Ann Bailey

Joseph Ciarrochi

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) practitioners who have integrated acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) strategies into their practices find this revolutionary third-wave treatment enormously effective. However, many encounter challenges due to the differences between the two therapeutic models. The CBT-Practitioner's Guide to ACT explains how to bridge the CBT-ACT divide and utilize both therapies for a powerful treatment approach. This practical guide, grounded in current research, clarifies how CBT and ACT differ, how they are similar, and includes all the information you need to begin incorporating ACT techniques into your clinical practice. Worksheets and exercises for both you and your clients appear throughout to help you seamlessly integrate the two therapies.

How to Bridge the Gap Between Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

A CBT-practitioner's Guide to ACT

Joseph V. Ciarrochi

Interest in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is expanding rapidly. Many of those who are interested in ACT are trained using a mechanistic cognitive behavioral therapy model (or MCBT). Utilizing both ACT and MCBT together can be difficult, because the approaches make different philosophical assumptions and have different theoretical models. The core purpose of the book is to help provide a bridge between ACT and MCBT. The emphasis of this book will be applied psychology, but it will also have important theoretical implications. The book will highlight where ACT and MCBT differ in their predictions, and will suggest directions for future research. It will be grounded in current research and will make clear to the reader what is known and what has yet to be tested. The core theme of A CBT-Practitioner's Guide to ACT is that ACT and CBT can be unified if they share the same philosophical underpinnings (functional contextualism) and theoretical orientation (relational frame theory, or RFT). Thus, from a CBT practitioner's perspective, the mechanistic philosophical core of MCBT can be dropped, and the mechanistic information processing theory of CBT can be held lightly and ignored in contexts where it is not useful. From an ACT practitioner's perspective, the decades of CBT research on cognitive schema and dysfunctional beliefs provides useful information about how clients might be cognitively fused and how this fusion might be undermined. The core premise of the book is that CBT and ACT can be beneficially integrated, provided both are approached from a similar philosophical and theoretical framework. The authors acknowledge that practitioners often have little interest in extended discussions of philosophy and theory. Thus, their discussion of functional contextualism and RFT is grounded clearly in clinical practice. They talk about what functional contextualism means for the practitioner in the room, with a particular client. They describe how RFT can help the practitioner to understand the barriers to effective client action.

A CBT Practitioner's Guide to ACT

Champagne for Tea consists of various stories. Old friends and new acquaintances touch each others’ lives, sometimes lovingly, sometimes dangerously. Jack Nielson, Emily’s husband, is having a midlife crisis. Emily is looking for love, and her eldest daughter is planning to marry, but to whom? And Helen Bennett, an embittered and scheming woman, is chasing Jack. Then, there is Rosie who has a dark secret; Michael Lee, who is looking for his father and, unfortunately, crosses Helen’s path; and Alison Waters who needs to find a man to fulfill her maternal instincts. Life is not perfect but in the end love prevails. “Champagne for Tea is bursting with colourful characters, dramatic settings and delicious plot twists. The characters are one of the story’s great strengths and the reader gets a real sense of who they are as people through their detailed back stories.” - Hollywood Coverage

Champagne for Tea

Some years ago, the Author of this book experienced a supernatural event. This true documented story entwines the death of a U.S.A soldier killed in 1944 with a Canadian soldier killed in 1992. Included in this book are spiritual ‘Prose and Poems’ which the author feels adds to the supernatural event and the existence of a spirit world. ‘InBetween Shadows’ will be of interest to readers of all Faiths since it strengthens Belief and helps to convince those who doubt. After all, there is only one universal God, one Truth, no matter which Prophet or Teacher we follow. This fascinating book also includes a bundle of ‘That’s Life’ poems.

InBetween Shadows

Russ Harris

Today's the day to start making real changes. Diet fads and fitness trends may offer the prospect of losing weight, but they rarely work out long-term. The Weight Escape is different. Using the psychological science of ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Dr Russ Harris, medical doctor and author of The Happiness Trap, psychological practitioner Ann Bailey and scientist Joseph Ciarrochi will help you make the lasting changes you want. Focusing on the mental barriers that can stop us setting and achieving our goals, it promotes a holistic approach to wellbeing and weight loss - one that goes beyond meal plans and calorie counting to give a deeper meaning and mindfulness to how you live and what you eat. Through practical exercises, quizzes and personal stories, it shows you how to: · Set goals and give direction to your life · Overcome destructive habits and exercise self-control · Deal with cravings and stressful situations · Develop self-acceptance. Get the weight-loss results you want - and so much more.

Stop fad dieting, start losing weight and reshape your life using cutting-edge psychology

The Weight Escape

Skip the diets and calorie counting—the bestselling author of The Happiness Trap reveals how mindful eating is the key to long-term weight control Using the mindfulness-based method called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Happiness Trap author Dr. Russ Harris, psychological practitioner Ann Bailey, and scientist Joseph Ciarrochi present a holistic approach to well-being and weight loss. Focusing on the mental barriers that prevent us from setting and achieving our goals, they go beyond meal plans and calorie counting to explain how you can apply mindfulness to your lifestyle and eating habits. Through practical exercises and personal stories they show you how to: · Set goals and give direction to your life · Overcome destructive habits and exercise self-control · Deal with cravings and stressful situations · Develop self-acceptance This book contains the tools you need not only to get the weight-loss results you want but to maintain a healthy weight—and a healthy sense of well-being—for the rest of your life.

How to Stop Dieting and Start Living

Rosie is a woman with a secret. Will loves her but is forced to solve her problem. With humour, trial and error, he manages to 'lay her victim to rest'. Helen will go to any lengths to get what she wants no matter the cost, no matter the chaos she causes others. Beware of Helen, perhaps she is dangerous, perhaps she is a Sociopath! Michael Lee is an angry young man, brought up by his mother who lied to him for years. Is it any wonder he is self-loving and scheming? Unfortunately, he becomes caught in his own web. Jack and Rob are close friends but perhaps Rob was not entirely honest with his past. Do you believe in poetic justice? Do you believe in happy endings? Well, yes, they do exist though not always as planned. "Leaves in the Tea" is a sequel to "An Innocent Cup of Tea" and takes the reader into the lives of characters, their past and how it affects their present. Of course, they are not all bad, just humans with frailties. Only some are more frail than others.

Leaves in the Tea

Diet fads and fitness trends may offer the prospect of losing weight, but they rarely work out long-term. The Weight Escape offers something life-changingly different. Using the mindfulness-based method called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dr. Russ Harris, author of the best-selling Happiness Trap; psychological practitioner Ann Bailey; and scientist Joseph Ciarrochi show you how to make the lasting changes you want. Focusing on the mental barriers that can keep us from setting and achieving our goals, they promote a holistic approach to well-being and weight loss—one that goes beyond meal plans and calorie counting to apply mindfulness to how you live as well as to what you eat. Through practical exercises and personal stories they show you how to: • Set goals and give direction to your life • Overcome destructive habits and exercise self-control • Deal with cravings and stressful situations • Develop self-acceptance This book contains the tools you need not only to get the weight-loss results you want but to maintain a healthy weight—and a healthy sense of well-being—for the rest of your life.

Louise L. Hayes

If you could only get past feelings of embarrassment, fear, self-criticism, and self-doubt, how would your life be different? You might take more chances and make more mistakes, but you’d also be able to live more freely and confidently than ever before. Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens is a workbook that provides you with essential skills for coping with the difficult and sometimes overwhelming emotions that stress you out and cause you pain. The emotions aren’t going anywhere, but you can find out how to deal with them. Once you do, you will become a mindful warrior—a strong person who handles tough emotions with grace and dignity—and gain many more friends and accomplishments along the way. Based in proven-effective acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), this book will arm you with powerful skills to help you use the power of mindfulness in everyday situations, stop finding faults in yourself and start solving your problems, how to be kinder to yourself so you feel confident and have a greater sense of self-worth, and how to identify the values that will help you create the life of your dreams.

Ann Bailey

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