Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Dummies

Learn to: - Engage fully with your here-and-now experience - Create distance from unhelpful thoughts - Make room for painful feelings - Engage fully in your life despite anxiety, depression, stress, OCD and psychosis
Harness ACT to live the life you want to live
Do you want to change your relationship with the painful thoughts and feelings that are holding you back? With this down-to-earth guide, you'll discover how to identify negative and unhealthy modes of thinking and apply Acceptance and Commitment Therapy principles to create a healthier, richer and more meaningful existence with yourself and others. - Transform your life – find out how to apply ACT to your everyday life to help reduce the impact of stress, accept love, nurture relationships, cope with anger and manage pain - ACT for your health – discover how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to support complex mental health difficulties, such as addiction, psychosis, depression and anxiety - Keep an open mind – get familiar with the basic ideas underpinning ACT and find lots of exercises to practice the core skills that help us be open, aware and active—and how to apply these practices to your life - Principles and perspectives – learn about the theory and concepts behind ACT and how it's providing new insights into human consciousness, mental health and the mind
Open the book and find: - Advice on living a life with meaning - How to use ACT understand our true 'selves' - Ways to manage anger and stress with ACT - Guidance on using ACT when living with chronic pain - How to use ACT to treat addiction and mental distress - The best ways to increase defusion and acceptance - Top tips for living mindfully

Freddy Jackson Brown is a clinical psychologist and has worked in the NHS for over 20 years. Duncan Gillard is a Senior Educational Psychologist and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy practitioner. He provides psychological services to children, young people, families and school-based professionals.