... disability Intellectual disability Disability psychotherapy Emotional disability Frankish model Reflections The process of becoming a disability psychotherapist and the quest to meet the emotional needs of people with ID, led me to suggest the following conditions necessary but not essential...

... with repeated analytic, quantitative and qualitative measures. This reported progress from individual weekly disability psychotherapy of psychodynamic orientation within an emotional disability framework. Findings – Disability psychotherapy led to a reduction in emotional and behavioural problems...

... of a 14-month old child level and he became stuck at that stage (Practicing stage) (Frankish, 2013a); interrupted emotional development led to an emotional disability. Mark’s comments in therapy indicated he had cognitive skills above the ID range and it seemed his emotional disability hampered putting...