(4 reviews) Author: ISBN : 9781608823451 New from $31.91 Format: PDFAs a mental health professional, you know it’s a real challenge to help clients develop the psychological skills they need to live a vital life. This is especially true when you are working with time constraints or in settings where contacts with the client will be brief. Brief Interventions for Radical Change is a powerful resource for any clinician working with clients who are struggling with mental health, substance abuse, or life adjustment issues. If you are searching for a more focused therapeutic approach that requires fewer follow-up visits with clients, or if you are simply looking for a way to make the most of each session, this is your guide.
In this book, you’ll find a ready-to-use collection of brief assessment and case-formulation tools, as well as many brief intervention strategies based in focused acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These tools and strategies can be used to help your clients stop using unworkable behaviors, and instead engage in committed, values-based actions to change their lives for the better.
The book includes a practical approach to understanding how clients get stuck, focusing questions to help clients redefine their problem, and tools to increase motivation for change. In addition, you will learn methods for rapidly constructing effective treatment plans and effective interventions for promoting acceptance, present-moment awareness, and contact with personal values.
With this book, you will easily integrate important mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based therapeutic work in their interactions with clients suffering from depression, anxiety, or any other mental health problem.
- Paperback: 296 pages
- Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (October 1, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1608823458
- ISBN-13: 978-1608823451
- Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 5.8 x 8.8 inches
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Brief Interventions for Radical Change: Principles and Practice of Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy PDF
Kirk Strosahl's newest book is an ingenious application of one of the most important models in contemporary psychotherapy. Strosahl has somewhat quietly been a seminal figure in two of the most significant therapies in today's psychotherapy world: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). Both ACT and DBT have roots in radical behaviorism, and each adds an important new take on the roles of cognition, acceptance, and mindfulness. Nowhere are the theoretical and technological advances in the field on richer display than in this book. Although the focus is on brevity, this book is a road map for establishing a case conceptualization, cultivating a rich treatment relationship, and gently opening the door to life transformation. I have used this model for single session treatment; it applies equally well to long term therapy.By Scott D. Temple
Strosahl's writing is like a laser beam: concise, focused, clear. The model he espouses is practical; it invites the therapist to be disciplined, creative and spontanesou. The model is both practical and workable. Of particular interest is the way in which Strosahl shows how the brief ACT model can be applied equally well to children, adolescents and adults. And few books in the CBT world open the door to working with families and relationships the way that this book does.
Highly recommended.
Strosahl reviews our beliefs about what constitutes effective therapy, challenges our beliefs about what dysfunction is, and continuously explores what change should look like for a patient to be well. The book also reminds us to be aware of what a therapist's role is in facilitating change and provides an important, meaningful, and effective framework for doing so.By drjenna
Whether the clinician chooses to utilize Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) or not, the book also reminds the therapist to be mindful of transference, of the influence of social constructs and expectations, and of the ways that language can affect our perceptions of well-being.
This book has provided me with better tools as a therapist, and has helped me develop the skills necessary to be an effective FACT therapist.
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