Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders » (BK&CD-ROM)

Georg H. Eifert, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the department of psychology at Chapman University in Orange, CA. He was ranked in the top thirty of Researchers in Behavior Analysis and Therapy in the 1990s and has authored over 100 publications on psychological causes and treatments of anxiety and other emotional disorders. He is a clinical fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society, a member of numerous national and international psychological associations, and serves on several editorial boards of leading clinical psychology journals. He also is a licensed clinical psychologist. He is the author of The Anorexia Workbook and From Behavior Theory to Behavior Therapy.

John P. Forsyth, Ph.D., is associate professor and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has written widely on acceptance and experiential avoidance, and the role of emotion regulatory processes in anxiety disorders. He has been doing basic and applied work related to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for well over 10 years. He is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State, serves on the editorial boards of several leading clinical psychology journals, and is associate editor of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

Eifert and Forsyth are also authors of a forthcoming book*ACT on Life, Not on Anger*describing the application of ACT for persons struggling with problem anger. They routinely give talks and workshops on acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety and related disorders.

Foreword writer Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., is University of Nevada Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada in Reno, NV. He is the author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory, among many other books and articles, and he is one of the founders of acceptance and commitment therapy.

A Revolutionary Approach to Treating Anxiety Disorders

This much-anticipated book is the first how-to guide to offer a detailed and practical application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to the treatment of persons suffering from any of the broad class of anxiety disorders. In a lucid and readable style, the book brings to life the ACT approach to alleviating human suffering. The book provides clear and flexible, session-by-session guidelines for applying and integrating acceptance, mindfulness, and value-guided behavior change methods into a powerful and effective anxiety treatment approach. It offers strategies that work to remove barriers to change and foster meaningful movement forward. Theoretical information in the book is supported by detailed examples of individual therapy sessions, worksheets, and experiential exercises*as well as new assessment measures that make learning and teaching these techniques easy and engaging. The book comes with a CD-ROM that includes easily reproducible electronic versions of these materials.

From this much-anticipated book, therapists will learn how to integrate acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) treatments for anxiety disorders into their practices. It is the first text to adapt ACT principles and techniques specifically for the treatment of anxiety disorders, presenting them in a clear and systematic step-by-step format.