ABSTRACT

This clinician manual presents the Accept Yourself! Program, which is derived from empirically supported interventions (including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Health At Every Size) that have a demonstrated ability to enhance women’s mental and physical health. This book offers a clear, research-based, and forgiving explanation for clients’ failure to lose weight, helpful guidance for clinicians who are frustrated with poor client weight loss outcomes, as well as a liberating invitation to clients to give up this struggle and find another way to achieve their dreams and goals.

part |58 pages

Why Use an Acceptance-Based Approach to Weight Management?

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

Choosing and Using a Self-Acceptance-Based Approach: Cautions and Language

chapter 1|25 pages

The Science of Obesity and Weight Loss

Why Weight Control Doesn’t Work

chapter 2|15 pages

Clinician Stigma in Weight Management Treatment

First, Do No Harm

chapter 3|12 pages

A New Alternative

Acceptance-Based Approaches to Client Weight Concerns

part |108 pages

Accept Yourself! Skills and Techniques

chapter 4|12 pages

Exploring Weight Control as a Problem

chapter 5|9 pages

Identifying and Producing Programming

chapter 6|11 pages

Mindfulness and Self-Acceptance

chapter 10|17 pages

Embodying Values

chapter 11|13 pages

Values and Barriers

part |29 pages

Special Situations in Treatment