Acceptance and Commitment Therapy For Dummies
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Harness ACT to live a healthier life Do you want to change your relationship with painful thoughts and feelings that are holding you back from making changes to improve your life? In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy For Dummies , you'll discover how to identify negative and unhealthy modes of thinking and apply Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) principles throughout your day-to-day life, creating a healthier, richer and more meaningful existence with yourself and others.
Closely connected to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), ACT is an evidence-based, NICE-approved therapy that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in with commitment and behaviour-changing strategies to help people increase their psychological flexibility in both their personal and professional lives. With the help of this straightforward and authoritative guide, you'll find out how to target unpleasant feelings and not act upon them—without sending yourself spiraling down the rabbit hole.
The objective is not happiness; rather, it is to be present with what life brings you and to move toward valued behaviour. Shows you how to banish unhelpful thoughts Guides you to making room for painful feelings Teaches you how to engage fully with your here-and-now experience Helps you cope with anxiety, depression, stress, OCD and psychosis Whether you're looking to practice self care at home or are thinking about seeing an ACT therapist, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy For Dummies makes it easier to live a healthier and more productive life in spite of—and alongside—unpleasantness.
Annað
- Höfundar: Freddy Jackson Brown, Duncan Gillard, Steven C. Hayes
- Útgáfa:1
- Útgáfudagur: 2016-01-12
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781119106296
- Print ISBN: 9781119106289
- ISBN 10: 111910629X
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Foreword
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I: Getting Started with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Chapter 1: Introducing ACT
- Doing What Matters
- Increasing Your Psychological Flexibility
- Living a Life that’s True to Your Values
- Accepting Life
- Defusing from Your Thoughts
- Recognising that ACT Is an Experiential Learning Process
- Chapter 2: Understanding that a Little Unhappiness Is Normal
- Linking Language and Human Suffering
- Evaluating Yourself
- Chapter 3: Developing Psychological Flexibility
- Accepting Negative Thoughts and Feelings
- Introducing the Six Core Processes of ACT
- Chapter 4: Living a Life with Meaning
- Letting Your Values Organise Your Life
- Living Your Life with Dignity
- Chapter 5: Moving Forward with Committed Action
- Being Willing Is the Key to Achieving Your Goals
- Setting Value-Based SMART Goals
- Chapter 6: Overcoming Barriers to Living a Meaningful Life
- Overcoming Psychological Barriers to Change
- Replacing FEAR with DARE
- Using Failure as Feedback
- Chapter 7: Being Present through Mindfulness
- Defining Mindfulness
- Putting Mindfulness into Practice
- Measuring Your Mindfulness
- Being Kind to Yourself
- Working on Self-Compassion
- Chapter 8: Understanding Your ‘Selves’
- Using Self as Context to Defuse from Your Thoughts
- Seeing Your Self as Concept
- Recognising Your Self as Awareness
- Knowing Your Self as Context
- Chapter 1: Introducing ACT
- Chapter 9: Counting the Cost of Avoiding Yourself
- Avoiding the Bad Stuff Is the Bad Stuff
- Seeing Experiential Avoidance as Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain
- Resisting Pain Leads to Suffering
- Removing Your Pain … for a Price
- Chapter 10: Linking the Human Mind and Consciousness
- Understanding the Human Mind
- Recognising that Your Mind Is more than Your Brain
- Considering What Your Mind Is For
- Holding a Negative Mental Bias
- Understanding Consciousness
- Chapter 11: Tracing the Origins of ACT and Relational Frame Theory
- Explaining the Initial Breakthrough
- Introducing Relational Frame Theory
- Moving from RFT to ACT
- Chapter 12: Overcoming Work-Related Stress
- Defining Work-Related Stress
- Training Your Way through Stress at Work
- Responding to Work-Related Stress in a Psychologically Flexible Way
- Establishing a Better Work–Life Balance
- Chapter 13: Looking at Love and Relationships through an ACT Lens
- Ruminating on What Love Is
- Breaking down Barriers
- Plugging the Drain
- Listening Actively, Responding Openly
- Defusing Unhelpful Thoughts
- Being Mindful in Your Relationships
- Creating the Relationship You Want
- Disagreeing Rather Than Fighting
- Facing a Positive Future Together
- Chapter 14: Dealing with Problem Anger
- Defining Anger
- Considering the Cost of Anger
- Dividing Anger into Five Elements
- Defusing Angry Thoughts
- Fighting the Anger Monster
- Tackling Your Anger with Acceptance, Compassion and Mindfulness
- Letting Go of Your Anger
- Setting Yourself Some Helpful Goals
- Chapter 15: Helping You Live with Chronic Pain
- Defining Chronic Pain
- Recognising that Avoiding Pain Isn’t the Answer
- Considering the ACT Alternative
- Chapter 16: Addressing Anxiety with ACT
- Defining Anxiety
- Linking Anxiety and Avoidance
- Tackling Anxiety with a Three-Stage Approach
- Advancing from Avoidance to Action
- Chapter 17: Beating Depression with Acceptance and Committed Action
- Keeping Thoughts and Feelings in Their Place
- Doing What Matters, No Matter What
- Considering What Depression Has Cost You
- Giving Up What Doesn’t Work
- Putting the Horse before the Cart
- Chapter 18: Dealing with Addiction
- Seeing Addiction through an ACT Lens
- Accepting Yourself
- Setting Value-Based Goals
- Moving on from Addiction and Living a Valued Life
- Chapter 19: Recovering from Psychosis
- Understanding Psychosis
- Applying an Acceptance-Based Intervention
- Chapter 20: Ten Brief Exercises to Help You Live More Mindfully
- Slowing Down and Connecting
- Greeting the Day
- Celebrating Your Wandering Mind
- Appreciating Your Food
- Getting to Know Your Hands
- Savouring a Cup of Tea
- Finding Your Balance
- Hearing the World
- Feeling Gravity
- Listening to Music
- Chapter 21: Ten Tips for Value-Based Living
- Dedicate Time to Defining Your Values
- Consider a Time When You Were Very Happy
- Focus on a Period When You Were Really Sad
- Prioritise Your Values
- Identify Characteristics You Value
- Act on Your Values
- Make Your Goals Public
- Be Willing
- Defuse from Your Thoughts
- Remember Some Key Tenets of ACT
- Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Overcome Fusion and Experiential Avoidance
- Sounding Out Your Thoughts
- Taking Your Mind for a Walk
- Giving Reasons for Your Behaviour
- Sitting on a Description
- Thinking and Observing
- Getting Closer to Your Past
- Using Argyle Socks to Recognise Why Feelings Aren’t Causes
- Making Your Emotions Physical
- Controlling Thoughts about Jam Doughnuts
- Being Still
- Books
- Courses and Training
- Websites
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- Gerð : 208
- Höfundur : 10701
- Útgáfuár : 2016
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