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The Happiness Trap
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What if almost everything you believed about finding happiness turned out to be inaccurate and misleading? What if those very beliefs were making you miserable? Based on the insights and techniques of a new form of psychotherapy called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this unique and empowering self-help book offers key principles and techniques for escaping the “happiness trap” to create a full, rich, and meaningful life. It shows how mindfulness and acceptance can help us to handle painful throughts and feelings far more effectively, and find fulfillment in life. Learn proven techniques to:
- handle painful thoughts and feelings more effectively
- escape the grip of self-defeating habits
- rise above fears, doubts, and insecurities
- create a richer and more meaningful life
Buy from Amazon: The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living |
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ACT with Love
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Popular myths about love set us up for a struggle with real life. The inconvenient truth is there's no such thing as a perfect partner, all couples fight, and feelings of love come and go like the weather. But that doesn't mean you can't have a joyful and romantic relationship. Through a simple program based on the revolutionary new mindfulness-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), you can learn to handle painful thoughts and feelings more effectively and engage fully in the process of living and loving together.
With your partner or alone, ACT with Love will teach you how to:
- Let go of conflict, open up, and live fully in the present
- Use mindfulness to increase intimacy, connection, and understanding
- Resolve painful conflicts and reconcile long-standing differences
- Act on your values to build a rich and meaningful relationship
Buy from Amazon: Act With Love
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Is there a gap between where you are right now and where you want to be? Is a lack of confidence holding you back? We’ve all been stuck in the ‘confidence gap’. We want to find a better job, pursue a romantic relationship, enrol in a course, expand our business, or pursue our greatest dreams; but fear gets in the way and we don’t take action. Medical practitioner and life coach Dr Russ Harris has helped thousands of people overcome fear and develop genuine confidence. He uses a scientifically-proven approach known as Acceptance and Commitment Training, which employs ‘mindfulness’ – a state of openness, focus and awareness – to enable authentic long-lasting change. Compassionate, practical and inspiring, The Confidence Gap will help you identify your passions, succeed at your challenges and create a life that is truly fulfilling.
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The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression by Kirk D. Strosahl
Based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), an emerging new model of psychotherapy, this workbook offers a powerful new approach to depression. Learn how to handle depressing thoughts and feelings far more effectively, using mindfulness and acceptance skills - and simultaneously take effective action to improve your life.
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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life by Steven C. Hayes
In Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dr. Steven Hayes escorts the depressed, angry, and anxiety-prone through a new approach to handling suffering. Hayes is the creator/originator of ACT, and in this comprehensive workbook he helps readers identify their core struggles, parse these into manageable pieces, and develop effective ways to move beyond them, into a rewardign and meaningful life.
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Leave Your Mind Behind by Matthew McKay
This book offers a collection of light-hearted practices readers can use to learn to observe their thoughts without getting caught up in them. Each practice is grounded in a component of the new acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) called cognitive defusion: the process of "de-fusing" or not identifying or becoming one with your thoughts.
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Finding Life Beyond Trauma by Victoria M. Follette
If you've experienced trauma--whether as a result of common life events like accidents or abusive personal relationships or extraordinary experiences like war or natural disasters--you may find that the pain and emotional unease you feel don't go away over time. In fact, they may get worse. This book is about living life well after a traumatic event. It uses the powerful techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you take a different approach to painful feelings and chart a new course.
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Living Beyond Your Pain by Joanne Dahl
A rich and rewarding life is possible for those of us who live with chronic pain. Based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book breaks with conventional notions of pain management. Mindfulness exercises, in particular, help you transform pain from a life-defining preoccupation to a simple experience. From this strong position, you can make choices that will lead to the life you’ve always wanted.
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Act on Life Not on Anger by Georg H. Eifert
If you’d tried to control problem anger before with little success, this book offers you a new approach to try. Using techniques based in mindfulness practice, you’ll find out how to watch your anger without identifying with it. In the process, anger simply loses power over your life.
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The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety by John P. Forsyth
You can take back your life from anxiety without controlling anxious thoughts and feelings. You can stop avoiding anxiety and start showing up to your life. This book will get you started, using a revolutionary new approach called acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT. Your life will get bigger as your anxious suffering gets smaller.
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ACT made Simple
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ACT MADE SIMPLE is an easy-to-read, "basics and beyond" guide to using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in your coaching or therapy practice. Written by internationallly acclaimed ACT trainer Dr Russ Harris, (the best-selling author of The Happiness Trap, now translated into 15 languages) this book is an invaluable resource both for "absolute beginners" and advanced ACT practitioners.
"Russ Harris is brilliant in his ability to present complex clinical ideas in an accessible way." —Steven C. Hayes, original creator/founder of ACT
Buy from Amazon: ACT Made Simple
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Learning Act: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills-Training Manual for Therapists by Jason B. Luoma
ACT is profound, revolutionary-and it works. Research evidence is piling up that suggests ACT is as or more effective than conventional psychotherapeutic approaches.A DVD included with the text offers role-played examples of the core ACT processes in action on both audio and video. In these examples, a picture is worth a thousand words, bringing to life the concepts developed in the text.
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Act for Depression by Robert D., Ph.D. Zettle
The research-proven program outlined in the book introduces therapists to the ACT model on theoretical and case-conceptual levels. Written by one of the pioneering researchers into the effectiveness of ACT for the treatment of depression, this book is a much-needed professional resource.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes
"Once in a while, there is a unique contribution to psychotherapy. Even more rare is the grounding of that contribution in sound philosophy, on the one hand, and firm data, on the other. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy represents such an effort. In a truly creative leap forward, Hayes and his colleagues present a new approach to behavior change that is ‘must' reading for everyone in the field of psychotherapy or behavior therapy, as well as students entering the profession."--David H. Barlow, PhD
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Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For Chronic Pain by Joanne Dahl
Aimed at professionals working with clients who are stuck in chronic pain, this book provides both a new conceptualization of this difficult problem and practical guidelines about how to treat it from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) perspective.
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Acceptance and Mindfulness Treatments for Children and Adolescents by Laurie A. Greco
This book summarizes the diverse ways in which the third-wave therapies have been adapted for young people and their families. Chapters will summarize recent empirical advances as well as pragmatic issues related to acceptance and mindfulness applied to children and adolescents. In each chapter in the two applied sections, you'll be given practical clinical guidance that will show how to apply these methods.
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Robyn D.Walser
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) offers a promising, empirically validated approach to the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (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. Each chapter explains how to introduce these topics to clients suffering from PTSD, illustrates each with case examples, and offers homework for your clients to use between sessions.
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Mindfulness and Acceptance by Steven C. Hayes
"This is an outstanding and potentially pivotal book, a unique series of therapeutic techniques emphasizing mindfulness, acceptance, values, spirituality, meditations, emotional deepening, focus on the present with an emphasis on the emerging therapeutic relationship....Hayes, Follette, and Linehan have recruited an impressive list of cutting-edge researchers and practitioners to provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art."--Child & Family Behavior Therapy
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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders by Georg H. Eifert
A Revolutionary Approach to Treating Anxiety Disorders This much-anticipated book is the first how-to guide to offer a detailed and practical application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to the treatment of persons suffering from any of the broad class of anxiety disorders. The book provides clear and flexible, session-by-session guidelines for applying and integrating acceptance, mindfulness, and value-guided behavior change methods into a powerful and effective anxiety treatment approach.
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The Psychology of Enhancing Human Performance by Frank Gardner
A structured step-by-step, easy-to-use protocol for the understanding, assessment, conceptualization, and enhancement of human performance, using the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. (In the book, this is known as MAC: the Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment approach.) It is a protocol that can be readily adapted for a wide variety of high-performing clientele--from athletes and business people, to sales people, professionals in a variety of fields, and emergency/military personnel.
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Mindfulness for Two
You can spend years in graduate school, internship, and clinical practice. You can learn to skillfully conceptualize cases and structure interventions for your clients. You can have every skill and advantage as a therapist, but if you want to make the most of every session, both you and your client need to show up in the therapy room. Really show up. And this kind of mindful presence can be a lot harder than it sounds.
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