"Hayes et al. have produced a collection of applied research articles filled with golden nuggets of insights, research, and practice applications for a variety of common clinical issues. These scientist-practitioners continue to demonstrate that their variations of acceptance and change-based strategies have influenced in significant ways not only the traditional cognitive-behavioral based therapeutic traditions but have also--and most importantly--improved the quality of their client's lives."--"Journal of Marital and Family Therapy""" "Fascinating, useful, and thought-provoking."--"Metapsychology"
"An excellent introduction."--"APA PsycCRITIQUES"
"Many therapists and clinicians have encountered discussions about the concepts of mindfulness, acceptance and commitment within individual and group psychotherapy. Highly recommended, this book will acquaint you with contemporary thinking about the topic, research findings and future directions."--"New England Psychologist"
.,."a rich resource for surveying the theoretical and clinical implications of third-wave behavior therapies....A strength of this volume lies in the compilation of related theoretical models that appear to challenge our thinking about contemporary clinical science and practice."--"the Behavior Therapist"

"In this exciting new book, Hayes et al. have brought together the leading proponents of mindfulness and acceptance-based CBT approaches, to provide a comprehensive overview of this growing and increasingly influential area....a state-of-the-art review of mindfulness-and acceptance-based approaches to psychological disorders. It is a useful primer for clinicians wishing to familiarize themselves with theseapproaches. For those familiar with DBT, MBCT and ACT, the chapters describing how the principles of mindfulness and acceptance can be applied across a range of different disorders will be of interest."--"European Eating Disorders Review"

"This volume would make an excellent text for a graduate level seminar on CBT and a valued addition to the bookshelf of many practitioners regardless of their theoretical persuasion."--"Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic""The book is a well-organized, visionary, and pragmatic presentation of multiple new concepts....This book is one not only to read but also to keep on the shelf for reopening by psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and other mental health clinicians who treat, teach, and just enjoy a good adventure of expanding the mind."--"Psychiatric Services""" "This is an outstanding and potentially pivotal book, a unique series of therapeutic techniques emphasizing mindfulness, acceptance, values, spirituality, meditations, emotional deepening, focus on the present with an emphasis on the emerging therapeutic relationship....Hayes, Follette, and Linehan have recruited an impressive list of cutting-edge researchers and practitioners to provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art in what is being termed third generation behavior therapy....Any graduate doctorate program in psychology with a behavioral orientation wishing to insure contact with up-to-date thinking would need this book as part of its coursework. This book will be valuable to both starting therapists and those who have been in practice for many years....This book is highly valuable....The concepts and procedures developed are easily adapted to a child andadolescent population....Given the excitement within its pages and the profound impact it may have, it may represent one of the best values in books available today."--"Child & Family Behavior Therapy""" "This book may appeal especially to mental health professionals who are interested in alternative methods for helping patients with problems that may not be solved with more well-known methods, such as systematic desensitisation for anxiety disorder or medication for clinical depression."--"British Journal of Guidance and Counselling" "The use of acceptance and mindfulness is presented...by an impressive array of authors and researchers in numerous domains including the treatment of refractory depression, trauma, generalized anxiety disorder, eating disorders, alcohol and drug use disorders, and couples therapy."--"Journal of Trauma Practice"

Hayes, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and the New Behavior Therapies. Robins, Linehan, and Schmidt, Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Synthesizing Radical Acceptance with Skillful Means. Segal, Teasdale, and Williams, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Theoretical Rationale and Empirical Status. Orsillo, Roemer, Lerner, and Tull, Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Comparisons, Contrasts, and Application to Anxiety. Kohlenberg, Kanter, Bolling, Wexner, Parker, and Tsai, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Acceptance. K. G. Wilson and Murrell, Values Work in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Setting a Course for Behavioral Treatment. Martell, Addis, and Dimidjian, Finding the Action in Behavioral Activation: The Search for Empirically Supported Interventions and Mechanisms of Change. Fruzzetti and Iverson, Mindfulness, Acceptance, Validation, and "Individual" Psychopathology in Couples, Follette, Palm, and Hall, Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Trauma. Borkovec and Sharpless, Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Bringing Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy into the Valued Present. G. T. Wilson, Acceptance and Change in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: The Evolution of Manual-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Marlatt, Witkiewitz, Dillworth, Bowen, Parks, Macpherson, Lonczak, Larimer, Simpson, Blume, and Crutcher, Vipassana Meditation as a Treatment for Alcohol and Drug Use Disorders. Christensen, Sevier, Simpson, and Gattis, Acceptance, Mindfulness, and Change in Couple Therapy.