The Mindfulness Acceptance Workbook for Depression Using Acceptance
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There are hundreds of books that will try to help you overcome or put an end to depression. But what if you could use your depression to change your life for the better? Your symptoms may be signals that something in your life needs to change. Learning to understand and interpret these signals is much more important than ignoring or avoiding them–approaches that only make the situation worse. This workbook uses techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to offer a new treatment plan for depression that will help you live a productive life by accepting your feelings instead of fruitlessly trying to avoid them.
The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression will show you, step-by-step, how to stop this cycle, feel more energized, and involve yourself in pleasurable and fulfilling activities that will help you work through, rather than avoid, aspects of your life that are depressing you. Use the techniques in this book to evaluate your own depression and create a personalized treatment plan. You’ll enrich your total life experience by focusing your energy not on fighting depression, but on living the life you want.
Grounded in ancient wisdom and the newest scientific evidence, this book…shows the pathways into and out of depression.
–Mark Williams, professor of clinical psychology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford
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A workbook that actually works!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve struggled with depression for the majority of my life and have tried many different tools to help me heal - for exmaple psychoanalysis, self-help books, homeopathy, antidepressants, acupuncture, etc. While I won’t say that those tools did not help me (I really needed therapy to move through the most acute traumas of my past), I will say that this workbook has really helped me at this point in my life, helping me to understand how the depression has influenced my current behaviors and ways of coping with my past. Having been through nearly 3 years of therapy, and there working through past issues, I was ready to start taking action in my life *now* for a better future. This workbook has helped me frame what’s most important to me, what I want to experience, and find ways to actually begin creating those changes for myself. I look forward to the personal time I spend with this workbook, and I feel I’ve benefitted greatly from it.
the mindfullness and acceptance workbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
wonder full and exactly what i was looking for and with the cd to guide most helpfull
easy to read
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Excellent common sense, easy to read, inspiring book for those experiencing depression and/or professionals prepared to try something different to get something different for their clients. Highly recommend.
satisfied with this book
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
As a worker in the mental health field, I found this book to be helpful in assisting my clients through dealing with their depression; which is a very common issue.
Good depression workbook!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This book is great to work with a group or on your own. The cd has a great selection of music with meditation exercises to follow along with. The stories shared vary in different areas of how depression can affect people in many differnt ways. I am using this book as material and reference in a womens support group. It has already made an impact within the group. The women are opening up and sharing. I am glad I chose this book. Karla H.
Same ACT channel, same ACT material, but many new techniques & tips
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Strosahl and Robinson follow in the path of “Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life” but focus specifically on depression. A little New Age-y here & there, which initially might or might not be a turn-off, depending on how you feel about such things - but stick with it, because there’s lots of powerful material here:
- Strong and useful explanation of why we get depressed in the first place. Blaming biology or history doesn’t help us; a more useful stance, as the authors explain, is to look not just at the pain in our lives, but at how we react to that pain. Avoidance pushes us into depression, acceptance and action pull us back into life.
- A full chapter on how our mind tricks us with reasons & stories that seem to “make sense,” but actually keep us stuck.
- Nice accompanying CD with guided meditation exercises of various sorts, some for learning mindfulness skills, others for getting in touch with our intuition about what we really want to do in life.
- Good closing chapters on building ACT habits that will last rather than fizzle.
See full review on my blog - http://www.raburgess.com/wholesight - or just check it out for yourself. You’ll be challenged, but you won’t be sorry.
great refference book
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This is a great reference book which is suitable to be used by individuals and clinicians alike. It outlines ACT principles in an easy to read and accurate manner providing excellent everyday examples.
For those who want a way out of the nightmare that is depression
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book provides a totally different perspective of the why’s, what’s, and how’s of depression. It also innocualates one against depression relapse. It is a workbook, so expect a lot of interactive exercises, some on the CD that is included with the book. This book makes a promise, which I think is valid, that there is a way out of depression that does not include taking drugs. This way gives a person complete control over the process of recovery from depression and the prevention of a relapse. It’s an empowering book because it works.
Pretty good workbook so far
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I haven’t read this whole book yet because I am reading one chapter a week but so far it seems to be a really good book with lots of mental exercises to get you thinking. I definitely recommend this book