ACT Books: Specific Populations |
(The following list of books is from the LEARNING ACT RESOURCE GUIDE: The complete guide to resources for learning Acceptance & Commitment Therapy by Jason Luoma, Ph.D. Updated July 2020 learningact.com)
- ANGER
Therapist guides
- Contextual Anger Regulation Therapy: A Mindfulness and Acceptance- Based Approach (Practical Clinical Guidebooks)
Client books
- Act on Life Not on Anger: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger
- The Moral Injury Workbook: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills for Moving Beyond Shame, Anger, and Trauma to Reclaim Your Values
- ANXIETY
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Ultimate Guide to Using ACT to Treat Stress, Anxiety, Depression, OCD, and More, Including Mindfulness Exercises and a Comparison with CBT and DBT
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
- Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy: Treating Anxiety and Related Challenges
- ACT-Informed Exposure for Anxiety: Creating Effective, Innovative, and Values-Based Exposures Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- The Clinician’s Guide to Exposure Therapies for Anxiety Spectrum Disorders: Integrating Techniques and Applications from CBT, DBT, and ACT
- Trichotillomania: An ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Therapist Guide (Treatments That Work)
Client books
- The ACT on Anxiety Workbook
- The ACT Workbook for OCD: Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Exposure Skills to Live Well with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Anxiety Happens: 52 Ways to Find Peace of Mind
- Be Mighty: A Woman’s Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Use CBT to Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Intrusive Thoughts + A Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and ACT Techniques
- The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
- In This Moment: Five Steps to Transcending Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience
- Living Beyond OCD Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Workbook for Adults
- The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2nd Edition)
- The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Free Yourself from Fear and Reclaim Your Life
- Outsmart Your Anxious Brain: Ten Simple Ways to Beat the Worry Trick
- Social Courage: Coping and thriving with the reality of social anxiety
- Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
- Trichotillomania: An ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- The Worry Trap: How to Free Yourself from Worry & Anxiety Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- CANCER
Client books
- Flying over Thunderstorms: Living Your Life with Cancer through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- CHILDREN/ADOLESCENTS/PARENTING
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide for Supporting Parents
- Acceptance & Mindfulness Treatments for Children & Adolescents: A Practitioner’s Guide
- ACT for Adolescents: Treating Teens and Adolescents in Individual and Group Therapy
- Challenging Perfectionism: An Integrative Approach for Supporting Young People Using ACT, CBT and DBT
- Mindfulness and Acceptance for Counseling College Students: Theory and Practical Applications for Intervention, Prevention, and Outreach (The Context Press Mindfulness and Acceptance Practical Series)
- Teen Anxiety: A CBT and ACT Activity Resource Book for Helping Anxious Adolescents
- The Thriving Adolescent: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection
Client books
- Acceptance and Mindfulness Toolbox for Children and Adolescents: 75+ Worksheets & Activities for Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, Anger & More
- The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD
- Becoming Mum
- Dark Agents, Book One: Violet and the Trial of Trauma
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life
- The Gifted Kids Workbook: Mindfulness Skills to Help Children Reduce Stress, Balance Emotions, and Build Confidence
- The Joy of Parenting: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years
- The Mental Health and Wellbeing Workout for Teens: Skills and Exercises from ACT and CBT for Healthy Thinking
- The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Teen Anxiety: Activities to Help You Overcome Fears and Worries Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Instant Help Book for Teens)
- Nuna and the Fog
- Parenting a Troubled Teen: Manage Conflict and Deal with Intense Emotions Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance: A Powerful New Approach to Overcoming Fear, Panic, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Stuff That Sucks: Accepting What You Can’t Change and Committing to What You Can
- DEPRESSION
Therapist guides
- ACT for Depression: A Clinician’s Guide to Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy in Treating Depression
Client books
- The ACT Workbook for Depression and Shame: Overcome Thoughts of Defectiveness and Increase Well-Being Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression and Create a Life Worth Living (2nd Edition)
- DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
- Derived Relational Responding Applications for Learners with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities: A Progressive Guide to Change
- DIVERSE POPULATIONS
Therapist guides
- ACT for Gender Identity
- Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities: A Clinician’s Guide to Fostering Compassion, Connection, and Equality Using Contextual Strategies
- Mindfulness and Acceptance in Multicultural Competency: A Contextual Approach to Sociocultural Diversity in Theory and Practice (The Context Press Mindfulness and Acceptance Practica Series)
- EATING DISORDERS/BODY IMAGE
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Body Image Dissatisfaction: A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Values-Based Behavior Change Strategies
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Eating Disorders: A Process-Focused Guide to Treating Anorexia and Bulimia
- A Clinician’s Guide to Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns: The Accept Yourself! Framework
- ACT for Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide for Clinicians
- Mindfulness and Acceptance for Treating Eating Disorders and Weight Concerns: Evidence-Based Interventions
Client books
- The Anorexia Workbook: How to Accept Yourself, Heal Your Suffering, and Reclaim Your Life
- Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate: How to Let Go of Your Struggle with Body Image Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- The Diet Trap: Feed Your Psychological Needs and End the Weight Loss Struggle Using Acceptance and Commitment
- HEALTH/CHRONIC PAIN/INTEGRATED CARE
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain
- Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care: A Guide to Integrating Services
- Contextual Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain
- Mindfulness and Acceptance in Behavioral Medicine: Current Theory and Practice
- Psychological Treatment for Patients With Chronic Pain (Clinical Health Psychology)
- Real Behavior Change in Primary Care: Improving Patient Outcomes and Increasing Job Satisfaction
- Somatoform and Other Psychosomatic Disorders: A Dialogue Between Contemporary Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Perspectives
Client books
- Better Living With IBS: A step-by-step program to managing your symptoms so you can enjoy life to the full!
- The Diabetes Lifestyle Book
- End the Insomnia Struggle: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Get to Sleep and Stay Asleep
- Living Beyond Lyme: Reclaim Your Life From Lyme Disease and Chronic Illness
- Living Beyond Your Pain: Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Ease Chronic Pain
- INTERPERSONAL/RELATIONSHIP ISSUES
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples: Using Mindfulness, Values, and Schema Awareness to Rebuild Relationships
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Interpersonal Problems: Using Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Schema Awareness to Change Interpersonal Behaviors
- ACT and RFT in Relationships: Helping Clients Deepen Intimacy and Maintain Healthy Commitments Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory
- The Interpersonal Problems Workbook: ACT to End Painful Relationship Patterns
Client books
- ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- The Mindful Couple: How Acceptance and Mindfulness Can Lead You to the Love You Want
- LOSS/GRIEF
Client books
- The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts
- OCCUPATIONAL/COACHING
- Acceptance and Mindfulness at Work: Applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy And Relational Frame Theory to Organizational Behavior Management
- Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- The Mindful and Effective Employee: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training Manual for Improving Well-Being and Performance
- PSYCHOSIS
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis
- ACT for Psychosis Recovery: A Practical Manual for Group- Based Interventions Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Incorporating Acceptance and Mindfulness into the Treatment of Psychosis: Current Trends and Future Directions
- Treating Psychosis: A Clinician’s Guide to Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, and Mindfulness Approaches within the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Tradition
- RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Christian Clients: A Faith-Based Workbook
- ACT for Clergy and Pastoral Counselors: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Bridge Psychological and Spiritual Care
- Faith-based ACT for Christian clients: An integrative treatment approach
- SOCIAL WORK
- Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work
- SPORTS/HUMAN PERFORMANCE
- The Psychology of Enhancing Human Performance: The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment Approach
- The Winner’s Mind: Strengthening Mental Skills in Athletes
- SUBSTANCE ABUSE/ADDICTION
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Pathological Gamblers
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Substance Abuse: A Clinician’s Guide to Using Practical Mindfulness and Acceptance- Based Interventions for Alcoholism and Drug Addiction
- Investigating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy within Addictions
- Mindfulness and Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors: Applying Contextual CBT to Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions
- Mindfulness-Based Sobriety: A Clinician’s Treatment Guide for Addiction Recovery Using Relapse Prevention Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing
Client books
- Power Over Addiction: A Harm Reduction Workbook for Changing Your Relationship with Drugs
- The Wisdom to Know the Difference: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Substance Abuse
- TRAUMA/PTSD
Therapist guides
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems: A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Mindfulness and Acceptance Strategies
Client books
- Dark Agents, Book One: Violet and the Trial of Trauma
- Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems
- The PTSD Survival Guide for Teens: Strategies to Overcome Trauma, Build Resilience, and Take Back Your Life (The Instant Help Solutions Series)
- WORK/COACHING/BUSINESS
- Acceptance and Commitment Coaching (Coaching Distinctive Features)
- Acceptance and Mindfulness at Work: Applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy And Relational Frame Theory to Organizational Behavior Management
- Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups
- The Mindful and Effective Employee: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Training Manual for Improving Well-Being and Performance
- The psychology of enhancing human performance: The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) approach
- YOGA
- Mindful Yoga-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Simple Postures and Practices to Help Clients Achieve Emotional Balance