ABSTRACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Brain Injury discusses how acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) can be integrated into existing approaches to neuropsychological rehabilitation and therapy used with people who have experienced a brain injury.
Written by practicing clinical psychologists and clinical neuropsychologists, this text is the first to integrate available research with innovative clinical practice. The book discusses how ACT principles can be adapted to meet the broad and varying physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural needs of people who have experienced brain injury, including supporting families of people who have experienced brain injury and healthcare professionals working in brain injury services. It offers considerations for direct and indirect, systemic and multi-disciplinary working through discussion of ACT concepts alongside examples taken from clinical practice and consideration of real-world brain injury cases, across a range of clinical settings and contexts.
The book will be relevant to a range of psychologists and related professionals, including those working in neuropsychology settings and those working in more general physical or mental health contexts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|25 pages
Introducing ACT and brain injury
chapter Chapter 2|9 pages
Integrating acceptance and commitment therapy into holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation
chapter Chapter 3|10 pages
The Y-Shaped model of psychological adaptation after brain injury
part II|91 pages
Adapting ACT approaches for neuropsychological presentations
chapter Chapter 4|11 pages
Acceptance and commitment therapy with children who have experienced brain injury
chapter Chapter 6|17 pages
Acceptance and commitment therapy for people with moderate or severe brain injuries
chapter Chapter 7|9 pages
Using acceptance and commitment therapy to support people with prolonged disorders of consciousness
chapter Chapter 9|10 pages
Using acceptance and commitment therapy with people with progressive neurological conditions
chapter Chapter 10|16 pages
One size fits all?
part III|82 pages
Using ACT within systems supporting people with brain injury