Books

A Liberated Mind: How To Pivot Toward What Matters

by Steven C. Hayes

The proven plan to overcome negative thoughts and feelings, turn pain into purpose, and build a meaningful life.

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

by Steven C. Hayes with Spencer Smith

A general purpose ACT workbook. RCTs show that it works as an aid to ACT or on its own, but it will also keep new ACT therapists well oriented.

Learning Process-Based Therapy: A Skills Training Manual for Targeting the Core Processes of Psychological Change in Clinical Practice

by Stefan G. Hofmann, Steven C. Hayes and David N. Lorscheid

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Second Edition: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change

by Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, and Kelly G. Wilson

This book provides the definitive statement of ACT—from conceptual and empirical foundations to clinical techniques.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Behavior Analysts: A Practice Guide from Theory to Treatment

by Mark R. Dixon, Steven C. Hayes, Jordan Belisle

Beyond the DSM – Toward a Process-Based Alternative for Diagnosis and Mental Health Treatment

by Steven C. Hayes and Stefan G. Hofmann

Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups

by Paul W.B. Atkins, David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes

Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention

by Matthieu Villatte, Jennifer L. Villatte, and Steven C. Hayes

Features innovative ways to enhance assessment and intervention using specific kinds of clinical conversations.

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior

by David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes

Process-Based CBT: The Science and Core Clinical Competencies of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

by Steven C. Hayes, and Stefan G. Hofmann PhD

Learning Act: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills-Training Manual for Therapists

by Jason B. Luoma, Steven C. Hayes, and Robyn D. Walser

A step by step learning companion for the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy book. Very practical and helpful. Great book.

ACT for Clergy and Pastoral Counselors: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Bridge Psychological and Spiritual Care

by Jason A. Nieuwsma, Robyn D. Walser, Steven C. Hayes

Outlines how the core ACT processes can be applied to religious and spiritual care approaches.

The Wiley Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science

by Anthony Biglan, Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Robert D. Zettle, and Steven C. Hayes

The Act in Context: The Canonical Papers of Steven C. Hayes

by Steven C. Hayes

Mindfulness and Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors: Applying Contextual CBT to Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions

by Steven C. Hayes and Michael Levin

How acceptance and mindfulness-based interventions are being successfully used to treat a variety of addictive behaviors, ranging from substance abuse to gambling addiction.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

by Steven C. Hayes, and Jason Lillis

The proven plan to overcome negative thoughts and feelings, turn pain into purpose, and build a meaningful life.

ACT Verbatim for Depression & Anxiety: Annotated Transcripts for Learning Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

by Michael Twohig and Steven C. Hayes

Good example of ACT in actual practice.

Acceptance & Mindfulness Treatments for Children & Adolescents: A Practitioner’s Guide

by Laurie A. Greco and Steven C. Hayes

Shows how the changes in the behavioral and cognitive therapies, which ACT is a part of, can be relevant for children and adolescents.

The Diabetes Lifestyle Book: Facing Your Fears & Making Changes for a Long & Healthy Life

by Jennifer A. Gregg, Glenn M. Callaghan, Steven C. Hayes, and Michael Singer

This is a book about applying ACT to diabetes management

Scientific Standards of Psychological Practice: Issues and Recommendations

by Steven C. Hayes, Victoria M. Follette, Robyn M. Dawes, and Kathleen E. Grady

Acceptance and Mindfulness at Work: Applying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory to Organizational Behavior Management

by Steven C. Hayes, Frank W. Bond, Dermot Barnes-Holmes, John Austin

Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For Chronic Pain

by Joanne Dahl, Kelly G. Wilson, Carmen Luciano, and Steven C. Hayes

Describes an ACT approach to chronic pain. Very accessible and readable. One of the better clinical expositions on how to do ACT values work.

Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition

by Steven C. Hayes, Victoria M. Follette, and Marsha M. Linehan

Shows how ACT is part of a change in the behavioral and cognitive therapies more generally.

Rule-Governed Behavior: Cognition, Contingencies, and Instructional Control

by Steven C. Hayes

A Practical Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

by Steven C. Hayes and Kirk D. Strosahl

Shows how to do ACT with a variety of populations.

Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition

by Steven C. Hayes, Dermot Barnes-Holmes, and Bryan Roche

Not for the faint of heart, but if you want a treatment that is grounded on a solid foundation of basic work, you’ve got it. This book is the foundation.

A History of the Behavioral Therapies: Founders’ Personal Histories

by William T. O’Donohue, Deborah A. Henderson, Steven C. Hayes, and Jane E. Fisher

The Scientist Practitioner: Research and Accountability in the Age of Managed Care

by Steven C. Hayes, David H. Barlow, and Rosemary O. Nelson-Gray

Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: A Critical Appraisal

by Steven C. Hayes and Elaine M. Heiby

Behavior Analysis of Language & Cognition: The Fourth International Institute on Verbal Relations

by Steven C. Hayes, Linda J. Hayes, Masaya Sato, and Koichi Ono

Acceptance and Change: Content and Context in Psychotherapy

by Steven C. Hayes, Neil S. Jacobson, Victoria M. Follette, and Michael J. Dougher

Some of the fellow travelers. This was the book length summary of the 3rd wave that was coming. Still relevant

Varieties of Scientific Contextualism

by Steven C. Hayes, Linda J. Hayes, Hayne W. Reese, and Theodore R. Sarbin

If you become interested in the philosophical foundation of ACT, this will help.

Understanding Verbal Relations (International Institute on Verbal Relations Series)

by Steven C. Hayes and Linda J. Hayes

Conceptual Foundations of Behavioral Assessment

by Rosemary O. Nelson and Steven C. Hayes

Environmental Problems/Behavioral Solutions (Environment and Behavior)

by John D. Cone and Steven C. Hayes