For many people with an intellectual disability, the skills and attitudes of their carers plays a pivotal role in determining their quality of life. This book helps carers identify and deepen these skills to provides a lasting, positive improvement to the life of the person they care for. Caring, practised at an optimal level, elevates a series of skills and techniques into something that can feel like an art form, and involves the development of nurturing relationships that transcend labels, diagnoses and categories. Based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), The Art of Caring for People with Intellectual Disabilities helps carers to analyse their own core values in relation to their role, and then to identify strategies that will help them live in line with these values. The authors explore the multifaceted nature of the caring role - from carer to nurse to companion and beyond - and how to overcome the range of challenges involved in caring for people with intellectual disabilities using the concept of ACT to enhance the wellbeing of both carers themselves, and those they care for.