A Practical Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

by Steven C. Hayes (editor), Kirk D. Strosahl (Editor)

This volume is the most practical clinical guide on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)  yet available.  It is designed to show how the ACT model and techniques apply to various disorders, settings, and delivery options with the goal of allowing researchers and clinicians to begin applying ACT wherever it seems to fit.  The book is divided into three sections, with chapters demonstrating the effectiveness of using ACT in the treatment approach for a wide range of clinical problems.  The first section describes the theory underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a treatment approach and the core intervention processes that encompass ACT.  The second section presents ACT as it is applied to some typical behavioral disorders encountered by mental health and substance abuse practitioners.  The last section examines ACT as it is used with a variety of other populations, problems, settings, and modes of delivery.  This volume will be of great value to therapists, practitioners, and students who are interested in new developments in cognitive and behavior therapy.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Social Work, Nonfiction

Kindle Edition

First published December 21, 2004

About the author

Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor in the department of psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of thirty-four books and more than 470 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and cofounded ACT, a powerful therapy method that is useful in a wide variety of areas. Hayes has been president of several scientific societies and has received several national awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.
He runs the leading Ph.D program in Behavior Analysis, and coined the term Clinical Behavior Analysis. He is known for devising a behavior analysis of human language and cognition called Relational Frame Theory, and its clinical application to various psychological difficulties, such as anxiety.
Hayes has been President of Division 25 of the American Psychological Association, of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy (now known as the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies), and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. He was the first Secretary-Treasurer of the American Psychological Society (now known as the Association for Psychological Science), which he helped form.
Hayes' work is somewhat controversial, particularly with his coined term "Relational Frame Theory" to describe stimulus equivalent research in relation to an elaborate form of B.F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior (also referred to as verbal operants).
An author of 38 books and 550 articles, in 1992 he was listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as the 30th "highest impact" psychologist in the world during 1986-1990 based on the citation impact of his writings during that period.
According to Time columnist John Cloud, "Steven Hayes is at the top of his field. A past president of the distinguished Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, he has written or co-written some 300 peer-reviewed articles and 27 books. Few psychologists are so well published".

Reviews

[Holly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fascinating departure from my usual academic area. I can see how this would be a helpful framework and it was certainly an interesting read, but the book could use another round of editing to correct grammatical errors and missing words.

[Elisabeth]

i need to know how to do ACT, i am a master student of psychology. Thanks.

[Mauro Zamir · Rating 5 out of 5]

Buen acercamiento a todo este mundo de la act, hay algunas palabras mal traducidas, pero todo se comprende perfectamente