ABSTRACT

This user-friendly workbook provides adults with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), the tools they need to move beyond their disorder using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and it also serves as compact text for clinicians/practitioners to use with clients suffering from OCD at any point in treatment.

The workbook offers readers hands-on ACT and Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) skills for taming disturbing obsessions and filling the gap of where one stands and where one wants to go. Dr. Zurita provides evidence-based exercises to guide adults through the process of ACT. This includes learning to step back from one’s thoughts and memories, opening up to all types of unwanted thoughts and feelings, paying attention to the physical world, observing one’s thoughts and feelings, getting rid of barriers to values-based living, and developing consistent patterns of values-based behavior.

Written from the office of a full-time therapist in a simple, uncomplicated, and unpretentious manner, this workbook will be useful for all clients suffering from OCD and for the therapists who work with them.

part I|54 pages

Getting to Know Your Mind

chapter 1|3 pages

Obsessions Are the Norm!

chapter 2|3 pages

If Obsessions Are Normal, What About OCD?

chapter 3|4 pages

What Keeps OCD Going?

chapter 4|10 pages

Why Are Obsessions So Hard to Let Go Of?

chapter 5|30 pages

Are There Different Types of OCD?

part II|12 pages

What Would ACT Do for You?

chapter 6|3 pages

What Is This Thing Called “ACT”?

chapter 7|2 pages

What About ACT and Exposure?

chapter 8|4 pages

What Lies Ahead?

part III|33 pages

The Trilogy That Makes Your Life Miserable

chapter 9|10 pages

What Are the Compulsions You’re Doing?

chapter 10|3 pages

Don’t Forget About Avoidant Behaviors!

chapter 11|17 pages

Do You Know Your Ruling-Thoughts?

part IV|18 pages

Facts and Fantasy About Getting Rid of Obsessions

part V|26 pages

Learning to Date Your Mind

chapter 16|2 pages

Let Your Mind Do Its Own Minding

chapter 17|2 pages

Fall Out of Blind Love With Your Mind!

chapter 18|3 pages

Get Out of the Content of Your Mind!

chapter 22|3 pages

Watch Out for Fake-Acceptance!

chapter 23|2 pages

Hold Your Mind Lightly!

chapter 24|4 pages

Always Check What Works!

part VI|26 pages

Shift, Shift, Shift … Shift Your Moves!

chapter 25|9 pages

Watching Your Mind

chapter 27|4 pages

Acceptance Moves

chapter 28|4 pages

Keeping an Eye on Your Shift Moves!

part VII|24 pages

Designing Your Life and Living Your Life

chapter 29|12 pages

Figuring Out What Matters

chapter 30|3 pages

Living Your HOWs

chapter 31|2 pages

Counting Your HOWs Moves

chapter 32|4 pages

Taking a Break

part IX|22 pages

Unpacking Blocks for Making W.I.S.E. M.O.V.E.S

chapter 40|6 pages

I Can’t Do It

Reason-Giving Thoughts

chapter 41|6 pages

I Would Rather Be Safe

Values-Conflict or Fake-Value?

chapter 42|4 pages

Why Am I Doing This?

Lack of Values Clarity

chapter 43|4 pages

I’m Doing Hundreds of Exposures

New Compulsion?

part X|30 pages

Moving Forward

chapter 44|4 pages

Make Mini W.I.S.E. M.O.V.E.S. On-the-Go

chapter 45|3 pages

Soften Up With Self-Compassion

chapter 47|4 pages

Self-Compassion Reflective Exercises

chapter 48|2 pages

Self-Compassion Exercises On-the-Run

chapter 49|2 pages

Life Is Imperfect!

chapter 50|1 pages

The Illusion of Control

chapter 51|6 pages

How to Handle Those Unexpected Moments

chapter |2 pages

Departing Words