Clinical Psychology of Severe Intellectual Disability

Topics studied may include:

  • Context – history, aetiology and phenomenology
  • Delayed and different development
  • Psychological intervention
  • Gene-brain-behaviour relationships
  • Aetiology of behaviour disorder
  • Learning theory and the assessment of behaviour disorder
  • Learning theory and interventions for behaviour disorder
  • Controversial interventions

Key skills

  • Written communication
  • Team work
  • Critical review of research articles
  • Report writing
  • Computing and IT
  • Observational data capture, analysis and interpretation
  • Gathering information