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A Practical Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

1 review

Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004

Great Guide to ACT
Very well written... Provides a great overview of the fundamentals of ACT and introduces the reader to several clinical applications... Should be considered as one of the essential reads for anyone interested in ACT or who is beginning to utilize this type treatment

Measuring experiential avoidance: a preliminary test of a working model.: An article from: The Psychological ...
Steven C. Hayes, Kirk Strosahl, ...

Thomson Gale, 2004

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Clinical Manual for Assessment and Treatment of Suicidal Patients
John A. Chiles, Kirk D. Strosahl

American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2004

The cornerstone of any intervention approach with suicidal patients is the recognition and treatment of psychiatric disorders. For many patients, however, treating the mental illness is not enough?that is, suicidal behavior is not necessarily reduced by treatments that target those illnesses. Something more is needed. In this provocative and insightful work, Drs. Chiles and Strosahl offer a concrete, practical framework to fill this gap. In ...

The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Move Through ...

2 reviews
Kirk D. Strosahl, Patricia J. Robinson

New Harbinger Publications, 2008

Same ACT channel, same ACT material, but many new techniques & tips
Strosahl and Robinson follow in the path of "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" but focus specifically on depression. A little New Age-y here & there, which initially might or might not be a turn-off, depending on how you feel about such things - but stick with it, because there's lots of powerful material here: - Strong and useful explanation of why we get depressed in the first place. ...

A Practical Guide To Acceptance And Commitment Therapy
Steven C. (EDT)/ Strosahl, Kirk D. (EDT)/ Houts, Arthur C. (EDT) Hayes

Springer Verlag, 2005

The Suicidal Patient: Principles of Assessment, Treatment, and Case Management

1 review
John A., M.D. Chiles, Kirk D. Strosahl

American Psychiatric Press, 1995

statistical nonsense
Dr. Strosahl alleges that hospitalization does not reduce the incidence of suicide ands offers statistical proof that the incidence of suicide is greater in psychiatric hospitals than it it is outside of psychiatric hospitals. By this logic all cancer wards should be cleared since the death rates from cancer are substantially highter in hospitals than they are in the population at large. Dr. ...

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change

3 reviews
Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, ...

The Guilford Press, 1999

Challenging Current Thinking in Clinical Psychology
Hayes and colleagues have made an excellent contribution with their book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) by drawing together many years of theoretical work and practice into a very readable work. The first half of the book outlines the theoretical foundations of ACT. Many recent books in clinical psychology claim to offer a new psychotherapeutic technique or a new approach within a ...