Resources

Self Help ACT Books

Many of the books listed are available for purchase at the ACBS Professional Bookstore or the ACBS Self-Help Bookstore

SELF HELP BOOKS

  • The ACT Deck: 55 Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Practices to Build Connection, Find Focus and Reduce Stress
  • ACTivate Your Life: Using acceptance and mindfulness to build a life that is rich, fulfilling and fun
  • Break Free: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in 3 Steps: A Workbook for Overcoming Self-Doubt and Embracing Life
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Guide to Self-Empowerment with CBT, DBT, and ACT: How to Build Brain Strength and Reshape Your Life with Behavioral Therapy
  • The Courage Habit: How to Accept Your Fears, Release the Past, and Live Your Courageous Life
  • The Diet Trap: Feed Your Psychological Needs and End the Weight Loss Struggle Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Escaping the Emotional Roller Coaster: ACT for the emotionally sensitive
  • Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Get the Life You Want: Finding Meaning and Fulfillment through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
  • The Illustrated Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
  • The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Stress Reduction: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Manage Stress, Build Resilience, and Create the Life You Want
  • Sex ACT: Unleash the Power of Your Sexual Mind with Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
  • Stress Less, Live More: How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Can Help You Live a Busy yet Balanced Life
  • Therapy Quest: An Interactive Journey Through Acceptance And Commitment Therapy
  • Your Life on Purpose: How to Find What Matters and Create the Life You Want

SELF HELP BOOKS FOR SPECIFIC POPULATIONS

ANGER

  • Act on Life Not on Anger: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Guide to Problem Anger

ANXIETY

  • The ACT on Anxiety Workbook
  • Anxiety Happens: 52 Ways to Find Peace of Mind
  • Be Mighty: A Woman’s Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: How to Use CBT to Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Intrusive Thoughts + A Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and ACT Techniques
  • The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
  • In This Moment: Five Steps to Transcending Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience
  • The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2nd Edition)
  • The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Social Anxiety and Shyness: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Free Yourself from Fear and Reclaim Your Life
  • Social Courage: Coping and thriving with the reality of social anxiety
  • Ten Little Ways to Beat the Worry Trick: Outsmart Anxiety, Fear, and Panic
  • Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
  • Trichotillomania: An ACT-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Workbook (Treatments That Work)
  • The Worry Trap: How to Free Yourself from Worry & Anxiety Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

CHILDREN/ADOLESCENTS/PARENTING

  • Becoming Mum
  • Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life
  • The Gifted Kids Workbook: Mindfulness Skills to Help Children Reduce Stress, Balance Emotions, and Build Confidence
  • The Joy of Parenting: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years
  • The Mental Health and Wellbeing Workout for Teens: Skills and Exercises from ACT and CBT for Healthy Thinking
  • The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Teen Anxiety: Activities to Help You Overcome Fears and Worries Using
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Instant Help Book for Teens)
  • Nuna and the Fog
  • Parenting a Troubled Teen: Manage Conflict and Deal with Intense Emotions Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance: A Powerful New Approach to Overcoming Fear, Panic, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Stuff That Sucks: Accepting What You Can’t Change and Committing to What You Can
  • Dark Agents, Book One: Violet and the Trial of Trauma

DEPRESSION

  • The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Move Through
  • Depression and Create a Life Worth Living (2nd Edition)

EATING DISORDERS/BODY IMAGE

  • The Anorexia Workbook: How to Accept Yourself, Heal Your Suffering, and Reclaim Your Life
  • Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate: How to Let Go of Your Struggle with Body Image Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

HEALTH/CHRONIC PAIN/INTEGRATED CARE

  • Better Living With IBS: A step-by-step program to managing your symptoms so you can enjoy life to the full!
  • The Diabetes Lifestyle Book
  • End the Insomnia Struggle: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Get to Sleep and Stay Asleep
  • Living Beyond Lyme: Reclaim Your Life From Lyme Disease and Chronic Illness
  • Living Beyond Your Pain: Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy to Ease Chronic Pain
  • Living with IBS

INTERPERSONAL/RELATIONSHIP ISSUES

  • ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • The Mindful Couple: How Acceptance and Mindfulness Can Lead You to the Love You Want

LOSS/GRIEF

  • The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts

SPORTS/HUMAN PERFORMANCE

  • The Psychology of Enhancing Human Performance: The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment Approach
  • The Winner’s Mind: Strengthening Mental Skills in Athletes

SUBSTANCE ABUSE/ADDICTION

  • Power Over Addiction: A Harm Reduction Workbook for Changing Your Relationship with Drugs
  • The Wisdom to Know the Difference: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Substance Abuse

TRAUMA/PTSD

  • Dark Agents, Book One: Violet and the Trial of Trauma
  • Finding Life Beyond Trauma: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems
  • The PTSD Survival Guide for Teens: Strategies to Overcome Trauma, Build Resilience, and Take Back Your Life (The Instant Help Solutions Series

OTHER SELF-HELP BOOKS

  • Kashdan, T. (2009). Curious? Discover the missing ingredient to a fulfilling life. New York, NY: Harper Collins.
  • Flowers, S. H. (2009). The Mindful Path Through Shyness: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You From Social Anxiety, Fear, and Avoidance. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
  • Vieten, C. (2009). Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child’s First Year. . Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
  • McCurry, S. M. (2006). When a family member has dementia: Steps to becoming a resilient caregiver. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.

Although not directly on ACT or mindfulness, this book for caregivers does include a significant emphasis on acceptance (the author is one of the early ACT therapists from the University of Nevada, Reno and studied with Steve Hayes).