ACT For Depression: A Clinician's Guide to Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy in Treating Depression - Softcover

Zettle, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608821269 ISBN 13: 9781608821266

Publisher: New Harbinger, 2011

Synopsis

This book develops the techniques of ACT into a session-by-session approach that therapists can use to treat clients suffering from depression. The research-proven programme outlined in the book introduces therapists to the ACT model on theoretical and case-conceptual levels. Then it delves into the specifics of structuring interventions for clients with depression using the ACT method of acceptance and values-based behaviour change. Written by one of the pioneering researchers into the effectiveness of ACT for the treatment of depression, this book is a much needed professional resource for the tens of thousand of therapists who are becoming ever more interested in ACT.

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About the Author

Robert D. Zettle, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Wichita State University. He completed his predoctoral internship at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Philadelphia, conducted the first comparative outcome study on what is now known as ACT as part of his dissertation under the supervision of ACT founder Steven Hayes, and has published both basic and applied research relating to rule-governance, experiential avoidance, and ACT for depression for more than twenty years.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Harbinger
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608821269
• ISBN 13: 9781608821266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336