CBT Practitioner's Guide to ACT

V. Ciarrochi Joseph

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Clinical psychology

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• Publié par: New Harbinger Publications
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 0001
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781608825738
• Langue: English

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how to bridge the gap between cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy
Joseph V. Ciarrochi, and Ann Bailey
New Harbinger Publications, Inc. -->
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The Library of Congress Cataloged the Print Edition as:
Ciarrochi, Joseph.
A CBT-practitioner’s guide to ACT : how to bridge the gap between cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy / Joseph V. Ciarrochi, and Ann Bailey.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57224-551-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-57224-551-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Acceptance and commitment therapy. 2. Cognitive therapy. I. Bailey, Ann, MA. II. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Behavior Therapy--methods. 2. Cognitive Therapy--methods. 3. Self Concept. WM 425 C566c 2008]
RC489.A32.C53 2008
616.89’142--dc22
2008029815
We dedicate this book to our daughter, Grace.
Contents
A Letter from the Series Editors
The First CBT Travel Guide to ACT
Acknowledgments
Part I: Overcoming Cognitive Barriers to Valued Living
Chapter 1. Toward an Integration of ACT and CBT
Chapter 2. Escaping the Traps of Language
Chapter 3. Supercharging Traditional CBT Techniques
Chapter 4. Letting Go of the Self to Discover the Self
Part II: Moving Toward Acceptance and Action
Chapter 5. How Philosophical Assumptions Shape Our Lives
Chapter 6. The Possibility of Radical Acceptance
Chapter 7. Values and Commitment
Chapter 8. Promoting Emotional Intelligence
Afterword
Appendix A. Therapist Self-Exploration Workbook
Appenix B. The Behavioral Foundations of ACT and CBT
References
Dear reader,
Welcome to New Harbinger Publications. New Harbinger is dedicated to publishing books based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and its application to specific areas. New Harbinger has a long-standing reputation as a publisher of quality, well-researched books for general and professional audiences.
ACT is a third-generation behavior therapy. It is also an approach that, on the surface, has a look and feel that may seem somewhat foreign to you if you are well versed in the practice of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). And, you may wonder whether or how you might be able to integrate ACT into your clinical practice. You might even wonder if it is possible to integrate ACT with CBT in a way that upholds your values and commitments, and in a way that helps you to better serve your clients. The book you have in your hands aims to help you do just that.
The authors of A CBT Practitioner’s Guide to ACT are clinicians with extensive experience and expertise using traditional CBT and ACT. They know and draw upon both approaches regularly in their clinical work, and have found a way to do that effectively. They wrote this book to share a bit of what they have learned in the process so that you too might expand your clinical repertoire in working with those people who seek you out because they are suffering.
This is not a book about ACT or CBT as just a set of techniques. Rather, it is about finding a way to be maximally effective using CBT and ACT as a coherent and principle-driven approach, with attention to processes that may be important targets of intervention with a broad range of clients. The book itself is filled with a rich set of ideas and practical worksheets for you as a practitioner and for your clients that will help you to do the following: identify the therapeutic processes you put into play in therapy recognize the processes you potentially overemphasize and the ones you underemphasize in therapy greatly expand the repertoire of techniques you can utilize in therapy, in a way that is theoretically coherent expand your ability to create new exercises and metaphors for therapeutic practice gain know-how that may be helpful to you when existing strategies do not appear to be working
The authors go to great lengths to provide you with something that may be immediately useful in your clinical work. In fact, this beautifully paced book will gradually introduce you to techniques and theory in a way that allows you to try some of these techniques in therapy without necessarily giving up everything else that you normally do.
There are many ways to learn about CBT, ACT, and other approaches and how to apply them in your clinical practice. You can attend a workshop or two. You might read several excellent books, join a reading or online discussion group, or perhaps follow the growing research literature. You may even take a class on the topic, watch training DVDs, or practice applying CBT or ACT under the guidance of an experienced supervisor.
Yet, even with all of that, you may still feel unsure about what to look for at the process level and how to link those processes with therapeutic actions that are CBT and ACT consistent, flexible, genuine, and helpful. The authors of A CBT Practitioner’s Guide to ACT will help you fill in those gaps and round out your professional development as a more effective and skillful behavior therapist. This exceptionally well-crafted book is not the way to do ACT or CBT, but it will show you one of many ways to do ACT alone or integrated with traditional CBT practices.
As part of New Harbinger’s commitment to publishing sound, scientific, clinically based research, Steve Hayes, Georg Eifert, and I oversee all prospective ACT books for the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Series. As ACT Series editors, we review all ACT books published by New Harbinger, comment on proposals and offer guidance as needed, and use a gentle hand in making suggestions regarding the content, depth, and scope of each book. We strive to ensure that any unsubstantiated claim or claims that are clearly ACT inconsistent are flagged for the authors so they can revise these sections to ensure that the work meets the criteria below and that all of the material presented is true to the roots of ACT (not passing off other models and methods as ACT).
Books in the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Series : have an adequate database, appropriate to the strength of the claims being made are theoretically coherent—they will fit with the ACT model and underlying behavioral principles as they have evolved at the time of writing orient the reader toward unresolved empirical issues do not overlap needlessly with existing volumes avoid jargon and unnecessary entanglement with proprietary methods, leaving ACT work open and available keep the focus always on what is good for the reader support the further development of the field provide information in a way that is of practical use to readers
These guidelines reflect the values of the broader ACT community. You’ll see all of them packed into this book. They are meant to ensure that professionals and the general public get information that can truly be helpful and that can further our ability to alleviate human suffering by inviting creative practitioners into the process of developing, applying, and refining this approach to meet the needs of the human condition. Consider this book such an invitation.
Sincerely,
John Forsyth, Ph.D.
The First CBT Travel Guide to ACT
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; said as a single word) and its underlying research program in language and cognition, relational frame theory (RFT), has always been a part of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) writ large, provided only that CBT is understood to include modern behavior analysis. ACT challenges some of the assumptions of other parts of the CBT family of therapies, and it is increasingly showing that it offers a parsimonious approach with a surprisingly broad impact. Consequently, as ACT has gained visibility and demonstrated viability, it has been the target of a great deal of commentary and criticism from various wings of behavioral and cognitive therapy. The interest is actually a compliment, but sometimes the heat from these exchanges obscures the fact that ACT and traditional CBT are related, despite their differences. And the heat behind these exchanges can readily leave out clinicians, who are not interested in arcane scientific battles so much as learning new, empirically supported ways to make a difference with the people they serve.
The present volume is the first written in a way that invites CBT practitioners to explore the ACT model to a degree that fits their interests. Readers do not have to check their assumptions and beliefs at the door in order to explore. Hard-won competencies are empowered, not ridiculed. Less about I’m right; you’re wrong , this book is about let’s see or even let’s play .
It is quite possible to integrate ACT methods into traditional CBT. It is equally possible to integrate some CBT methods into an ACT model. This book will help readers in these efforts, and if that is all that is needed, the book will have been well worth the price. Ultimately, however, readers who want to understand and use ACT fully will want to master its assumptions, basic theory, and clinical model. This book covers all of that ground as well, and but it does so in a way that is clear, accessible, and relevant. With engaging writing, illustrations, and good humor Joseph Ciarrochi and Ann Bailey make the translati