Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems : a Practitioner's Guide to Using Mindfulness and Acceptance Strategies.
An indispensable resource for mental health professionals, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems offers a practical and accessible yet theoretically complete approach to using the principles of acceptance and commitment ther...
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Oakland :
New Harbinger Publications,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Foreword; ACT and the Disorderly Process of Trauma; Introduction; Getting Started; How to Use This Book; Structure of This Book; Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Trauma: The Problem of Experiential Avoidance and the Verbal Nature of Trauma; Chapter Objectives; Overview of PTSD; Experiential Avoidance and PTSD; Experiential Avoidance, PTSD, and Comorbidity; Experiential Avoidance and Control; The Verbal Nature of Trauma; A Word About Mindfulness and ACT; ACT and Other CBT Interventions for PTSD; Mindfulness and Acceptance; Chapter Objectives; What Is Mindfulness?
- Some of What We Know About MindfulnessIntroducing Clients to Mindfulness; The Mindfulness Exercises in This Book; Preparing to Begin; Chapter Objectives; Therapist Orientation; Treatment Structure; Informed Consent; Session Structure; The Big Picture; Creative Hopelessness: Finding the Place Where Something New Can Happen; Session Format (1-2 Sessions); Opening with Mindfulness; Prior Session Review; Jump; The Usual Suspects; Creating Creative Hopelessness; When Solutions Aren't Solutions; Hopelessness About the Right Thing; Recognizing the Cost of Negative Change Efforts.
- Staying with Feeling StuckGiving Hope to Hopelessness; Sticking Points for Clients; Sticking Points for Therapists; Homework; Moving Forward; Control as the Problem: Experiential Avoidance and Unworkable Solutions; Session Format (1-2 Sessions); Opening with Mindfulness; Prior Session Review; Don't Think About Vanilla Ice Cream; Paradox in Action; The Cost of Control; Learning Control; Sticking Points for Clients; Sticking Points for Therapists; Homework; Moving Forward; Willingness; Session Format (2-3 Sessions); Opening with Mindfulness; Prior Session Review; Introducing Willingness.
- Cognitive DefusionBarriers to Willingness; Sticking Points for Clients; Sticking Points for Therapists; Homework; Moving Forward; Self-as-Context; Session Format (2-3 Sessions); Opening with Mindfulness; Prior Session Review; The Power of Self-as-Context; Trauma and the Self; Playing Chess; Experiencing Self-as-Observer; The Self Is, and Remains, Intact; Sticking Points for Clients; Sticking Points for Therapists; Homework; Moving Forward; Valued Living; Session Format (2-3 sessions); Opening with Mindfulness; Prior Session Review; Helping Clients Identify Their Values; Valued Living.
- Developing Values and GoalsValues and Trauma; Sticking Points for Clients; Sticking Points for Therapists; Moving Forward; Homework; Clarifying Values Worksheet; Committed Action; Session Format (3-4 sessions); Opening with Mindfulness; Prior Session Review; Telling the ACT Story; Values Regained; Remaining Barriers; Willingness Revisited; The Character of Commitments; The Willingness Question; The End and the Beginning; Sticking Points for Clients; Sticking Points for Therapists; Homework; Therapist and Treatment Considerations; Chapter Objectives; The First Step: Is ACT for You?