ACT with Anxiety : an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook to Get You Unstuck from Anxiety and Enrich Your Life.
In this engaging and easy-to-read workbook, Dr. Sears provides detailed explanations, case examples, and practical worksheets to show you how to work with your anxiety instead of trying to battle against it.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Eau Claire, WI :
PESI,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Praise for ACT with Anxiety
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Anxiety Trap and How to ACT
- Anxiety and the Problem of Avoidance
- Handout 1 1: Anxiety and the Avoidance Trap
- Handout 1 2: The Trauma Trap
- Handout 1 3: What to Do When You Can't Sleep
- Defining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Functional Contextualism
- The Power and Problems of Languaging
- The Reality of Suffering
- Psychopathology: What Goes Wrong
- Worksheet 1 4: Ways We Get Stuck
- The Hexaflex
- Handout 1 5: ACT to Get Unstuck
- Chapter 2: Setting Your Life Course: Does Anxiety Drive Your Life?
- Lack of Values Clarity/Contact
- Handout 2.1: Who's Driving, and Where Do You Want to Go?
- Values
- Ten Categories of Values
- Worksheet 2.2: Ten Domains of Values
- Helping Clients Connect with Their Values
- Worksheet 2.3: Superheroes or People You Admire
- Magic Wands and Typical Days
- Worksheet 2.4: And if You Had That, What Would That Give You?
- Worksheet 2.5: My Ideal Day
- When Clients Say They Don't Care
- Worksheet 2.6: Finding Your Values in Your Anxiety
- Chapter 3: Letting Go of What Is Not Working
- Psychological Flexibility
- Worksheet 3.1: Becoming More Flexible
- Cutting our Losses
- Handout 3.2: Caught in Quicksand and Trapped in a Hole
- Creative Hopelessness
- Worksheet 3.3: Letting Go of What Doesn't Work
- Willingness
- Handout 3.4: Willingness
- Chapter 4: You Are Not Your Anxiety: Expanding Your Sense of Self
- Attachment to a Conceptualized Self
- Self as Context
- Worksheet 4.1: Who Am I?
- The Chessboard Metaphor
- Handout 4.2: The Chess Game in Your Head
- The Sense of Self Across a Lifetime
- Handout 4.3: Expanding Your Sense of Self
- Processing the Exercise
- Moving to a Universal Context.
- Handout 4.4: Cosmic Self Meditation
- Chapter 5: Defusion: Letting Go of the Battle with Anxious Thinking
- Cognitive Fusion: Confusing Thoughts with Reality
- The Problem with Trying to Stop Thoughts
- Handout 5.1: The Futility of Trying to Stop Unwanted Thoughts
- Thoughts Are Just Sounds in Your Head
- Cognitive Defusion: Relating Differently to Thoughts
- Handout 5.2: Stepping Back from Anxious Thoughts
- ACT versus Traditional CBT
- Handout 5.3: Thought Trains Exercise
- Worksheet 5.4: Putting Your Thoughts Out in Front of You
- Shifting from Content to Process
- Worksheet 5.5: The Judgment Factory
- Worksheet 5.6: Math Problem or Sunset?
- Chapter 6: Acceptance: Letting Go of the Battle with Anxious Feelings
- Clean Anxiety versus Dirty Anxiety
- Handout 6.1: The Benefits of Anxiety
- Experiential Avoidance
- Handout 6.2: Riding the Waves of Anxiety
- Acceptance of Reality
- Acceptance of Our Own Emotions
- Handout 6.3: Cradling Your Anxiety Like a Baby
- Worksheet 6.4: Getting Perspective on Your Anxiety
- Acceptance and Trauma
- Breaking the Avoidance Cycle
- Posttraumatic Growth
- Responding Skillfully to Clients
- Memory Reconsolidation
- File Cabinet Technique
- Worksheet 6.5: File Cabinet Exercise
- Increasing Self-Compassion
- Handout 6.6: Generating Acceptance and Compassion for Self and Others
- Processing the Exercise
- Acceptance and Forgiveness
- Chapter 7: Just This Moment: Breaking Free from Future Worries and Past Regrets
- Dominance of the Conceptualized Past and Future
- Limited Self-Knowledge
- Mindfulness: Contact with the Present Moment
- Handout 7.1: Coming to Your Senses
- Mindfulness versus Meditation
- Handout 7.2: Just One Breath
- Structured Mindfulness Exercises
- Handout 7.3: The Three-Minute Breathing Space
- Mindful Inquiry
- Exploring Anxiety with Curiosity.
- Worksheet 7.4: Getting to Know Your Anxiety
- Chapter 8: Just Do It: Taking Committed Action
- Unworkable Action
- Just Do It: Committed Action
- Worksheet 8.1: Just One Thing
- Worksheet 8.2: Setting SMART Goals
- Increasing Willingness
- Handout 8.3: Just Do It!
- Acting with Anxiety: Exposure
- Exposure for External Avoidance
- Exposure for Internal Avoidance
- Worksheet 8.4: Tin Can Monster Exercise
- Resources
- References
- Photo Credits.