"This book is the first of its kind to provide concise answers to a range of philosophical, theoretical, conceptual, and practical questions raised by practitioners who are learning ACT. It will be of interest to psychotherapists, clinical psychologists,counsellors, psychiatrists, and a broad range of other mental health practitioners and trainees. It serves as a useful resource for those new to the practice of ACT, and for more experienced practitioners who might want to consider these questions themselves"--
In this book, Dawn Johnson and Richard Bennett have collated fifty of the questions that have most frequently been put to them whilst delivering ACT training and supervision to a wide range of therapists and other helping professionals.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based contemporary psychological approach to behaviour change that promotes the idea of people living more in line with their values whilst providing them with practical strategies for managing adversity. In this book, Dawn Johnson and Richard Bennett have collated fifty of the questions that have most frequently been put to them whilst delivering ACT training and supervision to a wide range of therapists and other helping professionals.
This book is the first of its kind to provide concise answers to a range of philosophical, theoretical, conceptual, and practical questions raised by practitioners who are learning ACT. It will be of interest to psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, and a broad range of other mental health practitioners and trainees. It serves as a useful resource for those new to the practice of ACT, and for more experienced practitioners who might want to consider these questions themselves.
Introduction. Part I: Defining the philosophy and theory of ACT.
1. What
is the best way to describe ACT to a client?
2. Which kinds of issues can ACT
help with?
3. What are the basic assumptions that ACT makes?
4. How does
evolutionary theory apply to ACT?
5. What is functional contextualism?
6. Why
do ACT practitioners answer every question with 'it depends'?
7. What is the
most important behavioural principle to remember?
8. What on Earth is
Relational Frame Theory?
9. Why does ACT use so many metaphors?
10. What is
the relationship between ACT and other cognitive behavioural therapies? Part
II: Conceptual questions about the ACT model.
11. What is psychological
flexibility?
12. What does creative hopelessness mean?
13. Is contact with
the present moment the same thing as mindfulness?
14. What is
self-as-context and how does it differ from defusion?
15. Doesnt acceptance
just equate to giving up and letting life steamroller you?
16. What is meant
by transformation of stimulus functions?
17. How do I tell values apart
from goals or rules?
18. How can I tell the difference between toward and
away moves when clients are taking action?
19. How does the concept of
compassion fit with ACT? Part III: Putting ACT into practice.
20. Do I need
to know RFT in order to practice ACT?
21. How do I know whether ACT is the
right intervention for someone?
22. Can ACT be adapted for diverse
populations?
23. Where do I start with introducing ACT to a client?
24.
Should I show the Hexaflex to my clients?
25. How do I explain each component
of the Hexaflex?
26. In which order should I work through the components of
the psychological flexibility model?
27. How can I encourage people to tune
in to the present moment?
28. How do I actually do self-as-context work with
a client?
29. How do I promote acceptance in sessions?
30. How do I know
which defusion procedure to use?
31. How do I deal with values conflict?
32.
So, I just get people to work out their values and encourage them to do
value-driven behaviour all the time, right?
33. Do I have to address all the
processes in every session?
34. How do I apply ACT with (insert diagnosis
here)?
35. How many sessions should a course of ACT intervention include?
Part IV: Developing skills as an ACT practitioner.
36. What do I need in
place in order to practice ACT safely and effectively?
37. Should ACT
practitioners practice ACT for themselves?
38. Why is experiential learning
better than didactic learning?
39. Why is there no formal qualification in
ACT?
40. How can ACT practitioners shape their learning?
41. Do I need
ongoing ACT supervision? Part V: Critical questions about ACT.
42. How strong
is the evidence for ACT?
43. Traditional CBT has a well-established evidence
base. Why does the world need ACT?
44. Isnt ACT just another case of the
emperors new clothes?
45. ACT uses a lot of eye-catching tools and
techniques. Isnt this all just a bag of tricks?
46. How does ACT fit within
a culture where the medical model dominates?
47. Is it not harmful to
encourage people to tune into and accept their pain and discomfort?
48. What
if people have harmful or antisocial values?
49. The client says, "Ive done
everything you suggested but it hasnt taken away my discomfort". What do I
do next?
50. What do I do if a technique does not work out like it is
supposed to?
Dawn Johnson works as a Clinical Psychologist in private practice, offering therapy, teaching, training, supervision, and consultation. She previously had a long career in the National Health Service and has extensive experience of adapting ACT to work with people with intellectual disabilities, neurodiversity, and severe mental health problems.
Richard Bennett works as a Clinical Psychologist and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist. He lectures at the Centre for Applied Psychology at the University of Birmingham and works at Think Psychology, the independent psychology practice he founded, which offers therapy, supervision, and training.
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