a guide that really guide

Imposing a book of nearly 500 pages, a real guide the therapist, it brings together all the clinical tools and skills that can hope to contact an ACT practitioner.
Marie-France Bolduc, Jana Grand Schoendorff and Benjamin, put their best therapists experiences in the transmission of the service of this beautiful model of contextual therapy what the ACT therapy.
This clinical guide is constructed with a rigorous methodology that reflects the scientific model on which it is based. The foundations of learning are remembered and resituated in the context of the therapeutic relationship.
The TCR (relational frames theory) with the underlying philosophical model, functional contextualism, and the basics of therapy based on the Functional Analysis (FAP), are addressed early in the book, which allows the Reader lie immediately in the model contextual behavioral sciences.

A development of the TCR and the foundations of therapy based on the Functional Analysis (FAP) is proposed end of the book for those who are not content with intuitive notions that can be enough to grasp and practice the ACT therapy.

The book is structured around the 6 conventional processes of ACT (Contact this moment prospect of taking on oneself, demerger, acceptance, commitment to action, contact values). The matrix, innovative instrument, simple and intuitive, can show the ACT clinicians and patients, is the common thread, each chapter presents how it can be used at each of the phases of treatment and within different processes Formal ACT.
It is a book that invites to experience, it presents the therapeutic relationship as a training space. Many dialogues from clinical practice allow authors to better understand what may look like the ACT in practice.
Interpersonal and intrapersonal processes are discussed in the heart of the therapeutic relationship that is shown functionally as the context which will enable behavior change in the service of psychological flexibility.

Conceptualization and functional analysis are driven from the patient's side or that of the therapist, although emphasizing the equal position in the therapeutic work.
This guide invites both rely on the formal processes of the ACT and also grow their own informal therapeutic skills by practicing a pop-functional interaction constantly in trade with the patient. The template for developing this skill is a really useful tool.
The notions of compassion for oneself, vulnerability so useful in therapy are conceptualized functionally with the game matrix.
Finally, traps and secrets of therapists and quiz available at the end of each chapter dealing with a clinical process are crispy praticités.
All formal metaphors of ACT therapy punctuate the book, and some around the particular matrix are creations of the authors.
The website of this guide provides an interface between users and exchange including simple training exercises in mindfulness used directly by patients.
It is a work of great precision both practical and scientific and provided us to experience vitality, as if our professional practice widened over his reading.
A guide that really guide the practice that the therapist is already formed or not ACT.