Innovations in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Acquired Brain Injury

Richard Coates works as a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist in Independent Practice. He co-founded the Neuro-ACT Facebook group, which aims to connect clinicians and researchers worldwide using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with people with neurological conditions. Richard is engaged with ACT in many contexts: his work with clients, supervision, training, research, community and himself. Connection, creativity, learning and kindness matter to him.

CHAPTER ONE

ACT resilience training in multiple sclerosis

Kenneth I. Pakenham and Ambra Mara Giovannetti

CHAPTER TWO

“Rather than be in a cage, be in a cocoon”: A pilot yoga-

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group for people with Acquired Brain Injury

Mairéad Jones, Jenn Galvin and Marcia Ward

CHAPTER THREE

ACT with older adults after stroke

Ana Rita Silva, Paula Castilho and Sérgio A. Carvalho

CHAPTER FOUR

Relational approaches: ACT with female relatives of people with brain injury

Jo Johnson

CHAPTER FIVE

ACTing through the stroke journey: Acute, inpatient and community rehabilitation from

the perspective of a stroke survivor and two psychologists

Lucy Martin, Marcia Ward and Fiadhnait O’ Keeffe

CHAPTER SIX

Creative interventions with ACT and severe brain injury

Richard Coates

CHAPTER SEVEN

Informing therapeutic practice after a traumatic brain injury: Values

identification and achievement during engagement in Acceptance and

Commitment Therapy

Diane Whiting, Grahame Simpson and Frank Deane

CHAPTER EIGHT

Life asks you questions: Presence as process in Acceptance and Commitment

Therapy for adults with aphasia

Fiona O’Neill

CHAPTER NINE

Applying the Relational Frame Theory account of the self to self-related issues

following a traumatic brain injury

Alison Stapleton, Richard Coates, Fergus Gracey and Louise McHugh

CHAPTER TEN

Evaluating a novel, online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention

for allied healthcare professionals in a neurorehabilitation setting

Karen Kinsella, Marcia Ward and Sharon Houghton