Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents

ISBN-13: 9780128146699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 426 str.

Koa Whittingham; Lisa W. Coyne

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Section One: Theoretical and Scientific Background2. Parenting3. Connect: the parent-child relationship4. Shape: building a flexible repertoire

Section Two: The Bedrock of Clinical practice5. Case Conceptualization6. Therapeutic Relationship

Section Three: ACT Processes7. Values and Proto-values8. Experiential acceptance of parent, child and relationship9. Psychological contact with the present moment including shared psychological contact10. Flexible languaging11. Flexible perspective taking12. Compassionate Context13. Committed Action and Exploration14. Integrating ACT with other interventions 15. Conclusion

O autorze

Koa Whittingham, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre within the Child Health Research Centre at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a registered psychologist in Australia with specialisations in both clinical and developmental psychology. She is also the author of Becoming Mum, a self-help book for the perinatal period grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy.
Her research spans three key areas: parenting, neurodevelopmental disabilities, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and related approaches. She is passionate about the application of ACT to parenting research and intervention. Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and is the Founder of the McLean Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute for Children and Adolescents (OCDI Jr.) at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Founder and Director of the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety (NECOA) and is a Fellow in the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). She is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice, and nearly 20 years of experience in the use of ACT with young people and families.
Her research focuses on parenting in early childhood and the treatment of anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive disorder in children and adolescents.