Walser, Robyn D.

Acceptance & commitment therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder & trauma-related problems : a practitioner's guide to using mindfulness & acceptance strategies / Acceptance and commitment therapy for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma-related problems Robyn D. Walser, Darrah Westrup. - Oakland, CA : New Harbinger Publications, c2007. - ix, 255 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. + 1 CD-ROM.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.

Introduction -- Acceptance, mindfulness, and trauma : the problem of experiential avoidance and the verbal nature of trauma -- Mindfulness and acceptance -- Preparing to begin -- Creative hopelessness : finding the place where something new can happen -- Control as the problem : experiential avoidance and unworkable solutions -- Willingness -- Self-as-context -- Valued living -- Committed action -- Therapist and treatment considerations -- Clinical issues and assessment -- Conclusion : opening to vitality.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.


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9781572244726 (hbk.) 1572244720 (hbk.)

2006102707


Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.
Acceptance and commitment therapy.
Psychic trauma--Treatment.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic--therapy.
Cognitive Therapy--methods.
Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute--therapy.

RC552.P67 / W374 2007

616.85/2106