Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

Acceptance and commitment therapy has proven to be an effective behavioural therapy approach for treating compulsion disorders. This first disorder-specific ACT manual follows the central therapy phases in three modules: ‘therapy preparation’ deals with anamnesis and case concept, the ‘practice phase’ focuses on value-oriented exposure training and the main point of the ‘final phase’ is maintaining exposure and preventing relapse.

• the first therapy manual on how to treat obsessive compulsive disorders with ACT
• flexible manual with 3 modules
• aim: strengthening patient independence