Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy examines the therapy's history and process, evaluates the therapy's evidence base and effectiveness, and suggests future directions in the therapy's development.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness processes, and commitment and behavior change processes to produce psychological flexibility. Steven C. Hayes, who helped develop ACT, and co-author Jason Lillis provide an overview of ACT's main influences and its basic principles.

In this succinct and understandable survey, the authors show how ACT illuminates the ways that language encourages unhelpful skirmishing in clients' psychic lives, and how to use ACT to help clients accept private experiences, become more mindful of thoughts, develop greater clarity about personal values, and commit to needed behavior change.

Author: Steven C. Hayes, Jason Lillis
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 05/15/2012
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.84w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9781433811531
ISBN10: 1433811537
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology | Compulsive Behavior
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | General

About the Author
Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. He is the author of 35 books and over 475 scientific articles. His career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. His work has been recognized by several awards, including the Exemplary Contributions to Basic Behavioral Research and Its Applications from APA's Division 25 (Behavior Analysis), the Impact of Science on Application Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Jason Lillis, PhD, is an instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a clinical psychologist at the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at The Miriam Hospital. He earned his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno, and completed his clinical internship at VA Palo Alto Health Care System, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in health services research at Stanford University. Dr. Lillis is a leading researcher and an internationally recognized trainer of acceptance and commitment therapy.