Full Description
Navigating life with a neurological condition can present unique challenges, sudden changes in life circumstances, unpredictable future events and loss of control. Negotiating the waves of these experiences requires flexibility and willingness to let go of control of the tide.
This unique guide is structured around the key principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It explores the core principles of the ACT hexaflex and how to introduce these to clients to best aid understanding. Evidence-based ACT exercises, from mindfulness exercises to creating visual prompts and workbooks, will help professionals to support the social, emotional and mental health of clients and the challenges their conditions present to their identity.
Guiding professionals looking for ready-to-use resources for their practice and non-specialists working in the field, this book helps clinicians to understand how ACT can be applied and adapted for a range of clients experiencing acquired brain injury and progressive 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
