We aim to provide:
- Training events targeted at clinicians seeking to work with people with disabilities
- Collaborative work with psychotherapy, psychology and psychiatry accrediting bodies to ensure the treatment needs of people with disabilities are represented adequately in the training of clinician
- Development and dissemination of good practice guidelines at governmental and regional levels
- Development and dissemination of practice-based research into the efficacy of psychotherapy with people with disabilities
- Development of web-based resources through which psychotherapy to people with disabilities can be accessed
- To provide a professional network and source of peer support
- To advocate and lobby for psychotherapeutic treatments and approaches for people with disabilities
Institute of Psychotherapy and Disability