Synopses & Reviews
Do you find yourself lying awake at night, ruminating about the events of the day? Do you toss and turn, worrying about what you have to do in the morning or what you did earlier in the day? If so, you are not alone. In fact, insomnia is the most common sleep disorder faced by the general population today. The most common complaint in those who have trouble sleeping is having a noisy mind.” Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, it seems like you cannot silence all the internal dialogue. So what do you do when your mind is spinning and your thoughts just wont stop?
Accessible, enjoyable, and grounded in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Goodnight Mind directly addresses the effects of ruminationor having an overactive brainon your ability to sleep well. Written by two psychologists who specialize in sleep disorders, the book contains helpful exercises and insights into how you can better manage your thoughts at bedtime, and finally get some sleep.
Traditional treatment for insomnia is usually focused on medications that promote sedation rather than on the behavioral causes of insomnia. Unfortunately, medication can often lead to addiction, and a host of other side effects. This is a great book for anyone who is looking for effective therapy to treat insomnia without the use of medication.
This informative, small-format book is easy-to-read and lightweight, making it perfect for late-night reading.
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Goodnight Mind, Colleen Carney and Rachel Manber have taken the complex processes needed to establish consistently good sleep and laid out a straightforward set of easy-to-follow guidelines. Nothing is left out of this bookfrom understanding your bodys sleep clock to relaxation and quieting your mind. Carney and Manber have drawn on their years of clinical research experience to develop a rich and accessible resource for those struggling with this tenacious problem.”
Donn Posner, PhD, CBSM, clinical associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University, and coauthor of The Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia
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We live in a busy, mentally challenging world, and keeping an alert and active mind throughout the day helps us cope with and effectively meet the challenges we face. Unfortunately for the millions of folks with chronic insomnia, persistent thinking, worrying, or more general sleep-disruptive mental arousal serve as the crux of their chronic sleep problems. Fortunately, there are a variety of effective strategies for putting the mind to bed and regaining the ability to sleep normally once again. Those strategies are clearly and comprehensively presented in this new self-help guide by Carney and Manber, two renowned experts in the area of insomnia treatment. This easy-to-read guide provides ten simple steps for keeping ones mind out of the way of a good nights sleep. I am certain that this guide will be a great aid to those who read it.”
Jack Edinger, PhD, professor and director of the behavioral sleep medicine program at National Jewish Health
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"Carney (director, Sleep and Depression Laboratory, Ryerson Univ., Toronto) and Manber (director, Insomnia and Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, Stanford Univ.) have written a book for patrons with sleep issues such as insomnia. They outline ten steps for stopping ones thoughts from interfering with sleep. This book utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy techniques, a form of psychotherapy that developed from research on fatigue and sleep disorders. The ten chapters contain bulleted summaries for review. After the first chapter explains how to understand the sleep system, the majority of the book focuses on setting the stage for sleep, creating a Buffer Zone” for dealing with your day, training on how to quiet your mind, and relaxation strategies. At the end of the book is a sleep diary.
VERDICT Filled with practical, expert advice, this book will be of use to anyone suffering from insomnia or other sleep issues. An excellent fit for patrons vigilant about their health and well-being."
Library Journal, review by Rebecca Raszewski, University of Illinois, Chicago, April, 2013
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“Edmund Bourne is one of the major experts on anxiety. In this simple little book, he gives readers who suffer from anxiety attacks on all levels of intensity ten extraordinarily useful tools for anxiety relief in the most accessible form available in print.”
—Matthew Mckay PH.D., author Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook
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“ Coping with Anxiety is an extremely caluable resource guide for anyone suffering from anxiety. It is very comprehensive in its scope, describing a wide range of useful methods that will help the reader lessen anxiety and create a more calm, peaceful way of life.”
—Janet E. Esposito, MSW, author In the SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing
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In Goodnight Mind, two psychologists specializing in sleep and mood disorders offer readers an easy-to-use, friendly guide to getting to sleep when their mind is spinning and their thoughts won’t quiet down. This book offers evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques to help readers overcome insomnia and get a good night's sleep.
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In ten simple steps, the author of The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook explains this proven program that help readers relieve anxiety, fear, and worry by taking a sensible, clinically based approach to overcoming the problem.
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These immediate, user-friendly, and effective strategies are designed to help you overcome anxiety. They include step-by-step exercises that you can do in the moment without having to understand the subtleties of the most often used therapies for treating anxiety.
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In the final episode, Psychological Flexibility, youll learn how to mix the various ACT processes in actual treatment scenarios.
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Every psychotherapeutic model needs literature that shows therapists how to conceive of real-life cases in terms of the particular treatment protocols of that model; ACT in Practice will be the first such case conceptualization guide for acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), one of the most exciting new psychotherapeutic models.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is more than just a set of techniques for structuring psychotherapeutic treatment; it also offers a new, insightful, transdiagnostic approach to case conceptualization and to mental health in general. Learn to put this popular new psychotherapeutic model to work in your practice with this book, the first guide that explains how to do case conceptualization within an ACT framework.
ACT in Practice offers an introduction to ACT, an overview of its impact, and a brief introduction to the six core processes of ACT treatment--the six points of the hexaflex model and its pathological alter ego, the so-called inflexahex. It describes how to accomplish case conceptualizations in general and offers précis of the literature that establish the importance and value of case conceptualization. This guide also offers possible alternative case conceptualization for cases from different therapeutic traditions, a great help to therapists who come from a more traditional CBT background. Exercises throughout help you to evaluate the information you have just learned so that you may effectively integrate ACT into your practice.
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In episode 4, Mindfulness, Self, and the Present Moment, youll be introduced to the mindfulness components of ACT
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The second episode in the ACT in Action shows how to structure ACT work.
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How is living with your thoughts something of a rigged game? Find out in
Control and Acceptance, the second episode in the
ACT in Action series. Learn how to structure ACT work. Help your clients see the real costs of their attempts to avoid and control painful experience. Start encouraging clients to be with themselves and to start figuring out what needs to change in their lives.
Approximately 90 minutes
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Values and Action, the fifth episode in the series, describes the ACT approach to values.
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Values and Action, the fifth episode in the series, describes the ACT approach to values. This program shows you how to guide a client through a values assessment and help make the transition from process goals to a life oriented to valued directions. This episode also includes a segment where values are connected to work with clients in chronic pain.
Approximately 90 minutes
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Learn what defusion is and watch as Hayes starts out a client with defusion work.
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One of the more central processes in the ACT model,
Cognitive Defusion, is the subject of the third episode in the series. Learn what defusion is and watch as Hayes starts out a client with defusion work. Find out how to integrate defusion into treatment. In the latter part of the program, explore a variety of alternative ways to practice defusion.
Approximately 90 minutes
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Facing the Struggle introduces the organization and objectives of the ACT DVD series.
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In episode 1,
Facing the Struggle, youll be introduced to the organization and objectives of the series. Youll learn about informed consent, a critical first step when introducing clients to ACT work. The first episode covers working with a dug-in client and the move toward creative hopelessness. Youll learn about the role of psychoeducation in the therapy process and how to present a alued alternative when treating a client in chronic pain.
Approximately 90 minutes
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A complete set of 6 ACT DVD videos, with session footage that illustrates each example as practiced in an actual clinical setting. with Steven Hayes.
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The ACT in Action six-DVD series lets you observe the core processes of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) as it is practiced in actual clinical setting. These professional training programs—with session footage featuring Steven Hayes—will guide you through introducing a client to the ACT approach.
About the Author
Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is Nevada Foundation Professor and director of clinical training at the department of psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 38 books and over 540 scientific articles, his career has focused on analysis of the nature of human language and cognition, and its application to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering and promotion of human prosperity. Among other associations, Hayes has been president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. His work has received several awards, including the Impact of Science on Application Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.Kirk D. Strosahl, PhD, is cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a cognitive behavioral approach that has gained widespread adoption in the mental health and substance-abuse communities. He is coauthor of Brief Interventions for Radical Change and other core ACT books. Strosahl works as a practicing psychologist at Central Washington Family Medicine, a community health center providing health care to medically underserved patients. He also teaches family medicine physicians how to use the principles of mindfulness and acceptance in general practice. Strosahl lives in Zillah, WA.
Robyn D Walser, PhD, is associate director of the National Center for PTSD, Dissemination and Training Division and associate clinical professor at the University of California, Berkeley. As a licensed psychologist, she maintains an international training, consulting and therapy practice. Walser is developing innovative ways to translate science into practice, and is responsible for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge and treatment interventions in her current position. Walser has coauthored three books, including Learning ACT, The Mindful Couple, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.