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Learning Difficulties & Mental Retardation in Children & Adolescents

Educating Children and Young People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Constructing Personalised Pathways to Learning

Educating Children and Young People with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
  • By Carolyn Blackburn, Barry Carpenter and Jo Egerton.

Published May 2012

The range of learning difficulties associated with children and young people who have Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) has been highlighted as an emerging but little understood area of Special Educational Needs. This engaging, timely and highly practical book will raise awareness about FASD…
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Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders

The PEERS Treatment Manual

Social Skills for Teenagers with Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • By Elizabeth A. Laugeson, and Fred Frankel.

Published May 2010

This book is essential reading for any clinician or researcher working with teens with autism spectrum disorders. This parent-assisted intervention for teens is based on a comprehensive, evidence-based, 14-week program at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, the manualization…
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Assessment and Intervention for Executive Function Difficulties

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

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

To Hold and Be Held
  • 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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