Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Michael Levin

ISBN 10: 0443343381 / ISBN 13: 9780443343384

Published by Elsevier Health Sciences, GB, 2025

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In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Michael Levin and Sam Spencer bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Over the last 25 years, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy, has become widely used and is accepted as an effective technique for treating a variety of physical and mental conditions. In this issue, top experts discuss ACT for anxiety disorders, psychosis, substance use disorders, PTSD, hoarding disorder, psychiatric conditions in youth, and more.Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including ACT for obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, eating disorders, and more; as well as research design and measurement: related considerations in ACT; and ACT and future of process-based therapyProvides in-depth clinical reviews on acceptance and commitment therapy, offering actionable insights for clinical practicePresents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychiatric Disorders, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences, GB
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443343381
• ISBN 13: 9780443343384
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 450 grams

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Synopsis

In this issue of Psychiatric Clinics, guest editors Drs. Michael Levin and Sam Spencer bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Over the last 25 years, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy, has become widely used and is accepted as an effective technique for treating a variety of physical and mental conditions. In this issue, top experts discuss ACT for anxiety disorders, psychosis, substance use disorders, PTSD, hoarding disorder, psychiatric conditions in youth, and more.

• Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including ACT for obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, eating disorders, and more; as well as research design and measurement: related considerations in ACT; and ACT and future of process-based therapy
• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on acceptance and commitment therapy, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews

About the Author

Michael Levin has over 30 years of experience in the field of pharmaceutical scale-up, instrumentation and process optimization. He has edited a “Pharmaceutical Process Scale-Up” book, and has contributed chapters on “Tablet Press Instrumentation” and “Wet Granulation: End-Point Determination and Scale-Up” in the Encyclopedia of Pharmaceutical Technology. Michael holds a M.Sc. degree in History and Philosophy of Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ph.D. in BioMathematics (1980) from University of Washington in Seattle. His Post Doctorate studies were at University of Houston, Department of Mechanical Engineering. He participated in numerous wet and dry granulation and tableting projects in major pharmaceutical companies as a provider of process analytical instrumentation, conducted many seminars, performed numerous consulting services and wrote expert reports to clients in the pharmaceutical industry.