Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

The Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents

1st Edition - June 15, 2019
Authors: Koa Whittingham, Lisa Coyne
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide for Supporting Parents constitutes a principles-based guide for clinicians to support parents across various stages of child and adolescent development. It uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as an axis to integrate evolution science, behaviour analysis, attachment theory, emotion-focused and compassion-focused therapies into a cohesive framework. From this integrated framework, the authors explore practice through presenting specific techniques, experiential exercises, and clinical case studies.

Koa Whittingham

Koa Whittingham, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre within the Child Health Research Centre at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a registered psychologist in Australia with specialisations in both clinical and developmental psychology. She is also the author of Becoming Mum, a self-help book for the perinatal period grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy. Her research spans three key areas: parenting, neurodevelopmental disabilities, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and related approaches. She is passionate about the application of ACT to parenting research and intervention.

Affiliations and expertise

Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Australia Honorary Research Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia

Lisa Coyne

Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and is the Founder of the McLean Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute for Children and Adolescents (OCDI Jr.) at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Founder and Director of the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety (NECOA) and is a Fellow in the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). She is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice, and nearly 20 years of experience in the use of ACT with young people and families. Her research focuses on parenting in early childhood and the treatment of anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive disorder in children and adolescents.

Affiliations and expertise

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Founder of the McLean Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute for Children and Adolescents (OCDI Jr.), Harvard Medical School Founder and Director of the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety (NECOA) Fellow in the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)