Intellectual Disabilities

Sandra Baum is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Newham Primary Care NHS Trust. She has a post-graduate certificate in systems approaches to families and organisations from the Tavistock Centre. Her clinical work and research interests focus on using systemic approaches with families and staff teams, and on improving services for parents with intellectual disabilities. Henrik Lynggaard is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Trust in London and is currently completing his systemic psychotherapy training at KCC. He was born and brought up in Denmark but has trained and worked mainly in the UK, where he has developed a strong interest in adapting systemic and narrative approaches in his conversations with people with intellectual disabilities.

Series Editors’ Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Working systemically with intellectual disability , The use of the systemic approach to adults with intellectual disabilities and their families , Lifespan family therapy services , Setting up and evaluating a family therapy service in a community team for people with intellectual disabilities , Engaging people with intellectual disabilities in systemic therapy , New stories of intellectual disabilities , Supporting transitions , Who needs to change? Using systemic ideas when working in group homes , The practitioner’s position in relation to systemic work in intellectual disability contexts , So how do I . . . ?