Erica E McInnis

Accessible summary There are often rules about who can use learning disability services. We used a questionnaire to ask clinical psychologists in the north‐west of England about the rules where they work. We also asked them what psychologists do when it comes to deciding about who can use learning disability services. We found out that different pl...

To our knowledge, Black/African psychology is not widespread among doctoral courses in clinical psychology in Britain. Freud's choice of England for refuge during and after World War II, embedded into European secular culture the idea of individual human unconscious, as opposed to soul or spirit. When between 2009 and 2012 the second author (RRM) i...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the theory and practice of disability psychotherapy (DP) using the integrative Frankish model (2013a). This draws on the model’s use with a 28-year-old male with a mild intellectual disability (ID) who presented with a range of emotional and behavioural problems. Design/methodology/approach – A ca...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report effectiveness of disability psychotherapy with a male adult with a mild intellectual disability presenting with complex emotional and behavioural problems. Design/methodology/approach – An individual case study was used with repeated analytic, quantitative and qualitative measures. This reported pro...

Let us look to where we could be if the past were different. The year is 2040. • Several African countries send aid to the U.K. post Brexit (A referendum vote in 2016 for Britain to leave the European union) • No longer needing to fund projects in African countries, the charity Comic Relief funds what was the NHS (National Health Service) • The UK...

McInnis, Afrikan Centred Chartered Clinical Psychologist. Abstract Universal practice of Eurocentric psychology does not promote wellness and resilience effectively enough in those of African heritage. Incorporation of the best of African culture is proposed as a wellness strategy to counter 'reliance on the psychology that enslaved us to save us'....

Dr Erica Mapule McInnis explains how African Psychology can help black clients deal with their modern-day problems.

To be a less oppressive clinical psychology is to incorporate paradigms such as black psychology for emotional and spiritual liberation. This promotes emotional resilience, wellbeing and community healing. Indeed, it goes beyond lip service, it alleviates culturally encountered psychological distress.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the evidence base for the practice of individual psychodynamic psychotherapy with adults with intellectual disabilities (IDs). Design/methodology/approach Literature review. Findings In total, 14 papers were reviewed. From these, one existing review and seven individual papers provided enough evidenc...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reflect on putting a paradigm shift into practice to become a disability psychotherapist (Frankish, 2013a). Design/methodology/approach – A personal reflective account. Findings – The author suggests seven conditions necessary or advisable for growth of disability psychotherapy (DP) within the workplace....

This paper presents a systematic review of the evidence on the effectiveness of mindfulness for people with intellectual disabilities. Primary studies published in the English language between 1980 and 2012 were identified from electronic databases, experts and citation tracking. Eleven relevant studies evaluating mindfulness training and practice...

Reflections are made on experiences of studying in predominantly white and predominantly black educational establishments. The white institutions were in England, the black in America. I am black British of Jamaican parentage.