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Acceptance and Mindfulness Treatments for Children and Adolescents: A Practitioner's Guide

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I enjoy this book's thoughtful approach to mindfulness type theoretical approaches with children and adolescents. It seems to take a meta-analysis approach which really offers great comparisons of treatment modalities. What is the downfall of the book for me is that it offers a lot of information that requires buying more information. The group curriculums are only superficial and their lack of completeness leaves this reader frustrated that to do one of the curriculums I have to purchase more materials or spend more hours searching through more books to create it myself. If I had that kind of time I may not have purchased the book in the first place. Since it was labeled a Practitioner's Guide I thought it would be more detailed and less overview. Still, I am glad for the new information and will use this book as a reference book more then a treatment protocol.

Excellent resource! Presents a variety of evidence based treatment strategies in a clear, concise manner. I'm an outpatient psychotherapist and consistently refer to different chapters in the book. An invaluable addition to my professional library.

This book has some very good explanations of the application of ACT for adolescents - I used it immediately in my work. It covers theory adequately to inform the practice, and has very practical suggestions that help to formulate the case and apply the knowledge clinically.

As I read this book I had to constantly keep checking to make sure I wasn't reading the intro over. After downloading a sample of the book for my kindle I found the intro interesting. So I purchased this book, while I was reading the book on my kindle I had to constantly check to see if I had changed sections. This book seems to be a collection of writings that have been pulled together to create a "practitioner's guide". Almost every chapter reintroduces what ACT is then briefly talks about how it has been implemented.

I went into this book very excited about what knowledge it could hold only to be disappointed. Ultimately I returned the book.