By Steven C. Hayes PhD, Michael Levin MA
As a clinician or researcher within the box of psychological well-being or addictions, this booklet will give you strong perception into how recognition and mindfulness-based interventions are being effectively used to regard various addictive behaviors, starting from substance abuse to playing addiction.
Edited by means of Steven C. Hayes, a founding father of popularity and dedication remedy (ACT) and a global popular authority on mindfulness-based remedy, Mindfulness and recognition for Addictive Behaviors features chapters by way of best substance abuse and dependancy researchers. every one article illuminates the mindfulness and acceptance-based remedies that paintings top for specific addictive behaviors, reports empirical information, and discusses destiny instructions for examine and remedy purposes. a vital source for psychological future health and addictions pros, researchers, and scholars drawn to the simplest remedies for habit, this ebook will dramatically impression the best way addictions of every kind are seen and addressed in therapy.
during this e-book, you are going to learn how to practice mindfulness and recognition to aid sufferers with:
- Alcoholism
- Substance abuse
- Smoking cessation
- playing addiction
- Pornography addiction
- Binge eating
- Detoxification
- Self-stigma and shame
The Mindfulness and recognition Practica Series
As mindfulness and acceptance-based remedies achieve momentum within the box of psychological well-being, it really is more and more vital for pros to appreciate the entire diversity in their purposes. to maintain with the transforming into call for for authoritative assets on those remedies, The Mindfulness and popularity Practica Series was once created. those edited books conceal a number of evidence-based remedies, akin to recognition and dedication treatment (ACT), cognitive behavioral remedy (CBT), compassion-focused treatment (CFT), dialectical behavioral remedy (DBT), and mindfulness-based tension relief (MBSR) treatment. Incorporating new study within the box of psychology, those books are robust instruments for psychological wellbeing and fitness clinicians, researchers, complex scholars, and a person attracted to the expansion of mindfulness and attractiveness strategies.
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Derevensky, J. L. (1997). Familial and social influences on juvenile gambling behavior. Journal of Gambling Studies, 13, 179-192. Hayes, S. C. (2004). Acceptance and commitment therapy, relational frame theory, and the third wave of behavior therapy. Behavior Therapy, 35, 639-665. Hayes, S. , Strosahl, K. , & Wilson, K. G. (1999). Acceptance and commitment therapy: An experiential approach to behavior change. New York: Guilford Press. Hayes, S. , & Wilson, K. G. (2011). ). New York: Guilford Press.
Such evidence lends support to ACT’s emphasis on regular, ongoing behavioral engagement in valued activities. Assessment and Intervention In order to examine assessment and intervention, we will begin with a case study and partial opening dialogue with a client being treated using 36 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Addiction ACT. We will then draw upon the hypothetical client to demonstrate ACT processes in treatment. Case Study Andrea is a thirty-seven-year-old, single, Caucasian female who is currently employed as an English teacher at a community college.
There is nothing to accomplish here, nothing to be done other than notice. Whatever happens, breathe through it and let yourself come to rest. 44 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Addiction Practicing Our Way to Stillness— Part 2 As we continue, remember that this isn’t an exercise in what’s wrong with you, although those kinds of thoughts may well be called up. Just allow yourself to show up for those thoughts, even if they are very hard to bear. Remember that our purpose here is to help you practice coming to stillness when hard things are in front of you.