Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change

✍ Scribed by Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, Kelly G. Wilson

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 417
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Since the original publication of this seminal work, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has come into its own as a widely practiced approach to helping people change. This book provides the definitive statement of ACT—from conceptual and empirical foundations to clinical techniques—written by its originators. ACT is based on the idea that psychological rigidity is a root cause of a wide range of clinical problems. The authors describe effective, innovative ways to cultivate psychological flexibility by detecting and targeting six key processes: defusion, acceptance, attention to the present moment, self-awareness, values, and committed action. Sample therapeutic exercises and patient–therapist dialogues are integrated throughout.

 

New to This Edition

Reflects tremendous advances in ACT clinical applications, theory building, and research.

Psychological flexibility is now the central organizing focus.

Expanded coverage of mindfulness, the therapeutic relationship, relational learning, and case formulation.

Restructured to be more clinician friendly and accessible; focuses on the moment-by-moment process of therapy.

 

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1--The Dilemma of Human Suffering
Chapter 2--The Foundations of ACT
Chapter 3--Psychological Flexibility as a Unified Model of Human Functioning
Chapter 4--Case Formulation
Chapter 5--The Therapeutic Relationship in Act
Chapter 6--Creating a Context for Change
Chapter 7--Present-Moment Awareness
Chapter 8--Dimensions of Self
Chapter 9--Defusion
Chapter 10--Acceptance
Chapter 11--Connecting with Values
Chapter 12--Committed Action
Chapter 13--Contextual Behavioral Science and the Future of ACT
References
Index