A structured account of short‐term psychodynamic psychotherapy with a man with learning disabilities Available to Purchase

This article describes a short‐term psychodynamic treatment of a learning disabled adult male, referred to a community psychology service with social withdrawal and refusal behaviours. It explains the nature of the intervention, progression through the therapeutic process, development of hypotheses and the emergent formulation, and therapeutic outcomes for the client.The article identifies the suitability of short‐term individual psychodynamic psychotherapy for cases such as this, and demonstrates how such interventions can be documented through structured accounts of treatments, which link theory to practice.