Description: What if depression could lead to positive change? Written by acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) cofounder Kirk Strosahl and Patricia Robinson, this fully revised and updated edition of best-selling classic, The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression includes updated exercises based in breakthrough research on self-compassion, mindfulness, and neuroscience to help readers work through their depression--rather than avoid it--and go on to create a more meaningful life.
Brief description: Kirk D. Strosahl, PhD, is cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a cognitive behavioral approach that has gained widespread adoption in the mental health and substance-abuse communities. He is coauthor of Brief Interventions for Radical Change and In This Moment. Strosahl provides training and consultation services for Mountainview Consulting Group, Inc. He is a pioneer in the movement to bring behavioral health services into primary care. He resides in Portland, OR.
Review Quotes: "This well-written and user-friendly workbook presents new ways of understanding and overcoming depression. Based on mindfulness, acceptance, self-compassion, positive psychology, and neuroscience, it combines solid research foundations with practical methods for climbing out of helplessness and self-blame, and building a satisfying life."
--Ruth Baer, PhD, author of The Practicing Happiness Workbook