Crisis Integration With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Theory and Practice

Frightening and destabilizing as they may be, personal crises can also provide
meaningful opportunities for learning and growth. For individuals struggling
with mental disorders, however, mitigating the former and fostering the latter
can be challenging, particularly in the context of what are often time-limited
conversations or a limited number of visits.

In Crisis Integration With
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Theory and Practice, health care
professionals will find a practical guide, informed by both theory and evidence,
to the psychological skills patients need to deal with and grow through
crises.

Enlivened by detailed and engaging clinical dialogues-all based on
real-world clinical practice-this book introduces the acceptance and commitment
therapy (ACT) model, demonstrating how it applies to findings from crisis
studies and can be integrated into clinical practice. It then delves into the
three core processes of ACT:

Mindfulness, as understood in terms of
predictive coding as well as non-systematic interoceptive exposure, and its
effectiveness in both acute and chronic crises Self-compassion and how the
action of bringing affection and kindness to oneself during intense torment can
be crucial to acceptance Engagement with life and the importance of controlling
one's own behavior in the midst of otherwise uncontrollable crisis-provoking
events

Although crises come in a variety of forms, Crisis Integration
With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Theory and Practice argues that the core
processes that underpin the generation and maintenance of a crisis response are
essentially the same and helps to simplify the conceptualization of complex
clinical presentations.

By accessibly and deftly melding crisis science,
evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and the practice
of mindfulness, this volume offers readers-be they psychiatrists, psychiatric
residents, psychologists, psychotherapists, or other health care
professionals-an approach that is easy to learn, simple to remember, and
applicable to any crisis situation that their patients may be confronting.