Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: A Practitioner's Treatment Guide to Using Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Values-Based Behavior

by Georg H. Eifert and John P. Forsyth

Book Overview

Acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT (pronounced as a word rather than letters), is an emerging psychotherapeutic technique first developed into a complete system in the book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven Hayes, Kirk Strosahl, and Kelly Wilson. ACT marks what some call a third wave in behavior therapy. To understand what this means, it helps to know that the first wave refers to traditional behavior therapy, which works to replace...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626251231
• ISBN13: 9781626251236
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.9"