Context Press imprint: 49 books
Derived Relational Responding Applications for Learners with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
A Progressive Guide to Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Copublished with Context Press
Derived Relational Responding offers a series of revolutionary intervention programs for applied work in human language and cognition targeted at students with autism and other developmental disabilities. It presents a program drawn from derived stimulus relations...
Context and Cognition
Interpreting Complex Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
While the general wisdom has it that behaviorism is dead, it not only survives but is intellectually active in areas such as psychological theory, the analysis of language and cognition, and behavioral economics. It is a successful, albeit limited, source of behavioral science. Its chief difficulty...
Advances in Relational Frame Theory
Research and Application
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
As acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) increases in popularity among clinicians, it becomes more and more vital to understand its theoretical basis, relational frame theory (RFT). RFT is a psychological theory of human language and cognition, developed by Steven C. Hayes. It focuses on how humans...
Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science
An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
What do evolutionary science and contextual behavioral science have in common? Edited by David Sloan Wilson and Steven C. Hayes, this groundbreaking book offers a glimpse into the histories of these two schools of thought, and provides a sound rationale for their reintegration.
Evolutionary...
The ABCs of Human Behavior
Behavioral Principles for the Practicing Clinician
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
When cognitive behavior therapy emerged in the 1950s, driven by the work of Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck, basic behavior principles were largely sidelined in clinical psychology curricula. Issues in cognition became the focus of case conceptualization and intervention planning for most therapists....
A Contextual Behavioral Guide to the Self
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The self plays an integral role in human motivation, cognition, and social identity. A Contextual Behavioral Guide to the Self translates this difficult—yet essential—therapeutic process into easy-to-apply steps and user-friendly language.
For many clients, it's incredibly difficult to...
Committed Action in Practice
A Clinician's Guide to Assessing, Planning, and Supporting Change in Your Client
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Designed for use by mental health professionals and graduate students, Committed Action in Practice clearly conceptualizes committed action—an integral aspect of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)—and offers a deeper investigation of the first of the six core processes of ACT. The book also...
A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care
Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TNGC) clients have complex mental health concerns, and are more likely than ever to seek out treatment. This comprehensive resource outlines the latest research and recommendations to provide you with the requisite knowledge, skills, and awareness to treat TNGC...
by John Hummel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
The American government makes a great case for being interested in education and claims to take great pains to 'leave no child behind.' Current education-system enhancement strategies emphasize testing and accountability and focus on rewarding or penalizing teachers whose students make statistical...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples
A Clinician's Guide to Using Mindfulness, Values, and Schema Awareness to Rebuild Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Relationships take work. In this much-anticipated book, best-selling author Matthew McKay and psychologist Avigail Lev present the ten most common relationship schemas, and provide an evidence-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) treatment protocol for professionals to help clients overcome...
Mindfulness and Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors
Applying Contextual CBT to Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
As a clinician or researcher in the field of mental health or addictions, this book will offer you powerful insight into how acceptance and mindfulness-based interventions are being successfully used to treat a variety of addictive behaviors, ranging from substance abuse to gambling addiction.
Edited...
Learning RFT
An Introduction to Relational Frame Theory and Its Clinical Application
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Relational frame theory, or RFT, is the little-understood behavioral theory behind a recent development in modern psychology: the shift from the cognitive paradigm underpinning cognitive behavioral therapy to a new understanding of language and cognition. Learning RFT presents a basic yet comprehensive...
ACT for Clergy and Pastoral Counselors
Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Bridge Psychological and Spiritual Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For the first time ever, three pioneers in the field of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) present an edited volume that outlines how the core ACT processes can be applied to religious and spiritual care approaches.
If you are a clergy leader or pastoral counselor, people struggling with...
A History of the Behavioral Therapies
Founders' Personal Histories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
In this unique work, eighteen of the most influential and significant figures in the various subareas of behavior therapy (from behavior analysis through cognitive therapy) are brought together to discuss their work and the sources and influences that affected it. At times moving, profound, and humorous,...