Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life : the New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life : the New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy /

This book develops acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary and exciting new direction in psychotherapy, into step-by-step exercises readers can use to get relief from emotional pain. Written by ACT's founding theorist, the book offers a self-help program proven to be effective...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Hayes, Steven C.
Other Authors: Smith, Spencer Xavier
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, 2005
Series:New Harbinger self-help workbook.
Subjects:
Acceptance and commitment therapy.
Cognitive therapy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • ACT: What It Is and How It Can Help You
  • Suffering: Psychological Quicksand
  • The Ubiquity of Human Suffering
  • Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Values
  • Commitment and Values-Based Living
  • Human Suffering
  • Human Suffering Is Universal
  • Exercise: Your Suffering Inventory
  • The Problem with Pain
  • Exercise: The Pain is Gone, Now What?
  • The Problem with Pain: Revisited
  • Living a Valued Life: An Alternative
  • Why Language Leads to Suffering / John T. Blackledge
  • The Nature of Human Language
  • Exercise: Relate Anything to Anything Else
  • Exercise: A Screw, a Toothbrush, and a Lighter
  • Why Language Creates Suffering
  • Exercise: A Yellow Jeep
  • Exercise: Don't Think About Your Thought
  • What You've Been Doing
  • Exercise: The Coping Strategies Worksheet
  • The Problem with Getting Rid of Things-Squared
  • Experiential Avoidance
  • The Mind-Train
  • The Pull of Avoidance / Julieann Pankey, Kathleen M. Palm
  • Why We Do What Can't Work
  • Accepting the Possibility That Experiential Avoidance Can't Work
  • So, What Are You Supposed to Do?
  • Exercise: The Blame Game
  • Exercise: Judging Your Own Experience: Examining What Works
  • Moving On
  • Exercise: What Are You Feeling and Thinking Now?
  • Letting Go / John T. Blackledge, Michael Ritter
  • If You're Not Willing to Have It, You Will
  • Acceptance and Willingness
  • Exercise: Why Willingness?
  • Willingness and Distress
  • Exercise: Being Willingly Out of Breath
  • The "Willingness to Change" Question
  • The Trouble with Thoughts / Jason Lillis.

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