Hayes / Strosahl A Practical Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-387-23369-7
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 396 Seiten, eBook

This book is the most practical clinical guide on Acceptance and Commit ment Therapy (ACT said as one word, not as initials) yet available. It is designed to show how the ACT model and techniques apply to various disorders, settings, and delivery options. The authors of these chapters are experts in applying ACT in these various areas, and it is intriguing how the same core principles of ACT are given a nip here and a tuck there to fit it to so many issues. The purpose of this book, in part, is to emboldened researchers and clinicians to begin to apply ACT wherever it seems to fit. The chapters in the book demonstrate that ACT may be a useful treat ment approach for a very wide range of clinical problems. Already there are controlled data in many of these areas, and soon that database will be much larger. The theory underlying ACT (Relational Frame Theory or "RFT"-and yes, here you say the initials) makes a powerful claim: psy chopathology is, to a significant degree, built into human language. Fur ther, it suggests ways to diminish destructive language-based functions and ways of augmenting helpful ones. To the extent that this model is cor rect, ACT should apply to a very wide variety of behavioral issues because of the centrality of language and cognition in human functioning.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hayes, Steven C.

Strosahl, Kirk D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. An Act Approach.- 1. What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?.- 2. An ACT Primer: Core Therapy Processes, Intervention Strategies, and Therapist Competencies.- 3. ACT Case Formulation.- II. Act with Behavior Problems.- 4. ACT with Affective Disorders.- 5. ACT with Anxiety Disorders.- 6. ACT with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- 7. ACT for Substance Abuse and Dependence.- 8. ACT with the Seriously Mentally III.- 9. ACT with the Multi-Problem Patient.- III. Act with Special Populations, Settings, and Methods.- 10. ACT with Children, Adolescents, and Their Parents.- 11. ACT for Stress.- 12. ACT in Medical Settings.- 13. ACT with Chronic Pain Patients.- 14. ACT in Group Format.- References.

Über Autor(innen)

Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.  is Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of more than twenty books and more than 325 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. In 1992 he was listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as the 30th "highest impact" psychologist in the world during 1986-1990 based on the citation impact of his writings. Dr. Hayes has been President of Division 25 of the American Psychological Association, of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology and of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He was the first Secretary-Treasurer of the American Psychological Society, which he helped form. He has received the Don F. Hake Award for Exemplary Contributions to Basic Behavioral Research and Its Applications from Division 25 of the American Psychological Association and was appointed by HHS Secretary Donna Shalala to a 5 year term on the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse in the NIH.