Learning ACT : An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills Training Manual for Therapists

Luoma, Jason B., Ph.D.; Hayes, Steven C., Ph.D.; Walser, Robyn D., Ph.D.

ISBN 10: 1626259496 / ISBN 13: 9781626259492

Editore: Context Press, 2017

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• Titolo: Learning ACT : An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills Training Manual for Therapists
• Editore: Context Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1626259496
• ISBN 13: 9781626259492
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: As New

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Riassunto

Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is among the most remarkable developments in contemporary psychotherapy and proven effective in the treatment of several mental health conditions-including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and more.

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Jason B. Luoma, PhD, is director of Portland Psychotherapy, a research and training clinic based on a social enterprise model that uses business revenue to fund scientific research, where he maintains a small clinical practice. As a researcher, Luoma studies shame, self-criticism, and the interpersonal effects of emotion as well as related interventions. He is a recognized trainer in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), former chair of the ACT Training Committee, and past president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor in the department of psychology at the University of Nevada. He has authored, coauthored, or edited nearly 600 scientific articles and book chapters, as well as forty-three books, including Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Relational Frame Theory, and The Wiley Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science. A past president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (which awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award), and of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, he is among the most cited psychologists in the world (http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/58). He has conducted hundreds of trainings in ACT, and has graduated near fifty doctoral students in his career.

Robyn D. Walser, PhD, is director of TL Consultation Services, and codirector of the Bay Area Trauma Recovery Center. She works at the National Center for PTSD developing and disseminating innovative ways to translate science into practice, and serves as assistant clinical professor in the department of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. As a licensed clinical psychologist, she maintains an international training, consulting, and therapy practice. Walser has coauthored four books: Learning ACT, The Mindful Couple, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems, and ACT for Clergy and Pastoral Counselors.