Context Press imprint: 49 books
Assessing Mindfulness and Acceptance Processes in Clients
Illuminating the Theory and Practice of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
How does mindfulness work? Thousands of therapists utilize mindfulness-based treatments and have witnessed firsthand the effectiveness of these approaches on clients suffering from anxiety, depression, and other common mental health issues. But for many clinicians, the psychological processes and...
Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Positive Psychology
The Seven Foundations of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Many have wondered if there is a key ingredient to living a full and happy life. For decades now, scientists and psychologists alike have been studying the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive. The positive psychology movement was founded on the belief that people...
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work
Evidence-Based Interventions and Emerging Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Social work focuses on serving the most vulnerable members of society, and social workers must often address the contextual forces that contribute to human problems. Mindfulness and acceptance are powerful tools for this practice. By offering interventions like dialectical behavior therapy (DBT),...
The Self and Perspective Taking
Contributions and Applications from Modern Behavioral Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Helping clients cope with problems of self is an important goal of modern psychotherapy. However, without ways of understanding or measuring the self and self-relevant behavior, it’s difficult for psychologists and researchers to determine if intervention has been effective.
From a modern...
ACT and RFT in Relationships
Helping Clients Deepen Intimacy and Maintain Healthy Commitments Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Even if you are not a couples therapist, chances are you have dealt with clients whose problems are based in relationship issues. In order to successfully treat these clients, you must first help them understand what their values are in these relationships, and how their behavior may be undermining...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a highly functional discipline that, instead of searching for abstract, internal causes for human behavior, looks to external factors that can be influenced. Once identified, these factors can be manipulated to make meaningful, positive improvements in the lives...
Treating Co-occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Adolescents with Trauma and Substance-Abuse Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Research has shown that, for many teens, trauma can lead to addiction. Now, for the first time ever, two mental health experts offer a powerful, integrative program to effectively treat teens with these co-occurring issues.
Trauma and addiction often present side by side. However, up until...
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Multicultural Competency
A Contextual Approach to Sociocultural Diversity in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In recent years, mindfulness and acceptances-based therapies have gained immense popularity in the field of behavioral health. And as these therapeutic models have proliferated, their teachings and practices have been introduced to a wide range of diverse applications.
Cognitive behavioral...
Mindfulness and Acceptance in Behavioral Medicine
Current Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2011
Clinicians and researchers working in the field of behavioral medicine are in a unique position to help patients access a range of mindfulness and acceptance-based treatment methods for preventing disease, managing symptoms, and promoting overall health. Evidence-based mindfulness approaches such...
Mindfulness, Acceptance, and the Psychodynamic Evolution
Bringing Values into Treatment Planning and Enhancing Psychodynamic Work with Buddhist Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
If you are a psychodynamic therapist interested in the growing mindfulness movement, you may be looking for resources to help you enhance your practice. More and more, professionals in the psychodynamic tradition are finding that mindfulness exercises help their patients connect with the moment and...
The Thriving Adolescent
Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Adolescents face unique pressures and worries. Will they pass high school? Should they go to college? Will they find love? And what ways do they want to act in the world? The uncertainty surrounding the future can be overwhelming. Sadly, and all too often, if things don’t go smoothly, adolescents...
The ACT Matrix
A New Approach to Building Psychological Flexibility Across Settings and Populations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
If you are an ACT practitioner or mental health professional, this eagerly awaited resource is an essential addition to your professional library.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy that has been successful in treating a variety of psychological issues, such...
Gambling
Behavior Theory, Research, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The rise in legalized gambling in the United States over the last fifteen years has led to much debate among scientists and practitioners about how to conceptualize and study the phenomenon, treat persons who experience difficulties controlling their level of play, and prevent individuals from becoming...
ACT Questions and Answers
A Practitioner's Guide to 150 Common Sticking Points in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Renowned ACT expert Russ Harris presents easy-to-read Q&A sessions to uncover the most common ways clients and practitioners get stuck when using ACT, how to get unstuck, and how to transform that “stuckness” into powerful personal growth.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is...