Navigating Adult Stammering

100 Points for Speech and Language Therapists
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-01252-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 274 g

Reihe: Navigating Speech and Language Therapy

This book, the first in an exciting new series, provides speech and language therapy students and newly qualified and beginning stammering specialists with 100 key points that will help form a strong foundation for their work supporting adults and teenagers who stammer.

Composed of practical, relevant and useful advice from an experienced clinician, chapters break advice down into sections which include information about the therapeutic relationship, therapeutic approaches and signposts to further resources. Throughout the book, comments from stammering specialists describe what they wish they had known at the start of their careers.

This book:

- Puts the person who stammers at the heart of therapy, following the clinical choices they might make

- Is written in an accessible style, designed to be dipped in and out of as required

- Draws on the experience of therapists working with those who stammer

Full of advice and guidance to support effective practice, this is an essential resource for anybody new to this client group.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, Professional Practice & Development, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, Trudy

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Section A: The Person who Stammers Section B: The therapist Section C: The therapeutic relationship Section D: Beginning sessions Section E: Therapy: General points Section F: Therapy: Fluency modification or speak more fluently approach Section G: Therapy: Stammering modification or stammer more easily approach Section H: Therapy: Stammer more proudly Section I: Psychology approaches Section J: Maintaining positive outcomes and planning for the re-emergence of roles and behaviours Section K: Support Networks Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Formal assessments currently in use Appendix 2: Cognitive Restructuring: learning to attach unhelpful thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Trudy Stewart is a retired consultant speech and language therapist. She studied in universities in Glasgow, Michigan State (USA) and Leeds. She worked in the UK with children and adults who stammer for nearly 40 years. Her last role was clinical lead of the Stammering Support Centre in Leeds. Trudy has taught undergraduate, graduate and specialist courses for clinicians in the UK, Europe and Sri Lanka, including on the European Clinical Specialisation in Fluency Disorders (ECSF) course. She has carried out research while a clinician, presented her work at international conferences and written several texts on stammering. She recently co-wrote and directed a play about stammering called ‘Unspoken.’