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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Accessible introduction Supporter introduction Structure of the book 1. Practice makes better 2. Struggling is normal 3. What are emotions? 4. What matters to you? 5. Connecting with others 6. Kindness to others 7. Being your own best friend 8. The tricky thing about thoughts 9. Being mindful 10. Opening up 11. Feeling low and what to do about it 12. Worries and feeling scared 13. Anger and what to do about it 14. Sorting out your problems 15. Feeling different from other people 16. Trauma 17. Top tips for a great life 18. Keeping it all going Index of exercises References