Therapy Tools: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with Children and Adolescents

Therapy Tools: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with Children and Adolescents

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is characterised in particular by its work with metaphors, experience-oriented methods and
intensive relationship building.
ACT assumes that the central core of the suffering is not the feelings themselves, but the way they are dealt with: people suffer when they try to avoid difficult thoughts and feelings. These processes can also be observed in children and adolescents. ACT aims at increasing psychological flexibility to help people lead their lives based on their own values - and thereby improve their quality of life. This TherapyTools book ‘Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with Children and Adolescents’ contains a large number of experience-oriented exercises, metaphors and worksheets, tailored to suit the various age groups of the children and adolescents as well as being suited for work with parents.

• Extensive collection of materials with over 100 work sheets and information sheets
• With lots of age-appropriate exercises
• Written by experienced practitioners

TARGET GROUP
Child and adolescent psychotherapists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, staff in family counselling centres