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What Psychotherapists Should Know About Disability

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This comprehensive volume provides the knowledge and skills that mental health professionals need for more effective, informed work with clients with disabilities. Combining her extensive knowledge as a clinician, researcher, and teacher with her personal experience as someone with a disability, Olkin provides an insider's perspective on critical issues that are often overlooked in training. A lucid conceptual framework is presented for understanding disability as a minority experience, one that is structured by social, legal, and attitudinal constraints as well as physical challenges. Illuminating frequently encountered psychosocial themes and concerns, chapters describe a range of approaches to dealing with disability issues in the treatment of adults, children, and families. Topics addressed include etiquette with clients with disabilities; special concerns in assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis; the impact of disability on sexuality and romance, as well as pregnancy, birthing, and parenting; the use of assistive technology and devices; disability and substance abuse; and more. Filled with clinical examples and observations, the volume also discusses strategies for enhancing teaching, training, and research.
Introduction and Overview 1. Who Are People with Disabilities? 2. The Minority Model of Disability 3. The Disability Experience: I. Stereotypes and Attitudes 4. The Disability Experience: II. Affect and Everyday Experiences 5. Families with Disabilities 6. Laws and Social History 7. Beginning Treatment 8. Etiquette with Clients with Disabilities 9. Interviews, Assessment, Evaluation, and Diagnosis 10. Dating, Romance, Sexuality, Pregnancy, Birthing, and Genetic Testing 11. Special Issues in Therapy with Clients with Disabilities 12. Assistive Technology and Devices 13. The Personal, the Professional, and the Political 14. Research on Disability: Shifting the Paradigm from Pathology to Policy 15. For Teachers and Supervisors
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