Trauma-focused Act: A Practitioner’s Guide to Working With Mind, Body, and Emotion Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

“Trauma-Focused ACT is going to go down as one of the great contributions to the field of trauma-informed care.”
—Kirk Strosahl PhD, cofounder of ACT

Trauma-Focused ACT (TFACT) provides a flexible, comprehensive model for treating the entire spectrum of trauma-related issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addiction, depression, anxiety disorders, moral injury, chronic pain, shame, suicidality, insomnia, complicated grief, attachment issues, sexual problems, and more. Written by internationally acclaimed ACT trainer, Russ Harris, this textbook is for practitioners at all levels of experience, and offers exclusive access to free downloadable resources—including scripts, videos, MP3s, handouts, and worksheets.

Discover cutting-edge strategies for healing the past, living in the present, and building a new future. With this compassion-based, exposure-centered approach, you’ll learn how to help your clients:

• Find safety and security in their bodies
• Overcome hyperarousal and hypoarousal
• Break free from dissociation
• Shift from self-hatred to self-compassion
• Rapidly ground themselves and reengage in life
• Unhook from difficult cognitions and emotions
• Develop an integrated sense of self
• Resolve traumatic memories through flexible exposure
• Connect with and live by their values
• Experience post-traumatic growth

Russ Harris is an internationally acclaimed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer, and author of the best-selling ACT-based self-help book, The Happiness Trap, which has sold more than one million copies and been published in thirty languages. He is widely renowned for his ability to teach ACT in a way that is simple, clear, and fun—yet extremely practical.