Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
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By: Victoria M. Follette and Jacqueline, Ph.D. Pistorello
Format: Paperback
From: New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date: May 2007
From: New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date: May 2007
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2007-06
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 266
Ean: 9781572244979
Isbn: 1572244976
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2007-06
Media: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 266
Ean: 9781572244979
Isbn: 1572244976
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Reengage with Life After Trauma
If you've experienced trauma--whether as a result of common life events like accidents or abusive personal relationships or extraordinary experiences like war or natural disasters--you may find that the pain and emotional unease you feel don't go away over time. In fact, they may get worse. But the trauma you experienced lies in the unchangeable past. Because of your strength and perseverance, you survived, and now the rest of your life stretches before you. How do you want to live it? This book is about living life well after a traumatic event. It uses the powerful techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you take a different approach to painful feelings and chart a new course for a rich and meaningful life.
First, you'll learn to accept the pain, sadness, and anxiety that can arise in connection to your trauma. By exploring mindfulness techniques, you'll be able to remain present with painful feeings and stop avoiding the thoughts and situations that bring them up. Instead of focusing on the past, you'll clarify what you want your life to be about right now and in the future. With your values clearly in mind, commit to actions that will express them in your life--guided by the powerful tools you'll find in this book.
USER REVIEWS
""Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal
from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems" by Follette and
Pistorello provides an excellent primer on the general theoretical foundations
of ACT as well as providing specific practical guidelines for implementing
healing practices to a traumatic past. It is a concise, well written book that
will be of great value to those who have been through painful pasts and need
help in learning how to move forward. It is filled with empirically supported
data that not many self help books offer, and helps the reader learn a great
deal about the sequelae of trauma and PTSDvariables and how to deal with tragic
life experiences through acceptance and action. I love this book because it is
not an average scientific book or a predictable self help book you pull off the
shelf at the bookstore. The workbook is easy to follow and is well organized.
Each chapter offers something special and is written by two well known and respected
researchers in the field of Trauma and PTSD. This book helped me learn how many
come to terms with some major stressful and traumatic life events and learn the skills to
practice mindfulness and acceptance around these traumatic issues. In addition,
it taught me how to enhance my psychological health and nurture my well
being by learning how to let go of emotional pain-not just by getting over it
or ignoring it but by skillfully using the steps of ACT to move in the direction
of my values with the pain....the only way to eventually "overcome it." Pain is
inevitable, but suffering is not. This book helped me to see that. "
~ Written on 2008-01-04
from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems" by Follette and
Pistorello provides an excellent primer on the general theoretical foundations
of ACT as well as providing specific practical guidelines for implementing
healing practices to a traumatic past. It is a concise, well written book that
will be of great value to those who have been through painful pasts and need
help in learning how to move forward. It is filled with empirically supported
data that not many self help books offer, and helps the reader learn a great
deal about the sequelae of trauma and PTSDvariables and how to deal with tragic
life experiences through acceptance and action. I love this book because it is
not an average scientific book or a predictable self help book you pull off the
shelf at the bookstore. The workbook is easy to follow and is well organized.
Each chapter offers something special and is written by two well known and respected
researchers in the field of Trauma and PTSD. This book helped me learn how many
come to terms with some major stressful and traumatic life events and learn the skills to
practice mindfulness and acceptance around these traumatic issues. In addition,
it taught me how to enhance my psychological health and nurture my well
being by learning how to let go of emotional pain-not just by getting over it
or ignoring it but by skillfully using the steps of ACT to move in the direction
of my values with the pain....the only way to eventually "overcome it." Pain is
inevitable, but suffering is not. This book helped me to see that. "
~ Written on 2008-01-04
"Ditching the memories of unpleasant events of yesterday, last week, or last year isn't an easy task for some of us. Using this instructive and easy to follow workbook it's clear to me now that isn't the goal. Pick it up. Work through it. You'll see what I mean."
~ Written on 2007-07-04
~ Written on 2007-07-04
"Learning to carry pain forward into a vital, meaningful life is a skill. It can be learned. And this book can help you learn it. For people suffering from the after effects of horrific or abusive experiences, it provides a guide to a new way of living that is compassionate, self-validating, realistic, and empowering.
There are now therapist manuals as well designed to help clinicians learn how to use this approach with trauma: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Practitioner's Guide to Using Mindfulness & Acceptance Strategies
I wrote the foreword for this book -- I'm not an objective observer -- but this is the real deal and I recommend it.
Steve Hayes"
~ Written on 2007-06-13
There are now therapist manuals as well designed to help clinicians learn how to use this approach with trauma: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Practitioner's Guide to Using Mindfulness & Acceptance Strategies
I wrote the foreword for this book -- I'm not an objective observer -- but this is the real deal and I recommend it.
Steve Hayes"
~ Written on 2007-06-13