Main description:

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.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Section One: Theoretical and Scientific Background 2. Parenting 3. Connect: the parent-child relationship 4. Shape: building a flexible repertoire

Section Two: The Bedrock of Clinical practice 5. Case Conceptualization 6. Therapeutic Relationship

Section 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