
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents
Description
Key Features
- Explores the integration of ACT with established parenting approaches
- Includes a new model - the parent-child hexaflex - and explores each component of this model in depth with clinical techniques and a case study
- Emphasizes how to foster a strong therapeutic relationship and case conceptualization from an acceptance and commitment therapy perspective
- Covers the full spectrum of child development from infancy to adolescence
- Touches upon diverse clinical presentations including: child anxiety, neurodevelopmental disorders, and child disruptive behavior problems, with special emphasis on infant sleep
- Addresses how best to support parents with mental health concerns, such as postnatal depression
- Is relevant for both novices and clinicians, students in psychology, social work and educational professionals supporting parents
Readership
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Section One: Theoretical and Scientific Background
2. Parenting
3. Connect: the parent-child relationship
4. Shape: building a flexible repertoireSection Two: The Bedrock of Clinical practice
5. Case Conceptualization
6. Therapeutic RelationshipSection Three: ACT Processes
7. Values and Proto-values
8. Experiential acceptance of parent, child and relationship
9. Psychological contact with the present moment including shared psychological contact
10. Flexible languaging
11. Flexible perspective taking
12. Compassionate Context
13. Committed Action and Exploration
14. Integrating ACT with other interventions
15. Conclusion
Product details
- No. of pages: 426
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: June 15, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128146705
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128146699
About the Authors
Koa Whittingham
Affiliations and Expertise
Lisa Coyne
Affiliations and Expertise
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