Kirk Strosahl, PhD, is cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a cognitive behavioral therapy that has gained widespread adoption in the mental health and substance abuse community. He is author of numerous articles on the subjects of primary care behavioral health integration, using outcome assessment to guide practice, and strategies for working with challenging, high-risk, and suicidal clients.
"An excellent use of this book would be as a teaching supplement
for residents or medical students in a course led by a therapist or
clinical psychologist. The bottom line is that this is a practical
guide that presents a user-friendly approach to helping patients
enact radical change and acceptance through mindfulness in their
personal lives. Although mostly helpful to therapists and
psychologists, for those primary care providers who have the time
to practice and use this method in their clinics, it could also
potentially be a very powerful tool. Overall it is interesting and
useful to understand the theory and practice, even for physicians
not using it themselves on a daily basis with patients."
--Family Medicine
"In this well-written and thoughtful book, Kirk Strosahl, Patricia
Robinson, and Thomas Gustavsson have paved a path to my personal
clinical heart. They have tapped into and conveyed, with a clear
and engaging voice, my favorite 'quality' of psychotherapy--the
present moment. In Inside This Moment, the authors provide a truly
useful guide for clinicians, assisting them to understand and build
life-changing moments in the therapeutic process and relationship.
The five essential tasks involved in creating these powerful
moments--noticing, naming, detaching, holding, and expanding--are
explored with clinical acuity and neuroscience backing. This book
will help you to help your clients transform their lives. It is my
belief that working to develop present-moment awareness is the soul
of acceptance and commitment therapy, and Strosahl, Robinson, and
Gustavsson have beautifully and knowledgably put this process into
words."
--Robyn D. Walser, PhD, past president of the Association for
Contextual Behavioral Science, associate director for dissemination
and training at the National Center for PTSD, assistant clinical
professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and coauthor
of The Mindful Couple and Learning ACT
"There are several reasons why I feel this book is a significant
contribution to our field. First, as a longtime practitioner who
uses the notion of 'present moment' in my work with clients, the
authors have cleared up a sticky concept that I have struggled
with--that is, what is actually meant by the 'present moment.' They
do so in a way that covers its function, rather than a
topographical description. For example, they clearly indicate that
mindfulness practice is not the only way to contact the present
moment. Second, there's a constant theme throughout the book in
which either theory, research findings, and methods are described
and then related to clinical practice. In particular they emphasize
what happens during the therapy session--a topic of particular
interest and importance from my perspective. Third, they cover a
topic close to my heart in which they ask the clinician to use the
same methods applied to clients to heal themselves. Fourth, their
approach is coherence with contextual behavioral science. Finally,
the authors keep their eye on the ball of providing an approach
that clinicians can use by detailing how-to application to common
clinical problems. I highly recommend this book."
--Robert J. Kohlenberg, PhD, ABPP, professor of psychology at the
University of Washington, cofounder of functional analytic
psychotherapy (FAP)
"They've done it again. The cocreators of FACT (focused acceptance
and commitment therapy) have written another innovative, creative,
and incredibly practical guide to brief therapy with ACT, this time
expertly explaining their interventions in terms of the underlying
neuroscience. It's novel, powerful, and cutting-edge; a breath of
fresh air in the ever-growing pantheon of ACT literature. Highly
recommended!"
--Russ Harris, author of The Happiness Trap and ACT Made Simple
"This is a beautifully written book that masterfully combines
science, theory, and practice. An invaluable tool for clinicians
who want to engender more mindfulness and self-compassion in their
clients, it maximizes the power of acceptance and commitment
therapy to change lives."
--Kristin Neff, PhD, associate professor in human development and
culture at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of
Self-Compassion
"This lovely book transforms a rigorous psychometric approach to
the components of mindfulness into a compassionate and
user-friendly guide for teaching clients to live in the present
moment, in ways that will change how they see the world and live
their lives."
--Ruth Baer, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of
Kentucky and author of The Practicing Happiness Workbook
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