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Moving Forward, January 4, 2008
This review is from: Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) (Paperback)
"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.
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Onward!, July 4, 2007
This review is from: Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) (Paperback)
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.
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A Book From the Head and Heart, June 13, 2007
This review is from: Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) (Paperback)
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
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