Posts Tagged ‘Commitment’
Heart Attack and Back: Twenty Years Later: Commitment to Wellness
Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 08:25 Written by admin Tuesday, 29 June 2010 08:25
Product Description
At the age of forty-seven, Ross J. Giordano suffered a near fatal heart attack. Fortunately, he came out of the ordeal with minor heart damage, only requiring bypass surgery.
Heart Attack and Back is Giordano’s story of health restoration through lifestyle modifications, and it is his gift to readers who are struggling with making the necessary choices to change the way they live and live well. Giordano shares his heartfelt journey from a lifestyle of excesses—smoking, overeating, and no exercise—to a lifestyle committed to total wellness.
Giordano intimately reveals his thoughts on the trauma and drama his family endured during his illness and recovery, and takes you to the pivotal moment when he has to make a commitment to change the way he not only thought about his life but also how he lived it.
Twenty years later, Giordano is a survivor. In Heart Attack and Back, he speaks of the gift of life as a trusted friend hoping to encourage others to make a similar commitment to wellness.
Heart Attack and Back: Twenty Years Later: Commitment to Wellness
Tags: Attack, Back, Commitment, health restoration, Heart, Later, lifestyle modifications, necessary choices, Ross J. Giordano, Twenty, Wellness, Years | Posted under Books | 1 Comment
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For Chronic Pain
Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:21 Written by admin Wednesday, 28 April 2010 08:21
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Product Description
Aimed at professionals working with clients who are stuck in chronic pain, this book provides both a new conceptualization of this difficult problem and practical guidelines about how to treat it from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) perspective. The book alternates between the story of a chronic pain patient named Elisabeth, and the scientific and clinical reasons to approach her struggle in a new way. The book addresses case formulation and clinical technique in a practical “hands on” way, with frequent therapeutic dialogues as examples. Rehabilitation specialists, psychologists, physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and social workers will all find the volume to be of use. The senior author, JoAnne Dahl, has worked in rehabilitation medicine for over 25 years and more recently with some of the founders of ACT: Steven Hayes, Kelly Wilson, and Carmen Luciano. The ACT model is helping to create a paradigm shift in behavioral and cognitive therapy, behavioral medicine, and the behavioral health disciplines more generally, from a focus on form and content to one on context and function.
Chapters:
-Elisabeth: Getting Stuck
-The Social and Systems Context of Pain
-All this Suffering, Pain, and Disability: What is Wrong?
-Valuing and Pain
-The Therapeutic Relationship in ACT
-Values Assessment
-Identifying Components of an ACT Model through Functional Analysis
-ACT Interventions
-ACT for Therapists and Staff
-A Brief ACT Intervention for Clients with Longstanding Stress and Pain Symptoms
-Elisabeth with an ACT Alternative
-References
Acceptance And Commitment Therapy For Chronic Pain
Tags: Acceptance, acceptance and commitment therapy, ACT, Carmen Luciano, Chronic, chronic pain patient, Commitment, Elisabeth, health disciplines, Mark, Pain, Steven Hayes, Therapy | Posted under Books | 4 Comments