Now booking for the Intensive Interaction Conference 2026:
‘Integrating Intensive Interaction Principles into Psychological Practice’, Friday 4th September at the Unipart Conference Centre, Oxford.
Read on for more details of the conference line-up and on how to book your place.
Category Archives: Blogs on Psychology and Intensive Interaction
‘Integrating Intensive Interaction Principles into Psychological Practice’
Announcing the new book published today: ‘Integrating Intensive Interaction Principles into Psychological Practice’ Edited by Dr Sophie Doswell & Dr Maggie Ellis (2025), Routledge.
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Intensive Interaction as a psychological therapy
With the upcoming publication of ‘Integrating Intensive Interaction into Psychological Practice’ in this Blog I have abridged a 2009 article on the issue from ‘The Psychologist’; I thought it would whet our appetites for the upcoming book’s launch (next week!). Read on for more …
Books on Intensive Interaction in 2025
With the imminent arrival of a new book on Intensive Interaction (‘Integrating Intensive Interaction Principles into Psychological Practice’, by Dr Sophie Doswell & Dr Maggie Ellis) for this Blog, I am setting out in chronological order the current range of books published so far (in English) on the approach.
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Evidence of mutual non-verbal synchrony in learners with severe learning disability and autism, and their support workers: a motion energy analysis study (because of the use of Intensive Interaction!).
I have recently been pointed to a research study involving the use of Intensive Interaction. This fascinating study looked for ‘Evidence of mutual non-verbal synchrony in learners with a severe learning disability and autism, and their support workers: a motion energy analysis study’: Read on for more …
The ‘double empathy problem’: Ten years on
I was recently pointed to a decade-on update on Damien Milton’s seminal paper: ‘On the ontological status of autism: The ‘double empathy problem’’. Read on for more …
‘Flow’ and ‘Monotropism’ – two neurodivergent sides of the same attention state coin?
‘Flow’ and ‘Monotropism’: can a better understanding of their overlap be helpful in understanding the social ‘attunement’ attained during Intensive Interaction engagements.
Intensive Interaction as an ‘autism intervention’?
For my Blog this week I am looking at a paper by Dr Damian Milton: ‘So what exactly are autism interventions intervening with?’ (Good Autism Practice, 2014). For more read on…
Intensive Interaction as a proactive strategy to reduce behaviours that may challenge
‘Can adults on the autism spectrum be affected positively by the use of intensive interaction in supported living services?’ – Yes, and here’s some evidence!
The use of Intensive Interaction within a Positive Behavioural Support framework
Following on from my previous Blog on the ‘Differentiation and Integration Phase’ of Intensive Interaction, I thought I would share a summary of a research paper to illustrate my contention i.e. that Intensive Interaction is now increasingly being used within or alongside other educational, health or care approaches. Read on for more …
Connecting with Intensive Interaction 