Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition

by Steven C. Hayes (Editor), Victoria M. Follette (Editor), Marsha M. Linehan (Editor)

This volume examines the role of mindfulness principles and practices in a range of well-established cognitive and behavioral treatment approaches. Leading scientist-practitioners describe how their respective modalities incorporate such nontraditional themes as mindfulness, acceptance, values, spirituality, being in relationship, focusing on the present moment, and emotional deepening. Coverage includes acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, integrative behavioral couple therapy, behavioral activation, and functional analytic psychotherapy. Contributors describe their clinical methods and goals, articulate their theoretical models, and examine similarities to and differences from other approaches.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Mental Health, Spirituality, Ebooks, Science, Counselling

319 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 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

[Evil Secret Ninja · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some good articles in this book and some that were not the best. My biggest problem with this and most of cognitive behavioral therapy is that they keep trying to add things to there modality which is not necessarily CBT. Something works and is found to be effective so CBT therapist try to find a way to make that new component part of CBT and this book did that. I suppose the things they discussed can be seen as CBT but I would not necessarily put them on that category. Things I liked about were that it addressed the idea that we need to replace what we may feel are negative emotions with positive emotions and sometimes it is just okay to sit with the emotions we try to avoid. I also liked how it talked about marriage and relationships and how often interventions fail with relationships. Overall not too bad.

[Elizabeth]

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Table of Contents

1 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and the New Behavior Therapies: Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Relationship
1 (29)
Steven C. Hayes

2 Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Synthesizing Radical Acceptance with Skillful Means
30 (15)
Clive J. Robins, Henry Schmidt III, and Marsha M. Linehan

3 Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Theoretical Rationale and Empirical Status
45 (21)
Zindel V. Segal, John D. Teasdale, and J. Mark G. Williams

4 Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Application to Anxiety
66 (30)
Susan M. Orsillo, Lizabeth Roemer, Jennifer Block Lerner, and Matthew T. Tull

5 Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Acceptance
96 (24)
Robert J. Kohlenberg, Jonathan W. Kanter, Madelon Bolling, Reo Wexner, Chauncey Parker, and Mavis Tsai

6 Values Work in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Setting a Course for Behavioral Treatment
120 (32)
Kelly G. Wilson and Amy R. Murrell

7 Finding the Action in Behavioral Activation: The Search for Empirically Supported Interventions and Mechanisms of Change
152 (16)
Christopher Martell, Michael Addis, and Sona Dimidjian

8 Mindfulness, Acceptance, Validation, and "Individual" Psychopathology in Couples
168 (24)
Alan E. Fruzzetti and Kate M. Iverson

9 Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Trauma
192 (17)
Victoria M. Follette, Kathleen M. Palm, and Mandra L. Rasmussen Hall

10 Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Bringing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy into the Valued Present 209 (34)
T.D. Borkovec and Brian Sharpless

11 Acceptance and Change in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Evolution of Manual-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy 243 (18)
G. Terence Wilson

12 Vipassana Meditation as a Treatment for Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders 261 (27)
G. Alan Marlatt, Katie Witkiewitz, Tiara M. Dillworth, Sarah W. Bowen, George A. Parks, Laura Marie Macpherson, Heather S. Lonczak, Mary E. Larimer, Tracy Simpson, Arthur W. Blume, and Rick Crutcher

13 Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Change in Couple Therapy 288 (23)
Andrew Christensen, Mia Sevier, Lorelei E. Simpson, and Krista S. Gattis

Index 311

Book News

Research and practicing psychologists gathered in Reno, Nevada in the summer of 2003 to explore changes in the cognitive-behavioral therapy tradition over the past decade. In 13 papers, they characterize their own approaches clinically, and consider how the focus of their approaches relates to the broader set of issues embraced by the new behavior therapies. They also articulate their theoretical models and compare them with others both inside and outside behavioral therapy. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Choice Reviews

According to Hayes (Univ. of Nevada), Follette (Univ. of Nevada), and Linehan (Univ. of Washington), empirical clinical psychology is broadening its intellectual horizons so much that classifying the variety of new cognitive-behavioral approaches is daunting. What are these innovative approaches? Bracing doses of spirituality, philosophy (especially Eastern), and dialectics, for example, and also explorations of the beneficial acceptance of personal qualities (without judgment or hope for change), mindfulness (awareness of inner and outer events in the moment), etc. Given the novel, nontraditional cognitive-behavioral therapies treated here, the reader should not be surprised that the perspectives of contributors are diverse; though this may dismay some, it certainly makes for interesting, eclectic reading. The focus throughout is on scientific and therapeutic advances in treating psychological problems, including depression, trauma, marital conflict, anxiety, bulimia, and substance abuse. Caveat emptor: familiarity with psychotherapy and current clinical approaches is recommended, which rules the book out for the average undergraduate. Summing Up: Optional. Graduate students, professionals. Copyright 2005 American Library Association.

[mohamed nouari · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's been a long time coming, but mindfulness has gradually been recognized as an important element of living well. Marsha Linehan, the originator of the very valuable Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) method, and Stephen Hayes, the originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are two of the editors of this volume, each representing a slightly different method of integrating mindful awareness with therapy.

Other authors who have done pioneering work on mindfulness and therapy include Dr.Jon Kabat-Zinn of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, developer of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and psychologist Daniel Goleman who wrote about meditation thirty years ago, and more recently has pioneered work on "Emotional Intelligence."

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[Gv · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing against the book in itself, just... the 2 stars are about my experience of reading it, not its quality. I had read most of the same ideas, but explained more in details elsewhere, so... boring.

[Marcin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very specific but mostly common sense...