Main description:

1) The book provides updated, ACT-consistent metaphors and exercises for busy mental health professionals working with Christian clients

2) Mental health professionals will want to buy the book because ACT provides a flexible, evidence-based approach to working with clients with a variety of symptoms and disorders and their Christian clients may wish to turn to their own faith tradition for help with psychological suffering

3) Although there are a variety of ACT textbooks for mental health professionals and corresponding workbooks for their clients, there are no other ACT textbooks on the market, to my understanding, that focus on modifying ACT in a Christian-sensitive manner for working with Christian clients in psychotherapy.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Psychological Problems in the 21st Century 2. Differentiating Psychological Symptoms from Disorders 3. The Problem of Experiential Avoidance 4. Faith-Based ACT for Christian Suffering 5. Mary, Martha, Contemplation, and Action 6. Watching and Enduring 7. Noticing and Shifting 8. Committing and Following 9. Faith-Based ACT for Depression 10. Faith-Based ACT for Anxiety 11. Faith-Based ACT for Trauma 12. Faith-Based ACT for Relationship Distress