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Books

 

	Learning ACT: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills-Training Manual for Therapists Authors: Jason B. Luoma, Steven C. Hayes & Robyn Walser Description: This book provides you the conceptual knowledge, the general tools and the therapeutic stance that will help you become a good ACT therapist. Other workbooks and therapist guides in the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
	Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Traumatic Incident Reduction and Related Techniques Authors: Stephen Bisbey and Lori Beth Bisbey Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Description: This book provides a review of the major theories of stress and trauma, and of other methods of working with clients that are most useful alongside the TIR approach, an approach that is useful for a wide range of “normal life” traumas, not just PTSD. 173 pages, soft cover.
	Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness Abridged Authors: Kabat-Zinn Description: More than any other, Full Catastrophe Living is the book that enabled Americans to discover the inner life. This book has brought peace of mind to hundreds and thousands of people and healed countless lives. This is your chance to let it heal yours. hard cover.
	Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse Author: J. Mark G. Williams. Description: This is both a book and a manual for the prevention of depressive relapse among individuals who have recovered from an episode of major depression. 351 pages, hard cover.
	Brief Person-Centred Therapies Editor: Keith Tudor Description: Can the person-centred approach work in time-limited counselling and psychotherapy? This is a question that many practitioners grapple with as demand for brief therapy increases - particularly in the public sector. Brief Person-Centred Therapies is the first book to tackle the subject, bringing together the experience and insights of a leading international team of person-centred specialists.
	Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change Authors: Steven C. Hayes PhD , Kirk D. Strosahl & Kelly G. Wilson Description: Functional contextualism is the world view that underlies ACT. Theoretically ACT is based on RFT, which offers an account of how language creates pain and useless methods of dealing with it, and which suggests alternative contextual approaches to these domains. ACT uses metaphors, experiential exercises, and logical paradox to get around the literal content of language and to produce more contact with the ongoing flow of experience in the moment.

Other Journal Articles

By Henry Whitfield MSc

Towards case-specific applications of mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioural therapies: A Mindfulness-Based Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - Counselling Psychology Quarterly 2006 - Click to download