Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents�constitutes a principles-based guide for clinicians to support parents across various stages of child and adolescent development. It uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as an axis to integrate evolution science, behaviour analysis, attachment theory, emotion-focused and compassion-focused therapies into a cohesive framework. From this integrated framework, the authors explore practice through presenting specific techniques, experiential exercises, and clinical case studies.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Section One: Theoretical and Scientific Background 2. Parenting 3. Connect: the parent-child relationship 4. Shape: building a flexible repertoire
Section Two: The Bedrock of Clinical practice 5. Case Conceptualization 6. Therapeutic Relationship
Section Three: ACT Processes 7. Values and Proto-values 8. Experiential acceptance of parent, child and relationship 9. Psychological contact with the present moment including shared psychological contact 10. Flexible languaging 11. Flexible perspective taking 12. Compassionate Context 13. Committed Action and Exploration 14. Integrating ACT with other interventions 15. Conclusion
Authors
Koa Whittingham Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, The University of Queensland, AustraliaHonorary Research Fellow, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia. Koa Whittingham, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre within the Child Health Research Centre at The University of Queensland, Australia. She is a registered psychologist in Australia with specialisations in both clinical and developmental psychology. She is also the author of Becoming Mum, a self-help book for the perinatal period grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy.
Her research spans three key areas: parenting, neurodevelopmental disabilities, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and related approaches. She is passionate about the application of ACT to parenting research and intervention. Lisa Coyne Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Founder of the McLean Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute for Children and Adolescents (OCDI Jr.), Harvard Medical School
Founder and Director of the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety (NECOA)
Fellow in the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). Lisa W. Coyne, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and is the Founder of the McLean Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Institute for Children and Adolescents (OCDI Jr.) at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Founder and Director of the New England Center for OCD and Anxiety (NECOA) and is a Fellow in the Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). She is a licensed clinical psychologist with a private practice, and nearly 20 years of experience in the use of ACT with young people and families.
Her research focuses on parenting in early childhood and the treatment of anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive disorder in children and adolescents.
