Optimizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

This book focuses on practical insights gained from research on ACT in targeted populations and settings. Leading experts share how ACT has been tailored and refined to best address problems including depression, anxiety, psychosis, health-related conditions, burnout, adolescent mental health, and insomnia. This book focuses on lessons learned from years of researching and refining ACT in specific areas, including those that have not been covered in similar books with topics such as autistic adults, caregivers, and audiological conditions. This book also provides important developments in assessment, case conceptualization, and treatment at different levels of care. Highly relevant to practitioners and researchers alike, this volume offers an up-to-date picture of ACT and its expanding potential.

Optimizing ACT is an important contribution to the ongoing evolution of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Levin and Twohig have brought together some of leading ACT experts to show how ACT continues to grow not by abandoning its core, but by deepening and refining it through research and practical extension. This volume offers clinicians a clear, evidence-informed picture of where ACT is heading: toward ever more precise, flexible, and person-centered system of intervention. (Professor Steven C. Hayes, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno; Originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Author of A Liberated Mind and Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life)

"This edited volume by Drs. Levin and Twohig spans impressive ground that is vital to understanding and applying ACT in clinical practice. Early chapters provide an outstanding overview of ACT, how to assess key processes, and tailor to individual clients, whereas the latter chapters showcase applications to diverse clinical problems. Even after using ACT for more than 20 years, every chapter taught me something new!" (Dr. Joanna Arch, University of Colorado Boulder; Author of Clinical Guide to Exposure Therapy Beyond Phobias)