TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayes,Steven C.
AU  - Strosahl,Kirk
AU  - Wilson,Kelly G.
TI  - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change ; GSC002106
SN  - 1572304812
AV  - RC489.C62 H39 1999
U1  - 616.89142 21
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - New York
PB  - The Guilford Press
KW  - Acceptance and commitment therapy
KW  - Values clarification
KW  - Language and emotions
KW  - Cognitive Therapy
KW  - methods
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Self Concept
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The problem and the approach; The dilemma of human suffering; The underlying assumptions of the psychological mainstream; The assumption of destructive normality --; The philosophical and theoretical foundations of ACT; Why the level of technique is not adequate; The need for philosophy; Functional contextualism; Relational frame theory and rule governance; The view of language underlying ACT; Summary; Implications of functional contextualism, rule governance, and relational frame theory --; The ACT model of psychopathology and human suffering; The system that traps people; The pervasiveness of experiential avoidance; The destructive effects of experiential avoidance; When experiential avoidance can't work; How humans get drawn into a struggle; ACT; Accept, choose, take action; ACT as a contextual cognitive-behavioral therapy; Concluding remarks; A personal exercise for therapists --; Creative hopelessness: challenging the normal change agenda; Theoretical focus; Clinical focus; Informed consent; Drawing out the system; Confronting the system; Creative hopelessness; Barriers to giving up the unworkable system; Letting go of the struggle as an alternative; Therapeutic do's and don'ts; Progress to the next phase; Personal work for the clinician; Clinical vignette; Appendix; Client homework --; Control is the problem, not the solution; Theoretical focus; Clinical focus; Giving the struggle a name; Control is the problem; How emotional control is learned; Examine the apparent success of control; The alternative to control; Willingness; The cost of unwillingness; Therapeutic do's and don'ts; Progress to the next stage; Personal work for the clinician; Is control the problem?; Clinical vignette; Appendix; Client homework --; Building acceptance by defusing language; Theoretical focus; Clinical focus; Attacking the arrogance of words; Deliteralizing language; Undermining reasons as causes; Disrupting troublesome language practices; Evaluation versus description; Willingness; The goal of deliteralization; Therapeutic do's and don'ts; Progress to the next stage; Personal exercise for the clinician; Your views of yourself; Clinical vignette; Appendix; Client homework --; Discovering self, defusing self; The theoretical focus; Varieties of self; Clinical focus; Undermining attachment to the conceptualized self; Building awareness of the observing self; Experiential exercises with the observing self; Therapeutic do's and don'ts; Progress to the next phase; Personal work for the clinician; Is your self getting in the way?; Clinical vignette --; Valuing; Theoretical focus; Clinical focus; Valuing; A point on the compass; Outcome is the process through which process becomes the outcome; Values clarification; Setting the compass heading; Assessment of values, goals, actions, and barriers; Willingness to have barriers and barriers to willingness; Therapeutic do's and don'ts; Progress to the next phase; Personal work for the clinician; Taking a direction; Clinical vignette --; Willingness and commitment: putting ACT into action; The client's quandary and the way out; Theoretical focus; Clinical focus; Experiential qualities of applied willingness; Reconnecting with values, goals, and actions; Committed action as a process; Committed action invites obstacles; A map for the journey; FEAR and ACT; Primary barriers to committed action; ACT as a behavior therapy; Termination and relapse prevention; Therapeutic do's and don'ts; Personal work for the clinician; committed action; Clinical vignette; Appendix; Client homework --; The effective ACT therapeutic relationship; Positive leverage points in ACT; Negative leverage points in ACT; The therapeutic relationship; Summary --; ACT in context; The relevance of ACT in the 21st century
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