Understanding and working with people with learning disabilities who self-injure

By: Heslop, Pauline.

Contributor(s): Lovell, Andrew.

Publisher: London Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2013Description: 159 p. : 23 cm.ISBN: 9781849052085.Subject(s): INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

| AUTISM

| SELF INJURIOUS BEHAVIOUR

| COUNSELLING

Contents:

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction / Andrew Lovell, Pauline Heslop Part 1. Different Approaches to Understanding Self Injury 2. Dimensions of Self-injury / Andrew Lovell and Pauline Heslop 3. Social Approaches to Understanding Self-injury / Pauline Heslop 4. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding Self-injury / Pauline Heslop, Richard Curen 5. The Voice of Experience: People with Learning Disabilities and their Families Talking About How They Understand Self-injury / Pauline Heslop, Fiona Macauley Part 2. Different Approaches to Working with People Who Self Injure 6. Minimising Harm / Helen Duperouzel, Rebecca Fish 7. What People with Learning Disabilities Say Helps Them / Pauline Heslop, Fiona Macaulay 8. Family Voices / Andrew Lovell 9. Psychoanalytical Approaches in Practice I /. Valerie Sinason 10. Psychoanalytical Approaches in Practice II / Noelle Blackman, Richard Curen 11. Self-injury and Loss of Sense of Self / Phoebe Caldwell 12. A Relational Approach to Understanding Our Responses to Self-injury / Gloria Babiker 13. Conclusion / Pauline Heslop and Andrew Lovell References Contributors. Index.

Summary: "Adopting a predominantly psychological approach, this book provides carers with up-to-date information and resources to provide appropriately individualised care to people with learning disabilities who self-injure. [This book] synthesises traditional (behavioural) and newer (psychological) approaches to understanding self-injury, drawing on psychoanalytic and social theory to provide practical guidelines for more sustained and effective support. It suggests that motivations for self-injury may be similar for people with and without learning disabilities, and draws on case work examples to suggest person-centred techniques that encourage communication - particularly important with people who do not use verbal communication - and recovery. The book covers a range of specific needs, including people with autism who self-injure, and emphasises the views of people with learning disabilities themselves and their families about what has worked best, and why. At the end of each chapter, a variety of practical implications for the provision of support are given." - PUBLISHERS WEBSITE

List(s) this item appears in: Supporting PWD Jan 2021 | Mental health care. September 23. CM

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"Adopting a predominantly psychological approach, this book provides carers with up-to-date information and resources to provide appropriately individualised care to people with learning disabilities who self-injure. [This book] synthesises traditional (behavioural) and newer (psychological) approaches to understanding self-injury, drawing on psychoanalytic and social theory to provide practical guidelines for more sustained and effective support. It suggests that motivations for self-injury may be similar for people with and without learning disabilities, and draws on case work examples to suggest person-centred techniques that encourage communication - particularly important with people who do not use verbal communication - and recovery. The book covers a range of specific needs, including people with autism who self-injure, and emphasises the views of people with learning disabilities themselves and their families about what has worked best, and why. At the end of each chapter, a variety of practical implications for the provision of support are given." - PUBLISHERS WEBSITE

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction / Andrew Lovell, Pauline Heslop
Part 1. Different Approaches to Understanding Self Injury
2. Dimensions of Self-injury / Andrew Lovell and Pauline Heslop
3. Social Approaches to Understanding Self-injury / Pauline Heslop
4. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding Self-injury / Pauline Heslop, Richard Curen
5. The Voice of Experience: People with Learning Disabilities and their Families Talking About How They Understand Self-injury / Pauline Heslop, Fiona Macauley
Part 2. Different Approaches to Working with People Who Self Injure
6. Minimising Harm / Helen Duperouzel, Rebecca Fish
7. What People with Learning Disabilities Say Helps Them / Pauline Heslop, Fiona Macaulay
8. Family Voices / Andrew Lovell
9. Psychoanalytical Approaches in Practice I /. Valerie Sinason
10. Psychoanalytical Approaches in Practice II / Noelle Blackman, Richard Curen
11. Self-injury and Loss of Sense of Self / Phoebe Caldwell
12. A Relational Approach to Understanding Our Responses to Self-injury / Gloria Babiker
13. Conclusion / Pauline Heslop and Andrew Lovell
References
Contributors. Index.

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Chapter 11: self-injury and Loss of Sense of Self is fantastic. It contains a lot of insight about aggression and self-injury in relation to autism.

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