... 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...

..., effectiveness of approaches needs demonstrating (Roth and Fonagy, 2006). Disability psychotherapy is a collective term for applying psychodynamic and counselling approaches to meet the emotional needs of people with an ID (Frankish, 1989). The Frankish model (FM) of disability psychotherapy, applies...

...Dr Marco O. Bertelli; Erica Elaine McInnis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the theory and practice of disability psychotherapy (DP) using the integrative Frankish model (2013a). This draws on the model’s use with a 28-year-old male with a mild intellectual disability (ID) who...