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Acceptance & commitment therapy for anxiety disorders : a practitioner's treatment guide to using mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based behavior change strategies

Georg H. Eifert (Author), John P. Forsyth (Author)
"This book is the first how-to guide to offer a detailed and practical application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to the treatment of persons suffering from any of the broad class of anxiety disorders. In a lucid and readable style, the book brings to life the ACT approach to alleviating human suffering. The book provides clear and flexible, session-by-session guidelines for applying and integrating acceptance, mindfulness, and value-guided behavior change methods into a powerful and effective anxiety treatment approach. It offers strategies that work to remove barriers to change and foster meaningful movement forward. Theoretical information in the book is supported by detailed examples of individual therapy sessions, worksheets, and experiential exercises - as well as new assessment measures that make learning and teaching these techniques easy and engaging. The book comes with a CD-ROM that includes easily reproducible electronic versions of these materials"-- Book jacket
Print Book, English, 2005
New Harbinger Publications, Oakland, CA, 2005
Methods (Music)
xii, 287 pages : illustrations, forms ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
9781572244276, 1572244275
59011639
Acknowledgments and Prefacev
Forewordix
PART I UNDERSTANDING ANXIETY DISORDERS
What Is Act?
3(10)
Overview of Anxiety Disorders
13(18)
Cognitive Behavioral Views and Treatments of Anxiety Disorders
31(16)
PART II HOW ACT REFRAMES THE ANXIETY DIMENSION
Controlling Anxiety Is the Problem, Not a Solution
47(22)
Balancing Acceptance and Change
69(26)
PART III ACT TREATMENT OF ANXIETY
Core Treatment Components and Therapist Skills
95(20)
Psychoedacation and Treatment Orientation
115(16)
Creating an Acceptance Context for Treatment
131(28)
Acceptance and Valued Living as Alternatives to Managing Anxiety
159(32)
Creating Flexible Patterns of Behavior Through Value-Guided Exposure
191(28)
Staying Committed to Valued Directions and Action
219(26)
Practical Challenges and Future Directions
245(16)
Appendix A Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-Rev-19)261(2)
Appendix B White Bear Suppression Inventory263(2)
Appendix C Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS)265(2)
Appendix D Web Sites and Other Resources267(2)
References269(12)
Index281
Accompanying CD-ROM contains client worksheets, questionnaires, inventories, and images as PDF and RTF, as well as Adobe Acrobat