The Worry Trap: How to Free Yourself from Worry & Anxiety using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Softcover

LeJeune, Chad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572244801 ISBN 13: 9781572244801

Verlag: New Harbinger Publications, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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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Chad LeJeune, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, and professor of psychology at the University of San Francisco. He is a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. He has been a practitioner of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) since its inception in the early 1990s. He is author of The Worry Trap.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: New Harbinger Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1572244801
• ISBN 13: 9781572244801
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200