Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

Dawn Johnson, Richard Bennett

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000929911
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1 Defining the philosophy and theory of ACT
• Part 2 Conceptual questions about the ACT model
• Part 3 Putting ACT into practice
• Part 4 Developing skills as an ACT practitioner
• Part 5 Critical questions about ACT
• Index