ACT Matrix

Schoendorff, Benjamin, Polk, Kevin L.

• Publisher: Context Press
• Year: 1010
• eBook ISBN: 9781608829255

If you are an ACT practitioner or mental health professional, this eagerly awaited resource is an essential addition to your professional library. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy that has been successful in treating a variety of psychological issues, such anxiety, depression, substance abuse, trauma, eating disorders, and more. In contrast to other treatment options, ACT has proven extremely effective in helping clients who are "stuck" in unhealthy thought patterns by encouraging them align their values with their thoughts and actions. However, the ACT model is complex, and it's not always easy to use.Traditionally, ACT is delivered with a focus around six core processes that are often referred to as the hexaflex: cognitive defusion, acceptance, contact with the present moment, observing the self, values, and committed action. Each of these core processes serves a specific function, but they are often made more complex than needed in both theory and in practice. So what if there was a way to simplify ACT in your sessions with clients?Edited by clinical psychologists and popular ACT workshop leaders Kevin L. Polk and Benjamin Schoendorff, The ACT Matrix fuses the six core principles of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) into a simplified, easy-to-apply approach that focuses on client actions and behavior as workable or unworkable, rather than good or bad. Most importantly, you'll learn how this innovative approach can be used to deliver ACT more effectively in a variety of settings and contexts, even when clients are resistant or unmotivated to participate.This is the first book to utilize the ACT Matrix model, and it is a must-read for any ACT practitioner looking to streamline his or her therapeutic approach.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword
• What the Matrix Is All About
• The Psychological Flexibility Warm-Up
• Under the Hood: Basic Processes Underlying the Matrix
• ACT for the Masses: Using the Matrix with the General Public
• You, Me, and the Matrix: A Guide to Relationship-Oriented ACT
• Rolling Out the Matrix, Rolling Back Addiction
• The Pain Matrix
• ACT in Digestible Bites: The Matrix and Eating Disorders
• Out of the Hole: The Matrix with Chronic and Severe Symptoms
• Something You Can Never Forget: The Matrix and PTSD
• Spot the Matrix: Psychological Flexibility in Private Psychiatric Practice
• Casing the Matrix: A Tool for Case Conceptualization
• The Matrix Goes to School: Promoting Psychological Flexibility in Education
• In Business: The Matrix for Team Building and Professional Stress
• The Matrix, Evolution, and Improving Work-Group Functioning with Ostrom’s Eight Design Principles
• Going Viral