Brief Interventions for Radical Change: Principles and Practice of Focused Acceptance and Commitment

As a mental health professional, you know it’s a real challenge to help clients develop the psychological skills they need to live a vital life. This is especially true when you are working with time constraints or in settings where contacts with the client will be brief. Brief Interventions for Radical Change is a powerful resource for any clinician working with clients who are struggling with mental health, substance abuse, or life adjustment issues. If you are searching for a more focused therapeutic approach that requires fewer follow-up visits with clients, or if you are simply looking for a way to make the most of each session, this is your guide.

In this book, you’ll find a ready-to-use collection of brief assessment and case-formulation tools, as well as many brief intervention strategies based in focused acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These tools and strategies can be used to help your clients stop using unworkable behaviors, and instead engage in committed, values-based actions to change their lives for the better.

The book includes a practical approach to understanding how clients get stuck, focusing questions to help clients redefine their problem, and tools to increase motivation for change. In addition, you will learn methods for rapidly constructing effective treatment plans and effective interventions for promoting acceptance, present-moment awareness, and contact with personal values.

With this book, you will easily integrate important mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based therapeutic work in their interactions with clients suffering from depression, anxiety, or any other mental health problem.

• Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care: A Guide to Integrating Services
• Solution Focused Brief Therapy (100 Key Points)
• Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care: Step-By-Step Guidance for Assessment and Intervention
• The Essentials of Family Therapy (7th Edition) (The Merrill Social Work and Human Services)
• ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (The New Harbinger Made Simple Series)
• Real Behavior Change in Primary Care: Improving Patient Outcomes and Increasing Job Satisfaction
• The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner's Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• The ACT Deck:55 Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Practices to Build Connection, Find Focus and Reduce Stress
• In This Moment: Five Steps to Transcending Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience
• Inside This Moment: A Clinician's Guide to Promoting Radical Change Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy