Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Developing Psychological Flexibility
ACT HAS COME OF AGE , and what a long, strange trip it’s been. Prior to 1990, there were less than a handful of evidence-based clinical trials. There were no ACT books, and in fact, there was no ACT—back then ACT was known as “comprehensive distancing.” And, it was viewed as a somewhat oddball fringe effort, organized around a small band of visionaries and aspiring graduate students who thought that it was time to develop a psychology more adequate to the human condition. I was fortunate to have been there from the beginning. And here, I’d like to share a few thoughts about how far we’ve come and where we need to go.
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In the early 1990s, the evidence base for ACT was limited to a few small clinical trials. Now, as of this writing, the number of good clinical trials testing applications of ACT has crested at sixty. ACT is also recognized by several organizations as an evidence-based intervention. In the early 90s, there was no organization focused on advancing the science and practical application of ACT and related traditions. As of 2012, we have an organization, called the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, with over 5,000 members and counting. Just over a decade ago, if you wanted to be trained in ACT, you’d have to have attended a workshop led by Steven Hayes, Kirk Strosahl, or one of their students. Now, there are dozens of qualified ACT trainers all around the globe. As of 1999, there was only one ACT book. Now, there are literally dozens, covering many forms of human suffering. In fact, the breadth, scope, and depth of ACT is remarkable. And, I think that has something to do with people like you who are willing to give and share freely—who are united around finding ways to understand and alleviate human suffering, while honoring and dignifying the human condition.
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The books in this catalog are a testament to the efforts of a global group of caring souls. Where this goes next is entirely up to us, each one of us. The books you’ll find in this catalog are a wonderful start as you grow and develop in your understanding of ACT and its basic behavioral science underpinnings in relational frame theory (RFT). Here though, I encourage you to go further. Attend a workshop or two. Check out the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science annual meetings. Form discussion groups and peer supervision groups. Collaborate with like-minded colleagues. And try ACT on yourself, and see how it applies to your own life. It’s easy to think of ACT as a therapy, but I think it’s much more than that. It is an approach to life—a way of living and relating with our own histories and other human beings with whom we have contact. It is an approach that comes to life when it is lived, not simply read about. So do that. Work with the books in this catalog and see what you find. It will be a strange trip, and one that I think you will find both challenging and enormously rewarding. —John P. Forsy th, PHD, professor of psychology, University at Albany, SUNY
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John P. Forsy th, PhD, is professor of psychology and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is author of more than ninety scientific articles and four ACT books, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders, The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety, ACT on Life Not on Anger, and Your Life on Purpose. His research focuses on testing components on ACT as it applies to anxiety disorders, and in tele-health and self-help contexts. He is also an ACT series editor with New Harbinger, a member of the teaching faculty at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY, and a sought-after ACT trainer.
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A must-read for any mental health practitioner who takes seriously the significant social and interpersonal problems faced by those they serve.
The step-by-step approach to assessment and case conceptualization presented in this book is especially helpful and is the result of years of development work in the field.
—John P. Forsyth, PhD, professor of psychology at University at Albany
—Steven C. Hayes, PhD, Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems
Mode Deactivation Therapy for Aggression & Oppositional Behavior in Adolescents
Using Mindfulness, Acceptance & Schema Awareness to Change Interpersonal Behaviors
An Integrative Methodology Using ACT, DBT & CBT
This book presents an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) approach— utilizing a schema-based formulation—to help these clients overcome maladaptive interpersonal behavior. By learning to act on their values instead of falling into schema-influenced patterns, clients can eventually overcome the interpersonal problems that hold them back. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
This book combines the most effective aspects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) to meet the specific challenges of therapists working with angry, distrustful, or hostile adolescents. This evidence-based treatment program is effective with the most difficult-to-treat adolescents, especially those who struggle with anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression. Includes assessments and client worksheets.
Matthew McKay, PhD, Avigail Lev, PsyD, & Michelle Skeen, PsyD
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Jack A. Apsche, EdD, ABPP, Lucia R. DiMeo, PhD Foreword by Robert J. Kohlenberg, PhD, ABPP ISBN: 978-16088-21075 / US $59.95
The Wisdom to Know the Difference
The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction
An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Substance Abuse
A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress, & Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors
This workbook unifies the most widely practiced method of substance abuse treatment, the twelve-step program, with an empirically supported psychotherapeutic model, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Each component of this ACT treatment plan has an explanation rooted in basic behavioral science, and readers will learn how these components fit into the twelve steps in Alcoholics Anonymous and similar programs. Written by Kelly Wilson, cofounder of the ACT treatment model, and Troy DuFrene, this workbook is accessible for all reading levels and can be used by those suffering from all forms of substance abuse.
This book offers readers an effective program for working through their addiction and grief with cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Created by two psychologists who work for Veterans’ Affairs, this mindfulness training workbook is effective for treating the emotion dysregulation, stress, depression, and grief that lie at the heart of addiction. No matter the loss, the mindfulness skills in this workbook help readers process their grief, determine the function their addiction is serving, and replace the addiction with healthy coping behaviors.
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Full of clear, effective, and engaging strategies, this workbook will show teens exactly what to do to overcome their fears and shyness…. All teenagers would benefit from reading this book.
The Reality Slap will do more than soothe you—it will ground you, guide you, and help you… learn the lessons that pain can teach. —Steven C. Hayes, PhD, author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life
—Tamar Chansky, PhD, author of Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
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The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook for Teens
The Reality Slap Finding Peace & Fulfillment When Life Hurts
CBT & ACT Skills to Help You Build Social Confidence This book offers a complete program based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for helping teens break free from social anxiety and stop worrying about what others think. This book helps teens come to see that painful emotions, such as embarrassment, are inevitable and survivable. The comic-strip-style illustrations, exercises, and worksheets in this book address all aspects of social anxiety, from missing out on high school dances to going to job interviews.
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com Jennifer Shannon, LMFT Illustrations by Doug Shannon Foreword by Christine A. Padesky, PhD
This new book by Russ Harris offers a fourpart path for healing from crises based on acceptance and commitment therapy. Readers will learn how to: • Find peace in the midst of pain • Rediscover calm in the midst of chaos • Turn difficult emotions into wisdom and compassion • Find fulfilment, even when they can’t get what they want • Heal wounds and emerge stronger than before Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap ISBN: 978-16088-22805 / US $16.95
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Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life for Teens
The Self & Perspective Taking
A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life
This collection of articles begins with a complete history of psychological approaches to understanding the self before presenting contemporary accounts that examine the self and perspective taking from behavioral, developmental, and cognitive perspectives. The articles in this volume also explore the role of the self as it relates to acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavior therapy, and mindfulness processes. Featuring work from world-renowned psychologists, this resource will help clinicians augment self-understanding in clients, especially those with autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, and impaired perspective-taking abilities.
Thousands of people have read Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life to identify the things that are most important to them and give focus and direction to their lives. This book brings these essential skills to teen readers, presenting a comprehensive acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), positive psychology, and emotional intelligence plan for moving past depression, anxiety, unhealthy behaviors, and simple selfdoubt. By learning that feelings do not need to be translated into actions, teens learn to see their lives in the long term and gain self-control and emotion regulation skills. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com Joseph V. Ciarrochi, PhD, Louise Hayes, PhD, & Ann Bailey, MA • Foreword by Steven C. Hayes, PhD ISBN: 978-16088-21938 / US $15.95
Contributions & Applications from Modern Behavioral Science
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Empowering and moving, this book strokes, bumps, prods, and cajoles the reader toward the flower bud within that yearns to blossom. Even with all of its pains, life is a chosen joy when it is lived on purpose. This book shows you how to do that. —Steven C. Hayes, PhD, Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada
Your Life on Purpose How to Find What Matters & Create the Life You Want Your Life on Purpose is about doing what matters every day instead of waiting for the perfect time to feel fulfilled and alive. With this book, your clients will learn to move past daily distractions, fear of failure, and selfjudgment, and zero in on the passions that connect them with their true selves. Everyone deserves to live a life of purpose, aligned with their deepest values. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com MATTHEW MCKAY, PHD, JOHN P. FORSYTH, PHD, & GEORG H. EIFERT, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-9059 / US $16.95
»»Read more about this book at http://life-purpose.nhpubs.com The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Bulimia A Guide to Breaking Free from Bulimia Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy The approach to moving beyond bulimia in The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Bulimia is different than other treatments. Instead of encouraging bulimia sufferers to avoid or fight against the conflicted feelings they have about food and their bodies, this workbook invites them to welcome and accept their deepest fears, learn to live with them, and put the things that are really important in their lives first.
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Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com EMILY K. SANDOZ, PHD, KELLY G. WILSON, PHD & TROY DUFRENE ISBN: 978-157224-7352 / trade paper + CD / US $21.95
There is no better place to start learning about RFT than this excellent book. Törneke teaches the principles of RFT simply and elegantly…I wish a book like this had existed when I first learned about RFT. —Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap and ACT Made Simple
Learning RFT An Introduction to Relational Frame Theory & Its Clinical Application In the book, author Niklas Törneke presents the building blocks of RFT: language as a particular kind of relating, derived stimulus relations, and transformation of stimulus functions. He then shows how these concepts are essential to understanding acceptance and commitment therapy and other therapeutic models. Learning RFT shows how to use experiential exercises and metaphors in psychological treatment and explains how they can help your clients. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com Niklas Törneke, MD • FOReWORD BY DERMOT BARNESHOLMES, PHD • AFTERWORD BY STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-9066 / US $49.95
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Eating Disorders A Process-Focused Guide to Treating Anorexia & Bulimia This professional guide offers a review of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) as a theoretical orientation and presents case conceptualizations that illuminate the ACT process. Then, it provides session-bysession guidance for training and tracking present-moment focus, cognitive defusion, experiential acceptance, transcendent selfawareness, chosen values, and committed action—the six behavioral components that underlie ACT and allow clients to radically change their relationship to food and to their bodies. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com EMILY K. SANDOZ, PHD, KELLY G. WILSON, PHD, & TROY DUFRENE ISBN: 978-157224-7338/ hardcover / US $59.95
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new harbinger publications,inc. Readable, sensible, and comprehensive, this volume shows you exactly how to apply ACT to your coaching practice. If you work as a coach or are considering doing so, there is no better place to begin.
Real Behavior Change in Primary Care adds ACT to the growing list of techniques that are available to help the primary care provider convince patients to change their behaviors for the better.
—Steven C. Hayes, PhD, Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada
—Robert McGrath, PhD, professor of psychology at Fairleigh Dickinson University
Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness with Acceptance & Commitment Therapy In this book, life coaches learn to help their clients harness powerful techniques to identify their passions, set values-based professional and personal goals, and realize their full potential. By guiding clients through ACT-based exercises in mindfulness training and values clarification, life coaches can help clients accept aspects of their situations that can’t be changed and commit to taking the actions that will lead them to success. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com RICHARD BLONNA, EDD ISBN: 978-157224-9318 / US $39.95
»»Read more about this book at http://coach-act.nhpubs.com Mind & Emotions A Universal Treatment for Emotional Disorders This universal treatment offers readers the most effective techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy for facing difficult emotions and reconnecting to core values. The treatment is based on the idea that most emotional problems do not occur by themselves, but are co-occurring with other psychological problems that also need to be addressed. Instead of treating each problem individually, readers can identify their core coping styles and use this information to heal their emotional suffering and make lasting life changes. This book is the basis of the web-based therapy site cbt-self-help-therapy.com, which offers online treatment for mood disorders.
Real Behavior Change in Primary Care Improving Patient Outcomes & Increasing Job Satisfaction This guide helps primary care providers recapture the ability to effectively help patients achieve optimal health and happiness. The book offers ten-minute interventions that provide your patients with the tools they need to change unworkable and unhealthy behaviors. Each short yet powerful intervention utilizes empirically supported skills from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you empower patients to take charge of the psychological blocks that keep them from resolving their health problems. You’ll also apply ACT skills to your own life and learn to better manage stress, recover from burnout, and rediscover the meaning behind your work as a health care provider. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com PATRICIA J. ROBINSON, PHD, DEBRA A. GOULD, MD, MPH, & KIRK D. STROSAHL , PHD ISBN: 978-157224-8328 / hardcover / US $59.95
new Introduction to ACT DVD Learning & Applying the Core Principles & Techniques of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com MATTHEW MCKAY, PHD, PATRICK FANNING & PATRICIA ZURITA ONA, PSYD
The evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model is a powerful treatment for clients struggling with depression, anxiety, anger, eating disorders, chronic pain, and other problems. In this eight-hour introduction to ACT theory and technique, psychologists and ACT trainers Matthew McKay and Patricia Zurita Ona explain and demonstrate the ACT treatment processes in detail and offer all the guidance professionals need to integrate mindfulness and acceptance strategies into client sessions, spurring on lasting behavior change and values-based action. Matthew McKay, PhD, & Patricia Zurita Ona, PsyD ISBN: 978-16088-21709 / US $199.95
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy An excellent resource not only for mindfulness researchers and practitioners, but for anyone interested in what leads to mental health and emotional balance.
…the best practical skill-building workbook produced so far in the ACT literature. —JoAnne C. Dahl, PhD, University of Uppsala
—Cassandra Vieten, PhD, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Assessing Mindfulness & Acceptance Processes in Clients Illuminating the Theory & Practice of Change
Learning Act An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills-Training Manual for Therapists
In this book, Ruth Baer presents a collection of articles by some of the most respected mindfulness researchers and therapists practicing today. Each contribution assesses the variables that represent potential processes of change and determines the importance of each of these processes to enhanced psychological functioning and quality of life. Clinicians learn to accurately measure each process in individual clients, an invaluable skill for any practicing therapist.
Interested in integrating ACT into your practice? This book is the most complete source for ACT skills training for therapists. Each of the six core processes is explained in detail using examples from real clinical situations. The accompanying DVD lets you watch ACT as it really works in a clinical setting.
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JASON B. LUOMA, PHD, STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD, & ROBYN D. WALSER, PHD
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EDITED BY RUTH A. BAER, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-6942 / hardcover / US $58.95
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Mindfulness & Acceptance in Behavioral Medicine
A CBT Practitioner’s Guide to ACT
Current Theory & Practice
How to Bridge the Gap Between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
An essential resource every psychologist, psychiatrist, primary care physician, health care provider, and health educator should own, this book presents a series of chapters that feature the latest findings on the efficacy of ACT and other mindfulness therapies for specific conditions and populations and guidance for introducing these therapies to patients. The book also includes information on integrating ACT with other therapeutic approaches and offers mindfulness and self-care principles health care professionals can use themselves to avoid burnout and improve patient outcomes.
This book explains how to bridge the CBT-ACT divide and utilize both therapies for a powerful treatment approach. Grounded in current research, this practical guide clarifies how CBT and ACT differ, how they are similar, and includes all the information you need to begin incorporating ACT techniques into your clinical practice. Worksheets and exercises for both you and your clients appear throughout to help you seamlessly integrate the two therapies.
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…replete with conceptually clear explanations and high-impact exercises.
Mindfulness for Two An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Approach to Mindfulness in Psychotherapy Based on his popular workshops, this book for clinicians develops Kelly Wilson’s keen insights into the role of mindfulness in the ACT processes. From a solid grounding in behavior analysis, Wilson demonstrates how clients can move into and out of engagement with the present during sessions and how therapists can use these cues to facilitate better therapeutic work. The book also delves into ways therapists can overcome their own loss of contact with the present moment.
—Mavis Tsai, PhD, University of Washington
The Art & Science of Valuing in Psychotherapy Helping Clients Discover, Explore & Commit to Valued Action Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy A team of ACT researchers explains the importance of working with clients on values, a key component of acceptance and commitment therapy. This book also includes step-by-step guidance for the therapist who wishes to utilize valuesbased techniques with clients. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com JOANNE C. DAHL, PhD, JENNIFER C. PLUMB, MA, IAN STEWART, PhD, & TOBIAS LUNDREN, MS
Kelly G. Wilson, PhD, with Troy DuFrene ISBN: 978-16088-22669 / US $49.95
The Mindful Couple How Acceptance & Mindfulness Can Lead You to the Love You Want With strategies drawn from ACT, this book offers simple ways to help couples bring greater awareness and valuesguided behavior to their relationship. Each chapter explores a key issue, such as passion, fidelity, and the balance between dependence and independence, and includes specific practices readers can do alone or with a partner to help them build vital relationships.
ISBN: 978-157224-6263 / hardcover / US $49.95
Acceptance &Commitment Therapy for Body Image Dissatisfaction
ROBYN D. WALSER, PHD, & DARRAH WESTRUP, PHD
A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Mindfulness, Acceptance & Values-Based Behavior Change Strategies
ISBN: 978-157224-6171 / US $15.95
This book presents a clear plan for showing clients how to clarify their values to help broaden their lives and refocus on what is most meaningful and vital to them. It presents a clear ACT protocol, complete with sample scripts, therapy exercises, case studies, and worksheets, for treating body image dissatisfaction. You’ll learn from a wide range of clinical examples of body image dissatisfaction, some of which explore manifestations in medical populations. The treatment protocol in this book can be effectively applied to both men and women, across a wide age range.
ACT with Love Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences & Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance & Commitment Therapy In ACT with Love, one of Australia’s foremost ACT trainers, Russ Harris, shows couples how developing psychological flexibility— the ability to be in the present moment with openness, awareness, and focus and to take effective action in line with one’s values—will deepen and strengthen their relationships. Through a simple program based on the revolutionary mindfulnessbased acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), couples can learn to handle painful thoughts and feelings more effectively, let go of conflict, and engage fully in the process of living and loving together.
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com ADRIA N. PEARSON, PHD, MICHELLE HEFFNER, PHD, & VICTORIA M. FOLLETTE, PHD FOREWORD BY STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-7758 / hardcover / US $49.95
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com RUSS HARRIS, author of The Happiness Trap ISBN: 978-157224-6225 / US $17.95
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy The authors combine advanced discussions about learning theory and behavioral analysis with straightforward and informative examples.
ACT Made Simple is simply the most accessible book written to date for therapists interested in learning ACT. —Jason B. Luoma, PhD, coauthor of Learning ACT
—Lennart Melin, PhD, Uppsala University
ACT Made Simple The ABCs OF Human Behavior
An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance & Commitment Therapy A practical and entertaining primer, ideal for ACT newcomers and experienced ACT professionals alike, ACT Made Simple offers clear explanations of the six ACT processes and a set of real-world tips and solutions for rapidly and effectively implementing them in your practice. This book gives you everything you need to start using ACT with your clients for impressive results.
Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician The ABCs of Human Behavior offers a thorough and practical introduction to the basics of modern behavioral psychology. It focuses both on the classical principles of learning as well as recent developments that explain language and cognition in behavioral and contextual terms. Practical and easy to read, the book walks you through both common sense and clinical examples that will help you use behavioral principles to observe, explain, and influence behavior in a therapeutic setting. JONAS RAMNERÖ, PhD, & NIKLAS TÖRNEKE, MD foreword by Kelly G. wILSON, PhD ISBN: 978-16088-24342 / US $49.95 Copublished with
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Includes: • Scripts, exercises, metaphors, and worksheets to use with your clients • A session-by-session guide to implementing ACT • Transcripts from therapy sessions • Guidance for creating your own therapeutic techniques and exercises • Practical tips to overcome “therapy roadblocks” Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com RUSS HARRIS • foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-7055 / US $39.95
The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression
The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety
Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression & Create a Life Worth Living
A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias & Worry Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
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From Kirk Strosahl, cofounder of ACT, this workbook develops the revolutionary techniques of this approach into a clear, step-by-step strategy readers can use to live a rich and meaningful life with depression. Readers learn to live a productive life by accepting their feelings instead of fruitlessly trying to avoid them.
This exciting and innovative ACT workbook is the first self-help book to adapt the techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy into a powerful program readers can use to overcome any of their anxiety disorders. The book includes a CD with audio mindfulness exercises and client worksheets.
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KIRK D. STROSAHL, PhD, & PATRICIA J. ROBINSON, PhD foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PhD ISBN: 978-157224-5488 / trade paper + CD Plus / US $24.95
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…empowering & compassionate… extraordinarily insightful…
…highly recommended for all of us.
—Laurie A. Greco, PhD, University of Missouri, St. Louis
—David H. Barlow, PhD, Boston University
ACT on Life Not on Anger The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger
Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy This book offers a five-step plan for coping with painful T ime emotions such as anxiety magazine and depression. It teaches readers life-enhancing behavior strategies that work to further the goals they value most. Once present, engaged, and aware, readers begin to build new lives for themselves filled with significance and meaning. featured in
This book offers a new approach to those who have tried to control problem anger before with little success. Instead of trying to eliminate anger, this book helps readers drop the rope in their tug-of-war with anger using ACT. Value-identification exercises help readers decide what matters most to them and then commit to shortand long-term goals that turn these values into reality. In the process, readers gain the most profound control, accomplished by simply letting go.
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STEVEN C. HAYES, PhD with Spencer Smith ISBN: 978-157224-4252 / US $21.95
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ACT in Practice Case Conceptualization in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy This book offers an introduction to ACT, an overview of its impact, and a brief introduction to the six core processes of ACT treatment—the six points of the hexaflex model. It describes how to accomplish ACT case conceptualizations and also offers possible alternative case conceptualization from different therapeutic traditions, a great help to therapists who come from a more traditional CBT background. Exercises throughout help you to evaluate the information you have just learned so that you may effectively integrate ACT into your practice. PATRICIA A. BACH, PHD, & DANIEL J. MORAN, PHD, BCBA foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-4788 / hardcover / US $59.95
The ACT in Action series lets you observe the core processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) as it is practiced in a clinical setting. These professional training programs—featuring Steven Hayes—will guide you through introducing a client to the ACT approach and working through the main phases of the therapy. If you’re interested in this exiting new approach, you need to add these professional training programs to your library.
DVD only / run time: approx. 90 minutes (varies by disc) / NTSC only Facing the Struggle ISBN: 978-157224-5273 Control & Acceptance ISBN: 978-157224-5280 Cognitive Defusion ISBN: 978-157224-5297 Mindfulness, Self & Contact with the Present Moment ISBN: 978-157224-5303 Values & Action ISBN: 978-157224-5310 Psychological Flexibility ISBN: 978-157224-5327 US $59.95 EACH
ACT in Action Complete Set of 6 dvds ISBN: 978-157224-5761 / US $349.95
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy …a vital clinical resource for any therapist, student, or educator…
…a welcome and helpful book for anyone whose life is disrupted by worry.
—Zindel V. Segal, PhD,University of Toronto
—Jeffrey Brantley, MD, Duke University
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders A Practioner’s Treatment Guide to Using Mindfulness, Acceptance & Values-Based Behavior Change Strategies
The Worry Trap How to Free Yourself from Worry & Anxiety Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy This engaging and effective self-help book adapts the ACT approach to the needs of readers struggling with generalized anxiety disorder and subclinical worry. Readers learn to “de-fuse” from worries, observing and then letting them go. Then, readers explore and commit to acting on their values, thereby creating rich lives for themselves—even with the occasional worry. An excellent choice for bibliotherapy or for between-session homework for clients.
An effective, ACT approach for treating any anxiety disorder. Remove barriers to change and foster rapid client progress. Theoretical information in the book is supported by detailed examples of individual therapy sessions, worksheets, and exercises—as well as a CD-ROM that includes electronic versions of all client worksheets. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
Includes a CD-ROM with client worksheets
CHAD LEJEUNE, PHD foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD
GEORG H. EIFERT, PHD, & JOHN P. FORSYTH, PHD foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD
ISBN: 978-157224-4801 / US $16.95
ISBN: 978-157224-4276 / hardcover + CD-ROM / US $59.95
Derived Relational Responding
Acceptance & Mindfulness Treatments for Children & Adolescents
Applications for Learners with Autism & Other Developmental Disabilities
A Practitioner’s Guide
The techniques in this book are based on derived stimulus relations technology and provide practitioners with a set of tools for the implementation of educational interventions. These powerful techniques help clients with autism and other developmental disabilities acquire verbal, social, and cognitive skills.
The chapters in Acceptance and Mindfulness Treatments for Children and Adolescents show how to modify thirdwave behavioral and cognitive therapy methods for the treatment of children and adolescents. This book also considers the early evidence for the adaptability and effectiveness of these methods. Edited by two luminaries in the field of third-wave behavior therapy, these essays are invaluable in helping young patients reap the benefits of acceptance and mindfulness approaches such as ACT, DBT, MBCT, and MBSR.
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com edited by RUTH ANNE REHFELDT, PhD, BCBA, & YVONNE BARNES-HOLMES, PhD foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PhD
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ISBN: 978-157224-5365 / hardcover / US $79.95
EDITED BY LAURIE A. GRECO, PhD, & STEVEN C. HAYES, PhD
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ISBN: 978-157224-5419 / hardcover / US $59.95
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new harbinger publications,inc. …an avenue of hope and encouragement that is… completely different from other scientifically-driven approaches to the problem of anorexia. —Frank W. Bond, PhD, University of London
…a well thought out, easy to understand approach to treating the depressed client using the ACT framework. —Kirk Strosahl, PhD, coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Anorexia Workbook
ACT for Depression
How to Accept Yourself, Heal Your Suffering & Reclaim Your Life
A Clinician’s Guide to Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy in Treating Depression
This workbook offers logical, stepby-step exercises that lead to a new understanding of anorexia and the problems that can come from trying to control the disorder. Readers learn to use mindfulness to deal with out-ofcontrol thoughts and feelings, identify choices that will lead to better health and quality of life, and redirect their energy into committed action that furthers their values.
This book develops the techniques of ACT into a session-by-session approach that you can use to treat clients suffering from depression. The research-supported program outlined in the book introduces you to the ACT model on both theoretical and case-conceptual levels, then delves into the specifics of structuring interventions for clients with depression using the ACT method of acceptance and values-based behavior change. The book includes worksheets for client homework and clear illustrative examples.
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com MICHELLE HEFFNER, MA, & GEORG H. EIFERT, PHD foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD
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ISBN: 978-157224-3620 / US $21.95
ROBERT D. ZETTLE, PHD ISBN: 978-16088-21266 / US $49.95
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder & Trauma-Related Problems
Finding Life Beyond Trauma Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress & Trauma-Related Problems
A Practioner’s Guide to Using Mindfulness & Acceptance Strategies
Includes a CD-ROM with client worksheets
ACT offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of PTSD and other trauma related problems. In this volume, you’ll find a complete theoretical and practical guide to making this revolutionary new model work in your practice. You’ll learn the importance of mindfulness and acceptance in the ACT model, find out how to structure sessions with your clients, and examine the problem of control. Includes an online link for downloadable client worksheets and other materials. ROBYN D. WALSER, PHD, & DARRAH WESTRUP, PHD foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD ISBN: 978-16088-23338 / US $58.95
This workbook offers an ACT-based approach to living a rich and purposeful life after experiencing a traumatic event. By exploring mindfulness techniques, readers will be able to remain present with painful feelings and stop avoiding the thoughts and situations that bring them up. Instead of focusing on the past, they’ll clarify what they want their lives to be about right now and in the future. The exercises throughout will help readers accept difficult feelings and commit to acting on their values. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
VICTORIA M. FOLLETTE, PHD, & JACQUELINE PISTORELLO, PHD foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-4979 / US $21.95
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy The book contains many useful and concrete strategies for helping parents to regulate their own thoughts and feelings in order to help their child stand up to anxiety. —Matthew L. Speltz, PhD, University of Washington
Parenting your Anxious Child with Mindfulness & Acceptance A Powerful New Approach to Overcoming Fear, Panic & Worry Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy This book offers a new way to think about anxiety in children, as well as a set of techniques used by child psychologists to help children as young as four let go of anxious feelings and focus instead on relationships with friends, learning new things in school, and having fun. Parents are advised to learn these techniques themselves, then pass them on to their child. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com CHRISTOPHER McCURRY, PHD foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-5792 / US $17.95
C o mpass i o n - F o cus e d Th e r ap y THE COMPASSIONATE MIND A New Approach to Life’s Challenges The Compassionate Mind reveals the evolutionary and social reasons why it’s easy to slip into anger, fear, and depression, despite the fact that our brains are hardwired to respond to kindness and compassion. Building on this latest research, this book offers many practical exercises to help deepen compassion towards ourselves and others. Far from fostering emotional weakness, compassion subdues our anger and increases our courage and resilience to depression and anxiety. Wisely used, compassion arms us with the strength to pursue genuine happiness, peace of mind, and peace in the world. PAUL GILBERT, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-8403 / US $24.95
The Joy of Parenting An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years In this guide, two ACT experts provide parents with the tools they need to cope with disruptive and oppositional behavior, acknowledge that they don’t have to be perfect, learn to recognize normal childhood transitions, and alleviate their own anxieties to become more responsive, flexible, effective, and compassionate parents. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com LISA W. COYNE, PHD, & AMY R. MURRELL , PHD foreword by Kelly Wilson, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-5938 / US $17.95
Stress Less, Live More How Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Can Help You Live a Busy yet Balanced Life Stress Less, Live More presents a program based in ACT that can help train the reader’s brain to react to stress in a different way. The mindfulness and acceptance techniques in this book will allow the reader to clear out mental clutter, enhance their focus, and concentrate on the present moment, so that they can channel their energy into what matters most to them. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com RICHARD BLONNA, EDD ISBN: 978-157224-7093 / US $16.95
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety Instead of trying to help readers overcome or reduce feelings of anxiety, this book will help them climb inside these feelings, sit in that place, and see what it would be like to have anxiety and still make room in their life to breathe and rest and live—really and truly live—in a way that matters to them. This book starts a conversation about why we all sometimes feel anxious and what role that anxiety serves in our lives. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com KELLY G. WILSON, PHD, & TROY DUFRENE ISBN: 978-157224-7116 / US $16.95
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new harbinger publications,inc. The Diabetes Lifestyle Book Facing Your Fears & Making Changes for a Long & Healthy Life The authors’ clinical trials suggest that diabetes patients who receive ACT training are more likely to comply with treatment directions and keep on top of blood sugar management. The result: healthier patients living longer, richer, more rewarding lives. This book includes a complete program for ACT-based diabetes management.
ACT Verbatim for Depression & Anxiety Annotated Transcripts for Learning Acceptance & Commitment Therapy This book presents clinical transcripts of actual therapy sessions, moderated by renowned psychologist and ACT cofounder Steven Hayes. The annotations teach therapists how to work through the core ACT processes and how to deal with common situations encountered in therapy sessions.
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com JENNIFER A. GREGG, PHD, GLENN M. CALLAGHAN, PHD, & STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD foreword by Michael singer, MD
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com MICHAEL P. TWOHIG, PhD, & STEVEN C. HAYES, PhD ISBN: 978-157224-5235 / US $39.95
ISBN: 978-157224-5167 / US $16.95
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Talking ACT
The Everyday Practice of Finding Stillness Amid Rushing Thoughts
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Notes & Conversations on Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Subscribers to the ACT Listserv know about the wealth of original, innovative thinking that takes place in that useful forum. This book, edited by British psychotherapist David Chantry, records a number of rich discussions from the archives of the Listserv into an easyto-read account of the development of this exciting model.
This book offers lighthearted practices drawn from ACT to teach readers how to observe their thoughts without judging or trying to control them. It explains a key process in the hexaflex model, making it easy to really “get” defusion and learn to live with the confounding and marvelous word-making, story-telling machine that is the human mind.
edited by DAVID CHANTRY ISBN: 978-187897-8585 / US $44.95
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ISBN: 978-157224-5341 / US $16.95
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain
Living Beyond your Pain Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Ease Chronic Pain A book that breaks with conventional notions of pain management. The ACT approach to chronic pain assumes that pain is a normal part of living. Attempts to avoid it often cause more harm than good. By accepting and learning to live with pain, readers learn to limit the control it exerts over their lives. JOANNE DAHL , PHD, & TOBIAS LUNDGREN, MS foreword by STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-4092 / US $21.95
A book for professionals that develops ACT processes into a treatment protocol for clients wrestling with chronic pain. Use it with Living Beyond Your Pain by Dahl and Lundgren to develop and support a structured ACT approach to helping sufferers of chronic pain. JOANNE C. DAHL , Kelly G. WIlson, Carmen Luciano & Steven C. Hayes ISBN: 978-187897-8523 / US $39.95
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialec tic al behavior ther apy (DBT ) has brought hope for recovery to countless people suffering from comple x mental he alth problems . Before DBT poured out of Marsha Linehan’s research laboratory about 20 years ago, getting help for borderline personality disorder (BPD) and related problems was much like wandering the desert looking for water. Sometimes, water was available, but it was almost never enough, and at other times, those who provided the water were inhospitable. DBT became one of the first consistent and reliable water sources when Linehan published results from her first randomized trial of DBT (the first published randomized trial of any treatment specifically for BPD). Moreover, the tremendous enthusiasm with which this compassionate, practical, and non-judgmental treatment has been embraced and adopted around the world has softened some of the hostile terrain in which our patients used to wander. As a result, DBT has not only instilled hope, but it also has brought a message of compassion that, I believe, has been chipping away at some of the stigma surrounding those with BPD and related problems. Interestingly, when Linehan was developing DBT, she had actually set out to develop a treatment that would work for highly suicidal women, not necessarily for BPD. As she tried to apply standard cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with these women, many of whom had BPD, she learned from her successes and failures that effective treatment required a sophisticated balance of acceptance and change. She then used the best available science, as well as the wisdom of her clinical experiences with these women, to piece together a treatment that was not only palatable but also very effective. Not only did therapists need to accept and understand their patients, but the patients needed to learn how to accept themselves, their thoughts, emotions, situations, and others. DBT became one of the first therapies to systematically help clients learn how to live in the present, become more mindful, and accept reality
exactly as it is. At the same time, DBT employs the best of behavioral science to not only keep patients alive, but also to develop lives worth living. In this way, patients learn not only to find water, but also to build liveable homes. Although the research evidence clearly shows that DBT works (there are over a dozen randomized clinical trials, numerous additional trials and studies), over the past several years, we have begun to learn a lot about how and why DBT works and to expand the horizons of DBT beyond standard outpatient therapy for persons with BPD. For example, adaptations of DBT have emerged for suicidal adolescents (with a large, multi-site trial underway as we speak), older adults with depression, suicidal college students, patients with bipolar disorder, and prisoners in the correctional system, to name just a few. Moreover, studies are beginning to investigate mechanisms of change in DBT (including some exciting work on brain changes through DBT); we are starting to learn whether and when the whole treatment (individual therapy, skills training) is necessary and when we can use a trimmed down treatment package; and we are discovering what predicts successful outcomes in DBT. As this work continues, it will be increasingly important to disseminate DBT theory, research, and practice to front line clinicians. Behavioral Tech, LLC. (founded by Marsha Linehan), has taken the lead as a training organization devoted to the dissemination and training of clinicians in compassionate, evidence-based treatments for complex mental health problems. This special section on DBT also represents New Harbinger’s strong commitment to the dissemination of DBT resources. New Harbinger has made some big strides in this area, publishing several practical guides to different aspects of DBT for clinicians and for clients struggling with a variety of difficulties, such as anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, among others. I look forward to seeing where both science and dissemination efforts with DBT will take us and those we are trying to help in the coming years. —ALex ander L . CHapman, phd, associate professor, Simon Fraser University
AL e x a n d e r L . CH a pm a n , P H D, is associate professor in the department of psychology at Simon Fraser University, a practicing registered psychologist, and president of the DBT Centre of Vancouver. He has published numerous articles and chapters on dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), trains professionals and students in DBT, and has coauthored books on behavior therapy, borderline personality disorder, and self-harm. In 2011, he received a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Career Investigator Award to support his work on borderline personality disorder, as well as a Canadian Psychological Association Early Career Scientist Practitioner Award for his work integrating research and treatment in DBT.
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In my twenty-two years in the field, I have not encountered a more comprehensive guide to managing one’s emotions. I will be recommending this book to my patients. —Jody Joseph Levac, MSW, RSW, PhD, director of mental health at Southlake Regional Health Centre
Calming the Emotional Storm Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Manage Your Emotions & Balance Your Life This book is a guide to coping with difficult emotions calmly and responsibly by using powerful skills from dialectical behavior therapy. This method combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to change the way readers respond to stressful situations. By practicing these skills, readers can stop needless emotional suffering and develop the inner resilience that will help them weather any emotional storm. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety Breaking Free from Worry, Panic, PTSD & Other Anxiety Symptoms Dialectical behavior therapy offers a set of skills for managing emotional distress that are useful for all people, but can be especially beneficial for anxiety sufferers who are prone to panic attacks, exaggerated worries and fears, and obsessive and compulsive behaviors. Although these skills are not currently taught in many anxiety treatment programs, new research shows that they can dramatically improve anxiety symptoms and related problems that people with anxiety face. This workbook also includes strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, the traditional therapeutic treatment for anxiety, and shows how the two approaches can be used together to defeat anxious thoughts and impulses and put an end to anxiety-related flashbacks, nightmares, stress, panic attacks, and avoidance. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW
Alexander L . Chapman, PhD, Kim L . Gratz, PhD, & Matthew T. Tull, PhD
ISBN: 978-16088-20870 / US $16.95
ISBN: 978-157224-9547 / US $24.95
End Emotional Eating Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Cope with Difficult Emotions & Develop a Healthy Relationship to Food This book offers skills based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for alleviating readers’ reliance on emotional eating. New and emerging research indicates that DBT, while originally developed to treat borderline personality disorder (BPD), can dramatically improve anyone’s ability to handle the outof-control emotions that are often at the root of this eating pattern. Readers learn to experience cravings without acting on them and enjoy food while respecting their bodies and their health. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
The Stress Response How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Free You from Needless Anxiety, Worry, Anger & Other Symptoms of Stress This book is the first to offer a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) program for coping with extreme stress in healthier ways. The four DBT skills can help those prone to overreactions and other negative responses to stress to embrace imperfections, expand their options, and soothe themselves in stressful situations. The book invites readers to explore their personal stress reactions and practice these new methods of solving the everyday problems that trigger stress. Readers also learn to accept their most stressed-out emotions and thoughts without judging them, and gradually decrease their vulnerability to stress.
Jennifer L . Taitz, PsyD Foreword by Debra L . Safer, MD
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
ISBN: 978-16088-21211 / US $17.95
ISBN: 978-16088-21303 / US $17.95
Christy Matta, MA
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy Strongly recommended for teens whose moods interfere with their ability to enjoy life and relationships.
The authors of this book speak directly to youth in a respectful and genuine manner.
—Marilyn Becker, MSW, RSW, clinical supervisor at Addiction Services for York Region
—Janice Phillips, BEd, educator and mental health social worker
for teens
Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills for Helping You Manage Mood Swings, Control Angry Outbursts & Get Along with Others In this book, teen readers will find new ways of managing their feelings so that they’ll be ready to handle anything life sends their way. Based in dialectical behavior therapy, this workbook helps young readers learn the skills they need to ride the ups and downs of life with grace and confidence.
for teens
The Bipolar Workbook for Teens DBT Skills to Help You Control Mood Swings This workbook includes exercises and worksheets that will help readers with bipolar disorder learn skills drawn from DBT. These skills will help them find balance, become more independent, and stay focused on the big-picture goals that are most important to them. DBT skills can help people with bipolar disorder improve their relationships with friends and family and calm themselves when their emotions become overwhelming.
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Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
SHERI VAN DIJK, MSW
SHERI VAN DIJK, MSW, & KARMA GUINDON, MSW
ISBN: 978-157224-8830 / US $16.95
Instant Help Books, A Division of New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 978-157224-6966 / US $16.95
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The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Diary
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
Monitoring Your Emotional Regulation Day by Day
Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & Distress Tolerance
This book presents an overview of each of the four DBT skills—distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—and includes a journal clients can use each day to monitor their successes, chart their progress, and stay on track making productive changes in their lives.
By a distinguished team of authors, this workbook offers readers unprecedented access to the core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), formerly available only through complicated professional books and a small handful of topical workbooks. Each of the four skill-sets— distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—is developed into basic and advanced exercises, each presented in a clear and interactive, step-by-step format. A must-read for therapists, DBT group leaders, and anyone trying to use this new method to make real and lasting change in his or her life.
With this diary, readers will: • Learn over twenty techniques to use when feeling overwhelmed • Observe and record their progress each day • Find out which coping strategies work best • Discover nutrition and lifestyle changes that can make a difference Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
MATTHEW MCKAY, PHD, & JEFFREY C. WOOD, PSYD
MATTHEW McK AY, PHD, JEFFREY C. WOOD, PSYD, & JEFFREY BRANTLEY, MD
ISBN: 978-157224-9561 / US $15.95
ISBN: 978-157224-5136 / US $22.95
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Clear, concise, and very readable, filled with wise guidelines that are rewarding and practical to implement.
I highly recommend this workbook to sufferers and mental health professionals alike.
—Stephen B. Stokl, MD, FRCP, Southlake Regional Health Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
—Daniel le Grange, PhD, professor and director of the eating disorders program at the University of Chicago
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bulimia
Using DBT to Regain Control of Your Emotions & Your Life
Using DBT to Break the Cycle & Regain Control of Your Life
This workbook helps readers integrate the effective coping skills they’ve already developed with a new and effective DBT plan for living well with bipolar disorder. The four DBT skills readers learn in this workbook help them manage emotional ups and downs and minimize the frequency and intensity of depressive and manic episodes. By using this book in conjunction with medication and professional care, your clients will soon experience relief from bipolar symptoms and come to enjoy the calm and confident feeling of being in control. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com SHERI VAN DIJK, MSW foreword by Zindel V. Segal, PHD
This book is for people who attempt to calm intense, negative emotions through their bulimia—people who feel that by controlling their weight, they will be able to better control their lives. Readers use skills drawn from DBT and motivational interviewing to regulate their emotions in effective ways that are healthy for mind and body. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
ELLEN ASTRACHAN-FLETCHER, PHD, & MICHAEL MASLAR, PSYD ISBN: 978-1572246195 / US $21.95
ISBN: 978-1572246287 / US $21.95
The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions
Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Help Your Child Regulate Emotional Outbursts & Aggressive Behaviors
A complete overview of borderline personality disorder (BPD), its symptoms and treatment, and ways BPD sufferers can navigate their lives with this complicated condition—all organized as a series of answers to common questions. DBT and its application to BPD figure prominently in the book’s treatment section. Readers learn a range of useful coping skills that can help them manage emotions, deal with suicidal thoughts, and cope with some of the most distressing symptoms of BPD.
This book provides DBT strategies and skills to parents of children with explosive emotions. Parents learn to understand and accept their children’s emotion dysregulation and practice mindfulness and validation skills that will enable them to remain calm instead of getting caught up in a child’s emotional storm. This wellresearched method for managing emotions can help children make dramatic emotional and behavioral changes both parents and children be proud of.
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com ALEXander L. CHAPMAN, PHD, & KIM L. GRATZ, PHD Foreword by Perry D. Hoffman, PHD
Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com PAT HARVEY, LCSW-C, & JEANINE A. PENZO, LICSW ISBN: 978-1572246492 / US $18.95
ISBN: 978-1572245075 / US $16.95
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy An invaluable and efficient resource for the substantial portion of clients who can benefit from DBT. —A. Thomas Horvath, Practical Recovery Services in San Diego, CA
Depressed & Anxious The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety A workbook for readers struggling with co-occurring depression and anxiety. This step-by-step program develops the four DBT skill sets into a sensible program for regulating out-ofcontrol emotions, minimizing distressing symptoms, and avoiding relapse after recovery. By teaching readers how to monitor and limit negative self-evaluations and how to best tolerate negative experience, this book offers a powerful set of tools for the recovery. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com THOMAS MARRA, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-3637 / US $21.95
DON’T LET YOUR EMOTIONS RUN YOUR LIFE How Dialectical Behavior Therapy Can Put You in Control This general, DBT-based approach offers readers a simple and effective approach to learning to regulate emotions, engage with and accept distress, practice mindful awareness, and become more effective when relating to others. A genuine “ all-purpose” method, this book is appropriate for a whole range of symptoms. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com SCOTT E. SPRADLIN, MA ISBN: 978-157224-3095 / US $19.95
FREEDOM FROM SELF-HARM Overcoming Self-Injury with Skills from DBT & Other Treatments This complete guide to stopping self-injury gives readers the facts about self-harm, corrects common myths about this behavior, and provides self-soothing techniques readers can begin using right away for regulating difficult or overwhelming emotions. The book also includes self-assessment worksheets, guidance for seeking professional help, and information about the most effective therapies and medications. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com
Dialectical behavior therapy in private practice
KIM L . GRATZ, PHD, & ALEXANDER L . CHAPMAN, PHD foreword by BARENT WALSH, PHD
A Practical & Comprehensive Guide
ISBN: 978-157224-6164 / US $19.95
Includes a CD-ROM with client worksheets
More than just a new behavioral treatment approach, DBT marks a whole new theoretical orientation to the practice of clinical psychology—a rethinking of the causes, descriptions, and treatments of acute mental disorders. This volume offers a detailed explication of DBT in theory and practice and is designed to teach professionals how to use this method in a private-practice setting to treat a range of disorders. The book also includes a CD-ROM containing client worksheets and PowerPoint presentations to lead psychoeducational sessions with clients. THOMAS MARRA, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-4207 / hardcover + CD-ROM / US $57.95
The High-Conflict Couple A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy & Validation Many of the tried-and-true techniques of couples counseling are not effective for highly reactive individuals. This book adapts the powerful techniques of DBT into skills couples can use to tame out-of-control emotions that flare up in every relationship. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, readers learn how to de-escalate angry situations before they have a chance to explode into destructive fights. Also available as an e-book at newharbinger.com ALAN E. FRUZZETTI, PHD foreword by MARSHA M. LINEHAN, PHD ISBN: 978-157224-4504 / US $16.95
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Coming soon‌ Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Brief Interventions for Radical Behavior Change Principles & Practices of Focused Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Kirk Strosahl, PHD, Thomas Gustavsson, MSC, & Patricia Robinson, PHD
Mindfulness & Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors Applying Contextual CBT to Substance Abuse & Behavioral Addictions Edited by Steven C. Hayes, PHD, & Michael E. Levin, ma
available November 2012
available October 2012
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The Clinicians Guide to Exposure Therapies for Anxiety Spectrum Disorders
Overcoming Trauma & PTSD
Integrating Techniques & Applications from CBT, DBT & ACT Timothy A. Sisemore, PHD
Sheela Raja, PHD Foreword by Lisa M. Najavits, PHD
available December 2012
available December 2012
The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety & Shyness Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Free Yourself from Fear & Reclaim Your Life Jan E. Fleming, MD & Nancy L . Kocovski, PHD Foreword by Zindel V. Segal, PHD
A Workbook Integrating Skills from ACT, DBT & CBT
The Mindful & Effective Employee An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Training Manual for Improving Well-Being & Performance Paul E. Flaxman, PhD, Frank W. Bond, PhD, & Fredrik Livheim, MS
available May 2013
available January 2013
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
The PTSD Workbook for Teens
DBT Made Simple
Simple Effective Skills for Healing Trauma
A Step-by-Step Guide to Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Libbi Palmer, PSYD
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW
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