Acceptance & commitment therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder & trauma-related problems : a practitioner's guide to using mindfulness & acceptance strategies / Robyn D. Walser, Darrah Westrup.
"Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other trauma related problems."--Jacket.
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Oakland, CA :
New Harbinger Publications,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Acceptance, mindfulness, and trauma : the problem of experiential avoidance and the verbal nature of trauma
- Mindfulness and acceptance
- Preparing to begin
- Creative hopelessness : finding the place where something new can happen
- Control as the problem : experiential avoidance and unworkable solutions
- Willingness
- Self-as-context
- Valued living
- Committed action
- Therapist and treatment considerations
- Clinical issues and assessment
- Conclusion : opening to vitality.