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Chronic worry, a strong and persistent inability to tolerate uncertainty, is among the most common emotional problems. Unchecked, it can lead to generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), a common and more serious condition. Enter the newest, most exciting development in psychotherapy in the last fifty years. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a revolutionary new approach to resolving a staggeringly wide range of psychological problems - including chronic worry and GAD. ACT paradoxically stresses letting go of attempts to corral, change, and cease negative thinking. Instead, it helps individuals accept their feeling as they occur without judgment. ACT techniques work to "de-fuse" problematic thoughts from the situations that trigger them. By choosing what they value and committing to how they want to live, people working with ACT can bypass problems like worry entirely. ACT is safe, fast, and, clinical studies prove, very effective. This book is the first for general readers to adapt ACT principles for chronic worry and GAD. It offers a step-by-step approach to learning and practicing ACT, from the first steps of acceptance to a lifetime of rich, values-guided living.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
I'm recommending this to all my clients.
10 April 2007
Format:Paperback
A great, simple, clear, evidence-based look at using mindfulness, acceptance and more to free oneself from problems with worry and anxiety.
I think it's a must read for therapists using mindfulness based approaches to help their clients, and meditation teachers trying to help their students with anxiety problems. And, if you are chronically caught with worry and anxiety in your own life, this would be, as far as I'm concerned an important cutting-edge approach that will help you if you truly apply what you are reading. I lead a mindfulness based wellness program at a major health care provider in northern California - Kaiser-Permanente - and I am recommending this book to every anxious and worried person I work with.
I think it's a must read for therapists using mindfulness based approaches to help their clients, and meditation teachers trying to help their students with anxiety problems. And, if you are chronically caught with worry and anxiety in your own life, this would be, as far as I'm concerned an important cutting-edge approach that will help you if you truly apply what you are reading. I lead a mindfulness based wellness program at a major health care provider in northern California - Kaiser-Permanente - and I am recommending this book to every anxious and worried person I work with.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Excellent, easy-t0-read, and concise!
19 Jan 2008
Format:Paperback
I just want to draw attention to a fantastic ACT book I've just finished reading, called 'The Worry Trap', by Chad Lejeune. It's a self-help book on the use of ACT for those with GAD, or for anybody who worries a lot. it's the size of a thin paperback, only 189 pages, and it's choc-a-bloc full of great stuff, written in a really easy-to-read style. He's come up with some great new metaphors (the wrinkle in the sock, art versus ant, the shark infested surfer) and some wonderfully creative defusion strategies, (including 'rhyming your worries', labelling stuff with stick-it notes, and there's even one that involves acting out the worst case scenario with pieces of fruit!!!) The only exercise I can't bring myself to do is mindfulness of a cold shower.
He's also got a really good skills-building section at the end of the book - covering planning, time management, problem-solving, assertiveness etc.
All in all, highly reccomended.
Cheers, Russ
He's also got a really good skills-building section at the end of the book - covering planning, time management, problem-solving, assertiveness etc.
All in all, highly reccomended.
Cheers, Russ
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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9 July 2007
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This book is full of ideas and techniques that reduce anxiety and worry. You don't have to be consumed by anxiety to benefit from the practical advice it contains. Another aspect of the book that I respect is that ACT is entirely research based. It's like what W. Edwards Deming liked to call "a blizzard of common sense."
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