The introduction of formal mental health institutions implanted the Western notions and practices of mental health in British India. The Muslim communities in the precolonial Indian subcontinent did have mental health conceptions, later termed Muslim psychology. Muslim communities have a peculiar mental health scenario. While practitioners may perceive particular approaches to be helpful, caution is warranted and feedback from multiple stakeholders is an essential component of safe practice in instances of the delivery of an experimental approach. In the absence of a sufficient evidence base in intellectual disability, there is little to guide clinicians working psychotherapeutically with the issue of SA and further research is crucial. Themes of trust, confidence and suggestibility are relevant to the therapeutic process in cases of abuse, while factors such as the attitudes of support providers may impact therapeutic engagement. Thematic analysis indicated psychology's and staff's role in delivering behavioural support and psychotherapy. A collective case study was completed based on triangulated data from the clinical files of six individuals with intellectual disability, and based on nine interviews with individuals and/or informants (i.e., psychologists, staff) regarding the six cases. Using a qualitative design, we explored how one voluntary community service, and in particular their psychology department, responded when people with intellectual disability presented with a clinical need regarding an abuse history. The result indicates existence of eidetic imagery in people with ID and its promising therapeutic utility.Īlthough sexual abuse (SA) constitutes a significant problem in intellectual disability settings, little is known regarding how services support individuals with intellectual disability who have been abused. Paired-sample t-test revealed a significant difference between the pre-therapy and post-therapy scores of participants on ADAMS, with a large effect size (d = 1.54).
The statistical analysis of the pre-therapy and post-therapy scores of participants on the ADAMS was carried out to measure the therapeutic outcome. The Anxiety Depression and Mood Scale (ADAMS) was administered to the participants before the therapy started, after every 5th session and once the therapy was terminated. These services were contacted to recruit participants who had experiential (i.e., abuse, trauma etc.), emotional (i.e., bereavement, attachment problems), psychiatric (i.e., anxiety, depression) and behavioural (i.e., anger, aggression) problems and to seek consent from the potential participants. Participants were recruited from the services for people with ID. In this study thirty participants with mild and moderate ID were recruited. This study investigates the clinical utility of therapeutic techniques based on eidetic imagery as developed by Ahsen and Syed. The literature review did not find any empirical study on eidetic imagery-based psychotherapy for people with ID except reviews and case histories.
EMG is based on the theoretical tenets of eidetic psychotherapy of Akhter Ahsen, which uses eidetic imagery as its major therapeutic tool. Keywords: Eidetic Imagery, Eidetic Model of Growth, Eidetic Psychotherapy, Intellectual DisabilityĮidetic model of growth (EMG) is a form of psychotherapy developed for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). It utilizes a two-pronged approach: first to create an environment in which individual growth is possible, leading to improved life functioning and independent community living and second, to address experiential and emotional problems in the lives of people with ID through eidetic techniques that are suitable and convenient not only for use by frontline staff in services for people with ID, but also by parents and teachers.
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Based on the ISM (Image-Somatic response-Meaning) triple code model of imagery (Ahsen, 1984a Hochman, 2002), “A Way to Grow” addresses behavioural problems and emotional conflicts and enhances the participation of individuals with ID in productive activities. This model is based on the philosophical tenets of Eidetic Psychotherapy and their application in learning (e.g., Ahsen, 1968, 1993). This paper presents “A Way to Grow,” an eidetic model of growth for treatment of intellectual disability.
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