| Description |
1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
A new Harbinger self-help workbook
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New Harbinger self-help workbook.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206). |
| Contents |
ACT: What It Is and How It Can Help You -- Suffering: Psychological Quicksand -- Ubiquity of Human Suffering -- Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Values -- Commitment and Values-Based Living -- Human Suffering -- Human Suffering Is Universal -- Exercise: Your Suffering Inventory -- Problem with Pain -- Exercise: The Pain is Gone, Now What? -- Problem with Pain: Revisited -- Living a Valued Life: An Alternative -- Why Language Leads to Suffering / John T. Blackledge -- Nature of Human Language -- Exercise: Relate Anything to Anything Else -- Exercise: A Screw, a Toothbrush, and a Lighter -- Why Language Creates Suffering -- Exercise: A Yellow Jeep -- Exercise: Don't Think About Your Thought -- What You've Been Doing -- Exercise: The Coping Strategies Worksheet -- Problem with Getting Rid of Things-Squared -- Experiential Avoidance -- Mind-Train -- Pull of Avoidance / Julieann Pankey, Kathleen M. Palm -- Why We Do What Can't Work -- Accepting the Possibility That Experiential Avoidance Can't Work -- So, What Are You Supposed to Do? -- Exercise: The Blame Game -- Exercise: Judging Your Own Experience: Examining What Works -- Moving On -- Exercise: What Are You Feeling and Thinking Now? -- Letting Go / John T. Blackledge, Michael Ritter -- If You're Not Willing to Have It, You Will -- Acceptance and Willingness -- Exercise: Why Willingness? -- Willingness and Distress -- Exercise: Being Willingly Out of Breath -- "Willingness to Change" Question -- Trouble with Thoughts / Jason Lillis. |
| Summary |
This book develops acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a revolutionary and exciting new direction in psychotherapy, into step-by-step exercises readers can use to get relief from emotional pain. Written by ACT's founding theorist, the book offers a self-help program proven to be effective for coping with a range of problems, from anxiety to depression, eating disorders to poor self-esteem. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Acceptance and commitment therapy.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy. |
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Spencer Xavier.
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| Added Title |
Get out of your mind and into your life |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hayes, Steven C. Get out of your mind & into your life. Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, ©2005 (DLC) 2005022640 |
| ISBN |
9781572247574 (electronic book) |
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1572247576 (electronic book) |
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9781608821433 (electronic book) |
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1608821439 (electronic book) |
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1572244259 |
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9781572244252 |
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