Thomas Gustavsson

Josef Bigun

This book constitutes the refeered proceedings of the 13th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2003, held in Halmstad, Sweden in June/July 2003. The 148 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers are organized in topical sections on feature extraction, depth and surface, shape analysis, coding and representation, motion analysis, medical image processing, color analysis, texture analysis, indexing and categorization, and segmentation and spatial grouping.

13th Scandinavian Conference, SCIA 2003 Halmstad, Sweden, June 29 – July 2, 2003 Proceedings

Image Analysis

Kirk Strosahl

Patricia Robinson

När behandlare och klient möts är tiden ofta begränsad. Ändå är varaktig och meningsfull beteendeförändring möjlig att åstadkomma. Fokuserad ACT beskriver en fokuserad behandlingsinsats på upp till fem samtal utifrån kärnkomponenterna i acceptance and commitment therapy, ACT. Syftet är att bidra till den förändring som klienten är beredd att göra – och som allra mest höjer personens livskvalitet och funktionsnivå. Med ett strukturerat och pedagogiskt upplägg, och ett lättförståeligt språkbruk, går författarna igenom olika interventioner med hjälp av illustrerande fallexempel. Denna utgåva har ett extra kapitel om hur man implementerar metoden i befintliga verksamheter i Sverige. Fokuserad ACT ger en bra introduktion till ACT-modellens centrala processer och utgör också en värdefull kunskapskälla för mer erfarna behandlare som vill vidareutveckla sina praktiska färdigheter i ACT. Boken passar således både studerande och yrkesverksamma kliniker. De tre författarna har utvecklat behandlingsmodellen Fokuserad ACT. Kirk Strosahl och Patricia Robinson är fil.dr och psykologer verksamma i USA, samt världsledande inom ACT. Thomas Gustavsson är leg. psykolog och verksam vid Segesholms behandlingshem och Human ACT i Skåne. Han har arbetat med ACT sedan slutet av 1990-talet.

Fokuserad ACT

Kirk D. Strosahl

Patricia J. Robinson

"A practical guide that presents a user-friendly approach to helping patients enact radical change and acceptance through mindfulness in their personal lives." —Family Medicine In this breakthrough book, cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Kirk Strosahl and two fellow ACT psychologists offer a brief, five-stage model to help you recognize, assess, and take advantage of the subtle shifts of awareness that occur during therapy to achieve the most effective intervention and successful treatment outcomes. In therapy, it is essential for both clinicians and their clients to pay attention to each moment in-session as an opportunity to create change. In addition, clients must be willing to experience pain in the present moment in order to make lasting change and begin to live according to their values. But staying in the moment is harder than it sounds. Inside This Moment offers a powerful skill set for learning to live in the now—even when it hurts. To help you and your client make the most of your time in treatment sessions, this book includes clinical examples of working with clients via self-related processes, and offers tips for what to do when faced with certain non-verbal and verbal client behaviors, such as: looking away or down body positioning respiration rate giving general answers to specific questions changing the topic forgetting what was asked repeating oneself over and over changes in rate of speech voice volume You'll learn that you don't need to go looking for radical change opportunities—but rather that the opportunities are transpiring right in front of you. This book will allow you to relax and trust in the power of the "now" in your therapy sessions.

A Clinician's Guide to Promoting Radical Change Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Inside This Moment

As a mental health professional, you know it’s a real challenge to help clients develop the psychological skills they need to live a vital life. This is especially true when you are working with time constraints or in settings where contacts with the client will be brief. Brief Interventions for Radical Change is a powerful resource for any clinician working with clients who are struggling with mental health, substance abuse, or life adjustment issues. If you are searching for a more focused therapeutic approach that requires fewer follow-up visits with clients, or if you are simply looking for a way to make the most of each session, this is your guide. In this book, you’ll find a ready-to-use collection of brief assessment and case-formulation tools, as well as many brief intervention strategies based in focused acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). These tools and strategies can be used to help your clients stop using unworkable behaviors, and instead engage in committed, values-based actions to change their lives for the better. The book includes a practical approach to understanding how clients get stuck, focusing questions to help clients redefine their problem, and tools to increase motivation for change. In addition, you will learn methods for rapidly constructing effective treatment plans and effective interventions for promoting acceptance, present-moment awareness, and contact with personal values. With this book, you will easily integrate important mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based therapeutic work in their interactions with clients suffering from depression, anxiety, or any other mental health problem.

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