ACT for Neurological Conditions - by Kim Fletcher & Amanda Mobley (Paperback)

About the Book

The go-to practical guide for ACT professionals working with clients with acquired brain injuries, and progressive neurological conditions. This book provides tools to help clients live alongside complex emotions associated with navigating social pressures, and emotional impact throughout their lives.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

A compassionate, evidence based resource that shows how ACT can transform support for people with neurological conditions. Essential reading for practitioners in this field.--Prof. Louise McHugh, School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Peer Reviewed ACT Trainer and author of A Contextual Behavioural Guide to the Self

A grab-and-go book with great depth of understanding of what it is like to acquire and/or live with a neurological condition, and rich in its teaching and illustrative examples of adapting ACT interventions in the context of clients' changed abilities and/or identities.--Dr Jerry Burgess, Director of Clinical Neuropsychology Programmes, Canterbury Christ Church University

About the Author

Kimberley Fletcher is a UK Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, a clinical-academic researcher at the University of Nottingham and co-director of The Brain Place.

Amanda Mobley is a UK Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and Head of Neuropsychology for Leicester Partnership NHS Trust and co-director of The Brain Place.