Books
A Liberated Mind: How To Pivot Toward What Matters
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
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.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Second Edition: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change
This book provides the definitive statement of ACT—from conceptual and empirical foundations to clinical techniques.
Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention
Features innovative ways to enhance assessment and intervention using specific kinds of clinical conversations.
Learning Act: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Skills-Training Manual for Therapists
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
Outlines how the core ACT processes can be applied to religious and spiritual care approaches.
Mindfulness and Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors: Applying Contextual CBT to Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions
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
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
Good example of ACT in actual practice.
Acceptance & Mindfulness Treatments for Children & Adolescents: A Practitioner’s Guide
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
This is a book about applying ACT to diabetes management
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For Chronic Pain
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
Shows how ACT is part of a change in the behavioral and cognitive therapies more generally.
A Practical Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Shows how to do ACT with a variety of populations.
Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition
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.
Acceptance and Change: Content and Context in Psychotherapy
Some of the fellow travelers. This was the book length summary of the 3rd wave that was coming. Still relevant
Varieties of Scientific Contextualism
If you become interested in the philosophical foundation of ACT, this will help.