ACT Books: Specific Populations

ACT Books: Specific Populations
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)

The following list only includes ACT self help books in English. Click here for the list of books in 20+ languages.

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
  • ACT for Treating Children: The Essential Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Kids
  • 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 Kids: Fun Activities to Help You Deal with Worry, Sadness and Anger Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • 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
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