ABSTRACT
This chapter is written for clinicians who help clients with body image and weight concerns, and who have watched clients try and fail at various behavioral strategies to lose weight and feel better about themselves and their bodies. It offers us and our clients a liberating invitation to give up ineffective struggles with weight loss and body image. This chapter provides a rationale for a self-acceptance-based approach to client weight concerns and helps we understand why a radically different approach to these concerns may offer greater improvement for our clients. It provides a guide to conducting self-acceptance-based treatment. The chapter troubleshoots common problems that arise in Accept Yourself! treatment, and also help we address the common situation where clients have comorbid weight-related physical health concerns for which weight loss is often recommended. Accept Yourself! draws on both Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Health At Every Size® treatment paradigms.
