Product Description

Anxiety happens. It's not a choice. And attempts to "manage" your thoughts or "get rid" of worry, fear, and panic can leave you feeling frustrated and powerless. But you can take back your life from anxiety without controlling anxious thoughts and feelings. You can stop avoiding anxiety and start showing up to your life. This book will get you started, using a revolutionary new approach called acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT.

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety has one purpose: to help you live better, more fully, more richly. Your life is calling on you to make that choice, and the skills in this workbook can help you make it happen. Find out how your mind can trap you, keeping you stuck and struggling in anxiety and fear. Learn to nurture your capacity for acceptance, mindfulness, kindness, and compassion. Use these qualities to shift your focus away from anxiety and onto what you really want your life to be about. As you do, your life will get bigger as your anxious suffering gets smaller. No matter what kind of anxiety problem you're struggling with, this workbook can guide you toward a more vibrant and purposeful life.

"...Highly recommended for all those struggling with worry, anxiety, and fear." - David H. Barlow, Ph.D., professor of psychology and psychiatry at Boston University and author of Anxiety and Its Disorders.

"...a "must-read" for anyone encountering anxiety as a barrier to a leading a fuller life." - Zindel Segal, Ph.D., Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherpy at the University of Toronto and author of The Mindful Way Through Depression.

This workbook comes with a CD that includes a full-length audio guided meditation and electronic copies of the worksheets that appear inside the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19528 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Publisher
Building on the success of their book for professionals, leaders in the field of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) John Forsyth and Georg Eifert present this exciting and innovative ACT workbook to general readers. It is the first self-help workbook to adapt the revolutionary techniques of ACT into a powerful program readers can use to overcome any of the anxiety disorders.

About the Author
John P. Forsyth, Ph.D., is associate professor of psychology, director of clinical training, and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany State University of New York. He has published numerous articles on acceptance and experiential avoidance and the role of emotion regulatory processes in human suffering. He has been doing basic and applied work related to acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for more than fifteen years. He is a clinical fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society and a licensed clinical psychologist in New York. He serves on the editorial boards of several leading clinical psychology journals, and is associate editor of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. He is coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders and ACT on Life, Not on Anger.

Georg H. Eifert, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the department of psychology at Chapman University in Orange, CA. He was ranked among the top thirty researchers in behavior analysis and therapy in the 1990s, and he has authored over 100 publications on psychological causes and treatments of anxiety and other emotional disorders. He is a clinical fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society, a member of numerous national and international psychological associations, and he serves on several editorial boards of leading clinical psychology journals. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist. He is coauthor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders and ACT on Life, Not on Anger.

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource book for anxiety sufferers
Declaring my interest as an ACT therapist in the UK, I recommend this book to anyone who experiences difficulties with anxiety. The authors have put together a comprehensive self-help manual, including information and case examples relating to the various types of anxiety problem, showing how this therapy can provide the tools needed to enable sufferers to reclaim their lives from worries, anxieties and fears (WAFs the book calls them). It is especially useful that a CD is included, with blank copies of materials and more importantly, audio versions of the mindfulness exercises which are much more user-friendly than working from the printed page. The book mixes many new metaphors and exercises with tried and tested materials from existing ACT resources, giving readers plenty of choice in finding those which resonate best with them. It is a strength that the central themes (including acceptance, mindfulness, compassion and living according to one's values) recur throughout the book, as the new, sometimes radical concepts in ACT do necessitate, for most of us, repeated presentation.

a great new work!
This is a great book! I have read a number of the ACT books, and without a doubt this is one of the best to date. Drs. Forsyth & Eifert have done a superb job of making complicated concepts simple yet effectively explained. The exercises are well designed and useful for a variety of problems. The authors write with a rare sense of clarity, expertise and humaneness.

I have used this book as an adjunct to patient care, and have also recommended it to people to use on it's own. The accompanying CD is extremely well done and something of value all by itself. As a psychologist who treats a large number of anxiety disorders, I recommend it highly.

Edward J. Hickling, Psy.D.
Co-author, "After the Crash: Psychological Assessment and Treatment of MVA Survivors", and "Overcoming the Trauma of Your Motor Vehicle Accident: A Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Program"

I Love This Book!
This book is excellent news for anyone -therapist or client - using ACT to work with anxiety disorders. It is written in an easy-to-read, down-to-earth, entertaining manner, accompanied by excellent illustrations, and a wealth of practical tools. I particularly like the way they place such strong emphasis on compassion. A CD is included with recordings of mindfulness skills, and pdf files of key worksheets. John and George do a great job of making ACT clear and accessible, in a simple but effective step-by-step program that nicely complements their textbook. It's a `must have' for any budding ACT therapist - and also for most of their clients!