Dawn Johnson, Richard Bennett

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (eBook, ePUB)

Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based contemporary psychological approach to behaviour change that promotes the idea of people living more in line with their values whilst providing them with practical strategies for managing adversity. In this book, Dawn Johnson and Richard Bennett have collated fifty of the questions that have most frequently been put to them whilst delivering ACT training and supervision to a wide range of therapists and other helping professionals.

This book is the first of its kind to provide concise answers to a range of philosophical, theoretical, conceptual, and practical questions raised by practitioners who are learning ACT. It will be of interest to psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, and a broad range of other mental health practitioners and trainees. It serves as a useful resource for those new to the practice of ACT, and for more experienced practitioners who might want to consider these questions themselves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000929911
• Artikelnr.: 68506918

Autorenporträt

Dawn Johnson works as a Clinical Psychologist in private practice, offering therapy, teaching, training, supervision, and consultation. She previously had a long career in the National Health Service and has extensive experience of adapting ACT to work with people with intellectual disabilities, neurodiversity, and severe mental health problems.

Richard Bennett works as a Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. He lectures at the Centre for Applied Psychology at the University of Birmingham and works at Think Psychology, the independent psychology practice he founded, which offers therapy, supervision, and training.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Defining the philosophy and theory of ACT. 1. What is
the best way to describe ACT to a client? 2. Which kinds of issues can ACT
help with? 3. What are the basic assumptions that ACT makes? 4. How does
evolutionary theory apply to ACT? 5. What is functional contextualism? 6.
Why do ACT practitioners answer every question with 'it depends'? 7. What
is the most important behavioural principle to remember? 8. What on Earth
is Relational Frame Theory? 9. Why does ACT use so many metaphors? 10. What
is the relationship between ACT and other cognitive behavioural therapies?
Part II: Conceptual questions about the ACT model. 11. What is
psychological flexibility? 12. What does 'creative hopelessness' mean? 13.
Is 'contact with the present moment' the same thing as mindfulness? 14.
What is self-as-context and how does it differ from defusion? 15. Doesn't
acceptance just equate to giving up and letting life steamroller you? 16.
What is meant by 'transformation of stimulus functions'? 17. How do I tell
values apart from goals or rules? 18. How can I tell the difference between
toward and away moves when clients are taking action? 19. How does the
concept of compassion fit with ACT? Part III: Putting ACT into practice.
20. Do I need to know RFT in order to practice ACT? 21. How do I know
whether ACT is the right intervention for someone? 22. Can ACT be adapted
for diverse populations? 23. Where do I start with introducing ACT to a
client? 24. Should I show the Hexaflex to my clients? 25. How do I explain
each component of the Hexaflex? 26. In which order should I work through
the components of the psychological flexibility model? 27. How can I
encourage people to tune in to the present moment? 28. How do I actually do
self-as-context work with a client? 29. How do I promote acceptance in
sessions? 30. How do I know which defusion procedure to use? 31. How do I
deal with values conflict? 32. So, I just get people to work out their
values and encourage them to do value-driven behaviour all the time, right?
33. Do I have to address all the processes in every session? 34. How do I
apply ACT with (insert diagnosis here)? 35. How many sessions should a
course of ACT intervention include? Part IV: Developing skills as an ACT
practitioner. 36. What do I need in place in order to practice ACT safely
and effectively? 37. Should ACT practitioners practice ACT for themselves?
38. Why is experiential learning better than didactic learning? 39. Why is
there no formal qualification in ACT? 40. How can ACT practitioners shape
their learning? 41. Do I need ongoing ACT supervision? Part V: Critical
questions about ACT. 42. How strong is the evidence for ACT? 43.
Traditional CBT has a well-established evidence base. Why does the world
need ACT? 44. Isn't ACT just another case of 'the emperor's new clothes'?
45. ACT uses a lot of eye-catching tools and techniques. Isn't this all
just a bag of tricks? 46. How does ACT fit within a culture where the
medical model dominates? 47. Is it not harmful to encourage people to tune
into and accept their pain and discomfort? 48. What if people have harmful
or antisocial values? 49. The client says, "I've done everything you
suggested but it hasn't taken away my discomfort". What do I do next? 50.
What do I do if a technique does not work out like it is supposed to?