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| The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Move Through Depression & Create a Life Worth Living (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) | 
| Authors: Kirk D. Strosahl, Patricia J. Robinson
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 35051
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 305
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1572245484
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85270651
EAN: 9781572245488
ASIN: 1572245484
Publication Date: June 2008
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Product Description
There are hundreds of books that will try to help you "overcome" or "put an end to" depression. But what if you could use your depression to change your life for the better? Your symptoms may be signals that something in your life needs to change. Learning to understand and interpret these signals is much more important than ignoring or avoiding them--approaches that only make the situation worse. This workbook uses techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to offer a new treatment plan for depression that will help you live a productive life by accepting your feelings instead of fruitlessly trying to avoid them. The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression will show you, step-by-step, how to stop this cycle, feel more energized, and involve yourself in pleasurable and fulfilling activities that will help you work through, rather than avoid, aspects of your life that are depressing you. Use the techniques in this book to evaluate your own depression and create a personalized treatment plan. You'll enrich your total life experience by focusing your energy not on fighting depression, but on living the life you want. "Grounded in ancient wisdom and the newest scientific evidence, this book...shows the pathways into and out of depression."
--Mark Williams, professor of clinical psychology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
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the mindfullness and acceptance workbook July 20, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
wonder full and exactly what i was looking for and with the cd to guide most helpfull
Same ACT channel, same ACT material, but many new techniques & tips May 26, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Strosahl and Robinson follow in the path of "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" but focus specifically on depression. A little New Age-y here & there, which initially might or might not be a turn-off, depending on how you feel about such things - but stick with it, because there's lots of powerful material here:
- Strong and useful explanation of why we get depressed in the first place. Blaming biology or history doesn't help us; a more useful stance, as the authors explain, is to look not just at the pain in our lives, but at how we react to that pain. Avoidance pushes us into depression, acceptance and action pull us back into life.
- A full chapter on how our mind tricks us with reasons & stories that seem to "make sense," but actually keep us stuck.
- Nice accompanying CD with guided meditation exercises of various sorts, some for learning mindfulness skills, others for getting in touch with our intuition about what we really want to do in life.
- Good closing chapters on building ACT habits that will last rather than fizzle.
See full review on my blog - www.raburgess.com/wholesight - or just check it out for yourself. You'll be challenged, but you won't be sorry.
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