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Congratulations to Timothy Gordon, Jessica Borushok and The ACT Approach: A Comprehensive Guide for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on winning the gold medal at the 2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for editorial and design excellence in the Psychology category!
"Clearly written, entertaining, informative, and very clinically focused."
- Kirk Strosahl, PhD, cofounder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The ACT Approach is the ultimate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) resource all clinicians need to more their clients and therapy forward.
Combining the foundational knowledge of ACT with practical guidance, strategies, and techniques, you can begin to use ACT immediately with any client that walks through your door. Highly recommended by other ACT experts, this workbook is filled with unique tools you won't find anywhere else:
- Reproducible handouts & worksheets
- Mindfulness scripts
- Experiential exercises
- Transcripts from therapy sessions with line by line analysis
Includes specific case examples and treatment strategies for:
- Anxiety Disorders
- Depression
- Chronic Pain
- PTSD
- OCD
- Substance Use
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Adults, Children, Couples, Families and Groups!
Review
"The ACT Approach is a marvelous must have desk resource for any practicing therapist. Tim and Jessica present the ACT model in easy to understand terms, masterfully blend in various ACT concepts and associated techniques, and show the evolution of the model over the last two decades. They even supply highly useful client handouts that the therapist can use to support learning and offer very entertaining and useful experiential self-guided exercises for the therapist who is new to ACT. Through the use of clinical transcripts, which have unique sidebar commentaries, Jessica and Tim demonstrate how to use ACT principles with a wide range of common clinical problems. This book is a wonderful primer for any therapist who wants to learn ACT. It is clearly written, entertaining, informative, and very clinically focused. The book shows very clearly the authors' complete mastery of ACT concepts and clinical strategies. Highly recommended!" -- Kirk Strosahl, PhD, Co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
"Timothy Gordon and Jessica Borushok have written a superb therapeutic guide for conducting ACT. In clear prose, with engaging illustrative examples, they explain ACT and show how practitioners can use ACT to help their clients live meaningful lives consistent with their values. I strongly recommend it." -- Andrew Christensen, PhD, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Co-developer and author of Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)
Learning ACT is often confusing. This great book takes an interested clinician by the hand and leads them through a challenging learning path. Written by working clinicians for working clinicians, the book is engaging and clear. Particularly useful are the places where the authors discuss how they apply ACT principles to their own lives and the clinical transcripts. It seems the clinicians learn best by seeing the work. And the transcripts give a very clear sense of how to do ACT in a natural, non techique-y manner. Transitioning to ACT doesn t mean letting go of the clinical practices that work, but adding precision, scope and depth to the processes. I highly recommend this book. --Joanne Steinwachs, LCSW, Peer Reviewed ACT Trainer
As both a basic scientist and ACT researcher, I like that the authors have brought sufficient focus to these topics in the early parts of the book. However, having reviewed plenty of ACT books I must say that this one has a slightly different feel to it. Specifically, it is a hands-on and process focused account of ACT that I believe will be of huge and practical benefit to the people on the front lines of human suffering. --Nic Hooper, PhD, Co-author of The Research Journey of Acceptance and Com