Cognitive-behaviour therapy for people with learning disabilities

"The book contains contributions from highly experienced practitioner-researchers, who offer an informed approach to cognitively based treatments for a wide range of clinical problems. Since cognitive therapy is usually understood to be language based, the communication difficulties associated with this population make its use a challenging and fascinating topic. Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy for People with Learning Disabilities provides a wealth of practical examples for training and will be invaluable to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and all researchers and practitioners who work with people with learning disabilities."
"Cognitive therapy is a well known and widely used means of helping depressed patients, but is only just beginning to be extended to other client groups. This volume discusses the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the application of cognitive therapy to this special client group. Since cognitive therapy is usually understood to consist mainly of talking and introspection, the communication difficulties, challenging behaviours and the whole question of self-regulation make CBT for learning disabled people an interesting topic. A range of practical examples for training are included which should be useful to clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, and researchers and practitioners who deal with learning disabled people in their daily lives."