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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Tag Archives: Positive Psychology
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 …
Intensive Interaction Pilot Project at Voyage Care: Blog 2 – ‘the Outcomes’
Kate Parker (Intensive Interaction Lead for Voyage Care) has written up an extensive and detailed report about an Intensive Interaction pilot project. I have summarised the reported outcomes of the project in this Blog 2. 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 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 …
‘Being with’ and ‘making psychological contact’ through Intensive Interaction
In this Blog I write about the parallels of Intensive Interaction and Person Centred Therapy. Read on for more …
Intensive Interaction and Positive Psychology – an article by Jana Standford
I was recently in some discussion with a psychologist who was wanting to look at Intensive Interaction from a ‘therapeutic’ and positive psychology perspective. I was then reminded of a article we published in our Intensive Interaction Newsletter (Issue 35) by Jana Stanford who was then working in a voluntary capacity for our Leeds &Continue reading “Intensive Interaction and Positive Psychology – an article by Jana Standford”
Connecting with Intensive Interaction 