Dyadic Developmental Practice and Intellectual Disability

NIC JONES is a consultant clinical psychologist with 25 years' experience in NHS LD and adoption services, and now works as an independent practitioner focusing on relational or attachment-trauma work. She is a DDP Practitioner, Consultant and a PACE trainer. CATHY HARDING is a consultant clinical psychologist who has worked for over 20 years in community, inpatient, and supported living services for adults with a learning disability. She actively seeks to integrate people's histories into their care, ensuring they receive relational, trauma-informed support. MARIELLE WILCOX is a clinical psychologist with 15 years' experience in the NHS. She is the clinical lead of a new multi-disciplinary service for autistic children or those with a LD, integrating attachment and trauma-informed care into existing systemic and PBS frameworks to understand complex behaviours.

Table of Contents Preface Foreword by Kim Golding 1: Introduction 2: What is DDP: a brief overview 3. Why explore DDP with people with ID? Therapeutic models underpinning DDP 4. Intersubjective connection 5. Attachment theory - an overview 6. Neuroscience: brain development and care Key concepts of DDP with people with ID 7. PACE 8. Two hands of Care 9. Shame and shielding from shame 10. Blocked care The application of DDP for people with ID 11. Tailoring DDP interventions 12. DDPsychotherapy 13. Using DDP to give trauma-informed care 14. DDP in services familiar with PBS Training and future support/references