Using Intensive Interaction with a Person with a Social or Communicative

Intensive Interaction is an extremely effective approach for communicating and developing emotional engagement with difficult-to-reach individuals. This easy-to-use guide steers those who wish to use Intensive Interaction through its practical application, showing how positive results can be achieved by everyone.The three-part structure explains how to prepare for, carry out, and reflect on the use of Intensive Interaction with a client or family member, followed by a final section that considers some wider implications of the approach. The authors answer a multitude of key questions from how to find the right setting to how to disengage properly at the end of a session.This practical and accessible book is will be useful to anyone who wishes to learn how to use Intensive Interaction, including family members, carers and other professionals working with people with social or communicative impairments, as well as Intensive Interaction practitioners of all levels of experience.