ABSTRACT
Developing efficient clinical services involves putting together several pieces of a complex puzzle. Ours is a community brain injury service: providing, as most services do, psycho-education groups. However, few appeared to have a published work on efficacy. We sought to design a programme with a ‘Focus on feelings’, matching the emotional turn that has been such a feature of neuropsychological rehabilitation across the last few decades, and to publish this work. This chapter describes our three most unexpected outcomes: that groups are themselves therapeutic agents, that the process of anticipation can be, in itself, a real help with happiness, and finally, the importance of simplicity in rehabilitation after ABI.
