. There is a widespread failure even to acknowledge that t
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