Living Your Best Life :Acceptance-Based Guided Self-Help for People with Intellectual Disabilities

Living Your Best Life

Living Your Best Life :Acceptance-Based Guided Self-Help for People with Intellectual Disabilities

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Published: 30 September, 2022
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Sometimes, we can all try so hard to avoid causing ourselves pain that we don't live our lives to the full - and people with intellectual disabilities are no different. Based on principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Living Your Best Life provides guided self-help materials for a person with intellectual disabilities to work through alongside a supporter such as a paid carer, family member or mental health professional. The tools and guidance help the individual identify what is important to them and move towards a life where worries and doubts do not stop them doing activities they enjoy or trying new things. Each chapter includes separate sections for supporters and for the person with intellectual disabilities (which can be read to them if necessary). The book also includes a wide range of exercises, graded by difficulty so as to be matched to an individual's specific abilities and challenges.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781803881959
ISBN10 180388195X
Number Of Pages 128
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
Format paperback
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Author's Bio

JONATHAN WILLIAMS is a Principal Clinical Psychologist with NHS Wales. He has two decades of experience specialising in Intellectual Disabilities and has a particular expertise in ACT and related approaches, with a range of journal articles in that field. He sits on the UK and Ireland committee for the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS), and he is also a national committee member of the BPS Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities. ROBERT JONES is Honorary Professor of Clinical Psychology at Bangor University, UK, and a retired Consultant Clinical Psychologist. He was formerly Programme Director on the Bangor Clinical Psychology Training Programme and has held various senior positions in academia and the NHS over several decades. He is the author of over one hundred peer reviewed publications and several books.

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