Trauma-Focused ACT: A Practitioner's Guide to Working with Mind, Body, and Emotion Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Also known as Trauma-Focused ACT, TFACT, Trauma Focused ACT
Russ Harris's textbook on using ACT across the whole range of trauma-related problems
At a glance
What it argues
One model for many problems, Compassion plus exposure, Filling a gap
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Safety in the body, Grounding, Unhooking …
See all 5Read next
ACT Made Simple, Trauma and Recovery, The Body Keeps the Score
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Russ Harris, Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and 5 others
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- Trauma-Focused ACT (TFACT) is a flexible model for the whole spectrum of trauma-related problems, not just PTSD.
- Its approach is compassion-based and exposure-centered.
- Clients first learn to ground themselves and feel safe in their bodies.
- Then they unhook from difficult thoughts and feelings, resolve traumatic memories through flexible exposure, and rebuild life around their values.
Why it matters
- For therapists of any experience level who work with trauma and want a structured ACT approach, with downloadable scripts and worksheets.
Key facts
- Author
- Russ Harris1
- Published
- December 20211
- Publisher
- New Harbinger Publications1
- Pages
- 4001
- ISBN
- 97816840382131
- Audience
- Practitioners at all levels of experience1
- Covers
- PTSD, addiction, depression, anxiety, moral injury, chronic pain, shame, suicidality, insomnia, complicated grief, attachment issues1
- Extras
- Free downloadable scripts, videos, MP3s, handouts and worksheets1
What it argues
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One model for many problems1
A single flexible ACT model can treat the whole range of trauma-related issues, from PTSD to moral injury and complicated grief.
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Compassion plus exposure1
Healing the past, living in the present and building a new future through a compassion-based, exposure-centered approach.
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Filling a gap1
Steven Hayes writes that trauma-focused versions of ACT that build flexibility skills had been hard to create, and this book helps fill that gap.
Key ideas
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Safety in the body1
Help clients find safety and security in their bodies and overcome hyperarousal and hypoarousal.
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Grounding1
Rapidly ground themselves, reengage in life and break free from dissociation.
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Unhooking1
Unhook from difficult cognitions and emotions.
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Flexible exposure1
Resolve traumatic memories through flexible exposure.
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Self-compassion and growth1
Shift from self-hatred to self-compassion, develop an integrated sense of self, and experience post-traumatic growth.
Read next
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The basics of ACT this book builds on, if you are new to it.
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Judith Herman's classic on the stages of trauma recovery.
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Bessel van der Kolk on trauma in the body, a widely read companion.
Connections
Written by
Related
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)TopicACT adapted for trauma
- Psychological traumaTopicCovers the full spectrum of trauma-related problems
- Post-traumatic stress disorderTopicOne of the main conditions it treats
- Trauma-informed careTopicKirk Strosahl calls it a major contribution to trauma-informed care
- Self-compassionTopicClients shift from self-hatred to self-compassion
- Psychological flexibilityTopicBuilds flexibility skills for trauma
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