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What Psychotherapists Should Know about Disability / Edition 1

What Psychotherapists Should Know about Disability / Edition 1

by Rhoda Olkin PhD
What Psychotherapists Should Know about Disability / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
1572306432
ISBN-13:
9781572306431
Pub. Date:
01/05/2001
Publisher:
Guilford Publications, Inc.
ISBN-10:
1572306432
ISBN-13:
9781572306431
Pub. Date:
01/05/2001
Publisher:
Guilford Publications, Inc.
What Psychotherapists Should Know about Disability / Edition 1

What Psychotherapists Should Know about Disability / Edition 1

by Rhoda Olkin PhD

Overview

This comprehensive volume provides the knowledge and skills that mental health professionals need for more effective, informed work with clients with disabilities. Combining her extensive knowledge as a clinician, researcher, and teacher with her personal experience as someone with a disability, Olkin provides an insider's perspective on critical issues that are often overlooked in training. A lucid conceptual framework is presented for understanding disability as a minority experience, one that is structured by social, legal, and attitudinal constraints as well as physical challenges. Illuminating frequently encountered psychosocial themes and concerns, chapters describe a range of approaches to dealing with disability issues in the treatment of adults, children, and families. Topics addressed include etiquette with clients with disabilities; special concerns in assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis; the impact of disability on sexuality and romance, as well as pregnancy, birthing, and parenting; the use of assistive technology and devices; disability and substance abuse; and more. Filled with clinical examples and observations, the volume also discusses strategies for enhancing teaching, training, and research.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781572306431
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 01/05/2001
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 368
Sales rank: 798,443
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

Rhoda Olkin, PhD, is a professor in the clinical psychology program at the California School of Professional Psychology in Alameda, California. She is also on the staff of Through the Looking Glass in Berkeley, California, an agency serving families with disabilities, and the National Resource Center for Parents with Disabilities. She has experience in disability from the perspective of an administrator (she founded handicapped services at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the mid-1970s, and is currently the Faculty Advisor to Students with Disabilities at the California School of Professional Psychology), researcher, clinician, teacher, and spouse (of a man with multiple sclerosis), as well as personal experience (she had polio in 1954). Her short stories have been published in literary magazines, and her most recent story on a disability theme appears in Bigger Than the Sky: Disabled Women on Parenting. Her two children can spot ramps and handicapped parking with the best of them.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview
1. Who Are People with Disabilities?
2. The Minority Model of Disability
3. The Disability Experience: I. Stereotypes and Attitudes
4. The Disability Experience: II. Affect and Everyday Experiences
5. Families with Disabilities
6. Laws and Social History
7. Beginning Treatment
8. Etiquette with Clients with Disabilities
9. Interviews, Assessment, Evaluation, and Diagnosis
10. Dating, Romance, Sexuality, Pregnancy, Birthing, and Genetic Testing
11. Special Issues in Therapy with Clients with Disabilities
12. Assistive Technology and Devices
13. The Personal, the Professional, and the Political
14. Research on Disability: Shifting the Paradigm from Pathology to Policy
15. For Teachers and Supervisors

What People are Saying About This

Mark Nagler

Mark Nagler, PhD, Professor of Sociology and Disability Studies, Renison College, University of Waterloo, Canada
This book is not just for psychotherapists--it is a vital resource for anyone who studies disability or is involved in the care or treatment of people with disabilities.

Morris Taggart

Morris Taggart, PhD, Psychologist and Family Therapist
Simply put, this is the best book on psychotherapy I've read in years. It is not only a superb guide to treating clients with disabilities; it is also an eloquent reminder of what systems-oriented therapy at its most creative can actually be.

Derald Wing Sue

Derald Wing Sue, PhD, President, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, Division 45 of the American Psychological Association
This book is helping me to confront biases, stereotypes, and discomfort that may obstruct my interactions with students, clients, and acquaintances with disabilities. I am confident that it will make me a more effective clinician.

Interviews

Practicing psychotherapists; teachers, trainers, and supervisors in disability studies, cultural diversity, clinical and counseling psychology, and related mental health disciplines; graduate-level students; administrators, policy makers, and advocacy groups within the disability community. Serves as a text for graduate-level courses in disability studies, family therapy, rehabilitation psychology, health psychology, and multicultural counseling, and for diversity courses within clinical psychology.

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