Healing Trauma: The Power of Group Treatment for People With Intellectual Disabilities

Authors: Nancy J. Razza and Daniel I. Tornasulo

Description:

Healing Trauma: The Power of Group Treatment for People With Intellectual Disabilities is a compassionate, informative guide to group therapy for an often neglected population. People with intellectual disabilities suffer higher than average rates of trauma, sexual abuse, and psychopathology, but many formidable obstacles have impeded accurate diagnoses and treatments for members of this population.

Choosing group treatment as the most effective intervention, the authors describe interactive—behavioral therapy (JBT), based heavily on traditional models of group therapy and psychodrama and modified to enhance the possibility for change in people with intellectual disabilities. In IBT, member-to-member interactions are regarded as a priority for learning, as the group therapy format allows for a controlled connection with others in which each individual’s style of interrelating can be examined and altered. The special considerations and needs of group treatment for trauma and sexual abuse survivors and offenders with intellectual disabilities arc covered in equal measure, and information is offered about how the application of the IBT model can be used in sexual abuse avoidance training. A related model of individual treatment is detailed along with ways in which the clinician can make informed decisions concerning the most effective course of treatment for a given individual outside of group treatment.

In heartfelt and instructive language, the authors make an effective case for the powerful gains that can be attained by psychotherapy for people with intellectual disabilities. This book will be an invaluable resource for clinicians and other helping professionals who work with them.

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225 pages Printed 2006 ISBN 1-59147-160-5

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Introduction to Psychotherapeutic Work With People With Intellectual Disabilities

Chapter 1. An Introductory Tale: The Case of Martina

Chapter 2. What the Literature Tells Us

II. The Interactive—Behavioral Therapy Model and Its Applications

Chapter 3. The Interactive—Behavioral Therapy Model of Group Psychotherapy

Chapter 4. Group Treatment for Trauma and Sexual Abuse Survivors With Intellectual Disabilities

Chapter 5. Group Treatment for Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities

Chapter 6. Sexual Abuse Avoidance Training

III. Treatment: Modalities, Processes, Initiation, and Termination

Chapter 7. The Initial Interview

Chapter 8.  Individual Treatment: Techniques and Rationale 

Chapter 9. Group Process iii Depth: Inevitable Trouble Spots and Opportunities for Growth

Chapter 10. Termination

Chapter 11. Endings and Beginnings

References

Index

About the Authors

Media: Book

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