Abstract
Abstract
People with intellectual disabilities experience many barriers to a good quality of life and are more likely to experience the social, relational, and material precursors to mental ill health. Using case examples, this chapter shows how cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), with its dual focus on supporting cognition and relational understanding, can be used effectively with the person and their care system to empathically understand distress and support change. It offers a relational understanding of behaviour that challenge services and describes adjustments to CAT tools to make them more accessible to people with an intellectual disability. To achieve good outcomes, CAT can support the system to think compassionately about behaviours that challenge and support meaningful change for those that are cared for, through care being more attuned to the individual’s needs and those caring for the individual.
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