Tailoring
brain injury
The psychologists are free to decide (together with the patient) the order of the sessions, based on information from the intake. The session ‘Values’ can be a helpful start of the intervention when a patient struggles to adjust to the consequences of the acquired brain injury and finds it difficult to shape their post-injury life. However, when a patient is struggling and fighting against negative feelings and thoughts, there might not yet be room for value exploration. In that case, it is advised to start with the session ‘Effect of Control’ followed by the session ‘Acceptance’. Furthermore, it is advised not to postpone the session ‘Values’ until the end of the intervention because the monitoring of committed actions would not be possible with the ‘valuable activity of the week’ exercise. Finally, in several sessions, therapists and patients can choose from different exercises or metaphors, based on what would suit the situation of the patient best.