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| The Problem and the Approach | |
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| The Dilemma of Human Suffering | |
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| The Underlying Assumptions of the Psychological Mainstream | |
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| The Assumption of Destructive Normality | |
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| The Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of ACT | |
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| Why the Level of Technique Is Not Adequate | |
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| The Need for Philosophy | |
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| Functional Contextualism | |
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| Relational Frame Theory and Rule Governance: The View of Language Underlying ACT | |
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| Summary: Implications of Functional Contextualism, Rule Governance, and Relational Frame Theory | |
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| The ACT Model of Psychopathology and Human Suffering | |
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| The System That Traps People | |
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| The Pervasiveness of Experiential Avoidance | |
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| The Destructive Effects of Experiential Avoidance | |
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| When Experiential Avoidance Can't Work | |
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| How Humans Get Drawn into a Struggle | |
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| ACT: Accept, Choose, Take Action | |
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| ACT as a Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| A Personal Exercise for Therapists | |
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| Clinical Methods | |
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| Creative Hopelessness: Challenging the Normal Change Agenda | |
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| Theoretical Focus | |
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| Clinical Focus | |
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| Informed Consent | |
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| Drawing Out the System | |
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| Confronting the System: Creative Hopelessness | |
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| Barriers to Giving Up the Unworkable System | |
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| Letting Go of the Struggle as an Alternative | |
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| Therapeutic Do's and Don'ts | |
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| Progress to the Next Phase | |
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| Personal Work for the Clinician | |
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| Clinical Vignette | |
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| Client Homework | |
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| Control Is the Problem, Not the Solution | |
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| Theoretical Focus | |
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| Clinical Focus | |
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| Giving the Struggle a Name: Control Is the Problem | |
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| How Emotional Control Is Learned | |
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| Examine the Apparent Success of Control | |
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| The Alternative to Control: Willingness | |
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| The Cost of Unwillingness | |
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| Therapeutic Do's and Don'ts | |
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| Progress to the Next Stage | |
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| Personal Work for the Clinician: Is Control the Problem? | |
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| Clinical Vignette | |
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| Client Homework | |
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| Building Acceptance by Defusing Language | |
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| Theoretical Focus | |
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| Clinical Focus | |
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| Attacking the Arrogance of Words | |
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| Deliteralizing Language | |
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| Undermining Reasons as Causes | |
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| Disrupting Troublesome Language Practices | |
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| Evaluation versus Description | |
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| Willingness: The Goal of Deliteralization | |
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| Therapeutic Do's and Don'ts | |
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| Progress to the Next Stage | |
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| Personal Exercise for the Clinician: Your Views of Yourself | |
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| Clinical Vignette | |
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| Client Homework | |
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| Discovering Self, Defusing Self | |
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| The Theoretical Focus: Varieties of Self | |
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| Clinical Focus | |
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| Undermining Attachment to the Conceptualized Self | |
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| Building Awareness of the Observing Self | |
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| Experiential Exercises with the Observing Self | |
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| Therapeutic Do's and Don'ts | |
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| Progress to the Next Phase | |
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| Personal Work for the Clinician: Is Your Self Getting in the Way? | |
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| Clinical Vignette | |
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| Valuing | |
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| Theoretical Focus | |
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| Clinical Focus | |
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| Valuing: A Point on the Compass | |
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| Outcome Is the Process through Which Process Becomes the Outcome | |
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| Values Clarification: Setting the Compass Heading | |
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| Assessment of Values, Goals, Actions, and Barriers | |
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| Willingness to Have Barriers and Barriers to Willingness | |
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| Therapeutic Do's and Don'ts | |
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| Progress to the Next Phase | |
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| Personal Work for the Clinician: Taking a Direction | |
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| Clinical Vignette | |
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| Willingness and Commitment: Putting ACT into Action | |
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| The Client's Quandary and the Way Out | |
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| Theoretical Focus | |
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| Clinical Focus | |
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| Experiential Qualities of Applied Willingness | |
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| Reconnecting with Values, Goals, and Actions | |
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| Committed Action as a Process | |
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| Committed Action Invites Obstacles | |
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| A Map for the Journey: FEAR and ACT | |
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| Primary Barriers to Committed Action | |
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| ACT as a Behavior Therapy | |
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| Termination and Relapse Prevention | |
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| Therapeutic Do's and Don'ts | |
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| Personal Work for the Clinician: Committed Action | |
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| Clinical Vignette | |
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| Client Homework | |
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| Using Act | |
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| The Effective ACT Therapeutic Relationship | |
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| Positive Leverage Points in ACT | |
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| Negative Leverage Points in ACT | |
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| The Therapeutic Relationship | |
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| Summary | |
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| ACT in Context | |
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| The Relevance of ACT in the 21st Century | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |