Abstract
We provide a brief introduction to the book and explain its purpose and aims.
We stress that we cannot provide the reader with a simple ‘cookbook’ for using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) with clients with intellectual disabilities as the therapeutic work requires flexibility, ingenuity and on-the-spot, creative problem solving on the part of the therapist. We explain how we went about writing the book and how as three clinicians/researchers we have drawn on our clinical experiences as well as on our research findings.
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Jahoda, A., Stenfert Kroese, B., Pert, C. (2017). Introduction. In: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47854-2_1
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