Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Mindfulness & Acceptance Strategies
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New Directions in the Treatment of PTSD
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma related problems. In this volume, you’ll find a complete theoretical and practical guide to making this revolutionary new model work in your practice.
After a quick overview of PTSD, the first part of the book explains the problem of experiential avoidance as it relates to trauma and explores the verbal nature of post-traumatic stress. You’ll learn the importance of mindfulness and acceptance in the ACT model, find out how to structure sessions with your clients, and examine the problem of control. The section concludes by introducing you to the idea of creative hopelessness as the starting point for creating a new, workable life after trauma.
- The book’s second section offers a practical, step-by-step clinical guide to the six core ACT components in chronological order:
- Creative hopelessness
- The problem of control
- Willingness and defusion
- Self-as-context
- Valued living
- Committed action
Each chapter explains how to introduce these topics to clients suffering from PTSD, illustrates each with case examples, and offers homework for your clients to use between sessions.
I am not a therapist myself, but after an abusive marriage and and even more abusive divorce process, I have read whatever seems like it might be helpful. I found some portions of this book in a Google book excerpt – they led me to purchase it immediately despite the high price.
The book is well worth the money. No book on trauma has been so helpful to me as this one. The ideas are truly revolutionary. I would especially recommend this book for “word” people – readers and thinkers. We tend to want to use thinking and language to find that “key” which will unlock whatever is trapping us – and that approach, its flaws and possibilities, are the essence of this therapy. The revelations here are not the sort you rejoice in, then forget two days later. Once you “see” the truths herein, you cannot “un-see” them. The exercises and examples are very powerful.
Rating: 5 / 5
Great book! I learned ACT several years ago and am now in a clinical position working exclusively with PTSD. This book is a great fusion.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a wonderful book, both as a guide to clinicians who want to implement ACT for PTSD and as a general guide to understanding ACT and the underlying principles. The chapter on mindfulness is particularly helpful. The authors bring to this book a deep compassion, empathy and understanding of the difficulties of struggling with trauma, and where we as clinicians can get stuck in the process of using ACT to treat it.
The illustrations were also fantastic!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the much needed practical guide for implementing ACT. The overview of ACT is the most practical and understandable I’ve read and the guide for implementing the treatment is the step-by-step “how to” I’ve been needing. I really appreciated the specific examples provided for implementing the treatment and the word for word descriptions of how experienced ACT clinicians approach difficult situations. It is rare to discover a book like this that not only furthers my understanding of a treatment but also motivates me to practice it!
Rating: 5 / 5
What a pleasure to read a book for “work” and to savor each chapter and look forward to the next. This accessible, engaging book is written with warmth and compassion. You feel as if you were in the room with these seasoned and oh-so-human therapists and their courageous clients.
After reading the book, I now understand the essence of Acceptance and Committment Therapy, feel like I have witnessed the experiential exercises, and understand how it is applied in a group setting. But the best part is, I enjoyed every minute of it!
Rating: 5 / 5
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