Full Description
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) targets clients' social, emotional, and mental health using its six core principles of Acceptance, Cognitive Defusion, Being Present, the Self as Context, Values, and Committed Action.
This unique guide presents evidence-based ACT techniques, from mindfulness exercises to creating visual prompts and workbooks, to be used by professionals working with clients experiencing acquired brain injury and progressive neurological conditions and the challenges these present to their identity. Guiding professionals looking for ready-to-use resources for their practice and non-specialists working in the field, this book provides a practical focus on adapted exercises specifically for those with neurological conditions.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Willingness
Kristy Potter, Rebecca Cramp & Amanda Mobley
Chapter 3: Cognitive Defusion
Maria Dale, Lee Bell-Jones and Katie Melvin
Chapter 4: Present Moment Awareness in Acquired Brain Injury
Lorraine King, Natalie Hampson and Emily Bunn
Chapter 5 Self-as-context and Acquired Brain Injury
James Briggs
Chapter 6: Values and valued living in acquired brain injury
Dana Wong and Nick Sathananthan
Chapter 7: Committed action
Rebecca Gould
Chapter 8: Integrating psychological flexibility processes in acquired neurological conditions: Applications in a context of severe and multiple disadvantage
Nima Golijani-Moghaddam and Anna Tickle
