Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Essential Guide to the Process and Practice of Mindful Psychiatry

The traditional practice of psychiatry has been focused on reducing or eliminating distressing, unwanted symptoms. But what if the key to health and well-being is not to be symptom free, but rather to function effectively in life even when symptoms are present? What if symptoms serve an adaptive and motivational function, rather than being signals of a latent illness? What if the key to personal health is the ability to accept symptoms for what they are and to do what matters in life at the same time? This is the underlying proposition of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and this book—a collaboration among six clinicians from diverse practice backgrounds—is the first to systematically describe the principles and practices of ACT as they apply to psychiatric assessment, case analysis, and treatment.

Περιεχόμενα:

Part I. What Is ACT?
Chapter 1. Letters From the Front Lines: The Benefits of ACT in Psychiatric Practice
Chapter 2. An Overview of ACT: From Basic Behavioral Science Foundations to a Model of Human Resilience
Part II. How to Do ACT
Chapter 3. The Practice of Functional Psychiatry
Chapter 4. The Dance of Change: How to Treat Your Patient With CARE
Chapter 5. ACT Dancing: Strategies for Mastering the Clinical Conversation
Chapter 6. The Art and Science of Functional Psychopharmacology
Part III. ACT in Practice
Chapter 7. ACT in Outpatient Psychiatric Practice
Chapter 8. ACT in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Chapter 9. ACT in the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Chapter 10. Teaching ACT in Residency, Institutional, and Programmatic Settings
Index