Main description:

*A bestseller, brought up to date: the definitive work on ACT, now fully revised with 75% new material.
*Presents a more fully developed model of ACT and elaborates on its relationship to other hot mindfulness-based approaches.
*Demonstrates how to intervene with clients to strengthen six key processes that promote psychological flexibility and well-being.
*Popular wherever mindfulness titles sell.

Contents:

I. Foundations and the Model
1. The Dilemma of Human Suffering
2. The Foundations of ACT: Taking a Functional Contextual Approach
3. Psychological Flexibility as a Unified Model of Human Functioning
II. Functional Analysis and Approach to Intervention
4. Case Formulation: Listening with ACT Ears, Seeing with ACT Eyes, with Emily K. Sandoz
5. The Therapeutic Relationship in ACT
6. Creating a Context for Change: Mind versus Experience
III. Core Clinical Processes
7. Present-Moment Awareness, with Emily K. Sandoz
8. Dimensions of Self
9. Defusion
10. Acceptance
11. Connecting with Values
12. Committed Action
IV. Building a Progressive Scientific Approach
13. Contextual Behavioral Science and the Future of ACT