ACT in Practice: Case Conceptualization in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

by Bach, Patricia A.

• ISBN13: 9781572244788
• ISBN10: 157224478X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781608826308
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc
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Summary

More than just a set of techniques that shapes a particular client's treatment, a psychotherapeutic model acts like a lens through which a therapist looks at both individual cases and psychology in general. Case conceptualization guides help therapists learn how to see through the lens of a particular model. They show professionals how to take a collection of theories and actually put them into practice. This book performs this useful function, for the very first time, for acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a popular new treatment model. The first section of the book offers an introduction to ACT, an overview of the impact of ACT, and brief introduction to the "Hexaflex Model". It describes how to accomplish case conceptualizations in general and offers précis of the literature on the importance and value of case conceptualization generally. The first section closes with descriptions of the first, second, and third wave of behaviour therapy with explanations of how the different waves would have treated hypothetical clients in specific situations. The second section of the book covers ways that different ACT approaches can be applied to actual practice. Quizzes at the end of each chapter help readers to evaluate the information they have just learned.

Author Biography

Daniel J. Moran is director of the Family Counseling Center, a division of Trinity Services, and founder of the MidAmerican Psychological Institute in Joliet, IL.

Table of Contents

A Letter from the Series Editor	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
An Introduction to ACT Principles
An Orientation to ACT	p. 3
Clinical Behavior Analysis and the Three Waves of Behavior Therapy	p. 17
Functional Analysis and ACT Assessment	p. 37
Relational Frame Theory	p. 63
What Is Case Conceptualization?	p. 81
The Fundamentals of ACT Case Conceptualization
Conceptualizing Functionally	p. 93
Contacting the Present Moment and Perspective Taking	p. 127
Values, Commitment, and Behavior Change Processes	p. 143
Acceptance Processes	p. 159
Putting ACT into Practice
Creative Hopelessness: When the Solution Is the Problem	p. 175
Bringing Mindfulness to Clinical Work	p. 189
Values Work	p. 203
Defusion and Deliteralization	p. 217
Willingness	p. 241
Acceptance and Change	p. 265
Pulling It All Together	p. 277
Epilogue: Saying Good-Bye to Shandra and Rick	p. 299
ABC Functional Analysis Sheet	p. 301
Inhexaflex Case-Conceptualization Worksheet	p. 303
Event Log	p. 305
Suggestaflex	p. 307
References	p. 309
Index	p. 327
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