Learning Difficulties & Mental Retardation in Children & Adolescents
Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties
- By George McCloskey, Lisa A. Perkins and Bob Van Diviner.
Published December 2008
In Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties, McCloskey, Perkins, and Diviner provide a unique blend of theory, research, and practice that offers clinicians an overarching framework for the concept of executive functions (EFs) in educational settings. The conceptual…
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The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice
- Edited by Alan Carr, Gary O'Reilly, Patricia Noonan Walsh and John McEvoy.
Published February 2007
The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice will equip clinical psychologists in training with the skills necessary to complete a clinical placement in the field of intellectual disability.
The book is divided into seven sections, which cover conceptual frameworks,…
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To Hold and Be Held
The Therapeutic School as a Holding Environment
- By Daniel K. Reinstein.
Published May 2006
Drawing on the teachings of D.W. Winnicott and John Bowlby, who helped revolutionize thinking about relational psychology, To Hold and Be Held integrates the concepts of the ‘holding environment’ and attachment theory and describes how they are applied in a clinical setting. It also uses metaphor…
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Nameless
Understanding Learning Disability
- By Dietmut Niedecken.
- Introduction by Mario Erdheim.
Published November 2004
Is learning disability determined from birth? Psychoanalysis has always striven to reconstruct damaged human subjectivity. However, with a few exceptions, people with learning disabilities have long been excluded from this enterprise as a matter of course. It has been taken for granted that…
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