A narrative approach to helping an adult with a mild learning disability to confront “the gremlin”.
Accessible summary: Sometimes people with a learning disability find things hard which changes how they think, feel and what they do. The psychology team supports people with feelings, thoughts, relationships and behaviours. Narrative therapy is a way of helping people to understand things in a diff...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 206 - 212 |
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| Formato: | case study research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2018
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