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About this book
You can spend years in graduate school, internship, and clinical practice. You can learn to skillfully conceptualize cases and structure interventions for your clients. You can have every skill and advantage as a therapist, but if you want to make the most of every session, both you and your client need to show up in the therapy room. Really show up. And this kind of mindful presence can be a lot harder than it sounds.
Mindfulness for Two is a practical and theoretical guide to the role mindfulness plays in psychotherapy, specifically acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). In the book, author Kelly Wilson carefully defines mindfulness from an ACT perspective and explores its relationship to the six ACT processes and to the therapeutic relationship itself. With unprecedented clarity, he explains the principles that anchor the ACT model to basic behavioral science. The latter half of the book is a practical guide to observing and fostering mindfulness in your clients and in yourself-good advice you can put to use in your practice right away. Wilson, coauthor of the seminal Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, guides you through this sometimes-challenging material with the clarity, humor, and warmth for which he is known around the world. More than any other resource available, Mindfulness for Two gets at the heart of Wilson''s unique brand of experiential ACT training.
The book includes a DVD-ROM with more than six hours of sample therapy sessions with a variety of therapists on QuickTime video, DRM-free audio tracks of Wilson leading guided mindfulness exercises, and more. To find out more, please visit www.mindfulnessfortwo.com.
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Table of contents
- A Letter from the Series Editor
- Acknowledgments
- Prolegomenon: Finding My Way to Mindfulness for Two
- Coming Face-to-Face with the Human Condition
- A Clinician's Guide to Stimulus Control
- The Hexaflex Model and Mindfulness from an ACT Perspective
- Integrating Mindfulness Work into ACT
- Clients and the Present Moment
- Therapists and the Present Moment
- Experiential Case Conceptualization
- Making Experiential Contact with Mindfulness
- Epilogue: Slowing Down
- Appendix A: Using the Mindfulness for Two DVD-ROM
- Appendix B: The Valued Living Questionnaire (Version 1)
- Recommended Reading
- References