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News&Welcome
ACT Anxiety Treatment Guide Is Out
 We
want to let everyone know that our book “Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: A practitioner's treatment guide
to using mindfulness, acceptance, and value-based behavior change
strategies” is finally out. 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.
(click
here for a pdf book flyer).
In a lucid and readable style, the book brings to life the ACT
approach to alleviating human suffering.
Clear, 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.
It offers strategies that work to remove barriers to
change and foster meaningful movement forward. Theoretical information
in the book is supported by detailed examples of individual therapy
sessions, worksheets, and experiential exercises—as well
as new assessment measures that make learning and teaching these
techniques easy and engaging. The book comes with a CD-ROM that
includes easily reproducible electronic versions of these materials.
The purpose of this website
is to provide information about the ACT approach for anxiety
disorders (or our book), and ACT-relevant resources for mental
health professionals using
ACT to treat
persons suffering
from anxiety disorders and a range of other problems.
We’re also using the book as a manual for a large RCT with Michelle Craske at
UCLA where we compare it with traditional control-oriented CBT. If anyone of
you end up using the manual, we’d love to hear from you about your experience
with it.
-- John P. Forsyth, Ph.D. & Georg H. Eifert, Ph.D.
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