Cognitive Analytic Therapy for People With Intellectual Disabilities and Their Carers

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) was initially developed in Great Britain's National Health Service (NHS) as a way of working with people that were hard to help. It has since added a dialogic model and incorporated the concept of the Zone of Proximal Development. This work further expands its application to work with clients with intellectual disabilities such as autism, or other difficult factors, including personality disorder, past offending behavior, and a history of domestic abuse. All of the examples come from cases in the United Kingdom. Contributions are grouped into the following three parts: Overview of Cognitive Analytic Therapy and People with Intellectual Disabilities, Using Cognitive Analytic Therapy in the Community, and Using Cognitive Analytic Therapy in Forensics The volume closes with a seven page glossary, along with 13 appendixes providing things like sample psychotherapy files, questionnaires, sequential diagrammatic reformulations, and reformulation and goodbye letters. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Julie Lloyd qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 1983 and has specialised in working with people with intellectual disabilities for nearly 30 years. She is a Cognitive Analytic Therapist and co-editor of 'Reformulation', the journal of the Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT). She is employed at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS in a community learning disability team and at Southern Health NHS Trust in a psychiatric intensive care hospital unit. Philip Clayton qualified as a nurse in intellectual disabilities and mental health over 30 years ago. He is now a Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist and specialises in working with offenders with intellectual disabilities at Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Lancashire.