A practical guide that presents a user-friendly approach to helping patients enact radical change and acceptance through mindfulness in their personal lives.
--Family Medicine In this breakthrough book, cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Kirk Strosahl and two fellow ACT psychologists offer a brief, five-stage model to help you recognize, assess, and take advantage of the subtle shifts of awareness that occur during therapy to achieve the most effective intervention and successful treatment outcomes.
In therapy, it is essential for both clinicians and their clients to pay attention to each moment in-session as an opportunity to create change.
In addition, clients must be willing to experience pain in the present moment in order to make lasting change and begin to live according to their values.
But staying in the moment is harder than it sounds.
Inside This Moment offers a powerful skill set for learning to live in the now--even when it hurts.
To help you and your client make the most of your time in treatment sessions, this book includes clinical examples of working with clients via self-related processes, and offers tips for what to do when faced with certain non-verbal and verbal client behaviors, such as: looking away or downbody positioningrespiration rategiving general answers to specific questionschanging the topicforgetting what was askedrepeating oneself over and overchanges in rate of speechvoice volume You'll learn that you don't need to go looking for radical change opportunities--but rather that the opportunities are transpiring right in front of you.
This book will allow you to relax and trust in the power of the now in your therapy sessions.
About the Author: Kirk D.
Strosahl, Ph D, is cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a cognitive behavioral approach that has gained widespread adoption in the mental health and substance-abuse communities.
He is coauthor of Brief Interventions for Radical Change and other core ACT bo.
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