About the book
Motivate your BPD clients with values-based treatment! This 16-week ACT protocol will help you get started today.
As you know, clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and emotion dysregulation often struggle with negative beliefs about themselves—beliefs that can lead to feelings of shame, problems with personal relationships, and dangerous behaviors. And while dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is the standard treatment for BPD, more and more, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has shown promising results when treating BPD clients by helping them focus on their core values and forgiveness.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder provides a comprehensive program for delivering ACT to clients with BPD. Using the session-by-session, 16-week protocol in this professional guide, you can help clients work through the main driver behind BPD—experiential avoidance—and gain the psychological flexibility needed to balance their emotions and begin healing. You can use this protocol on its own, or in conjunction with treatment.
With this guide, you’ll learn to target the fundamental causes of BPD for better treatment outcomes and happier, healthier clients.
What’s inside
Chapter 1: What is Emotional Regulation?
Chapter 2: What is ACT?
Chapter 3: ACT for Emotion Regulation
Chapter 4: Orientation to Treament
Chapter 5: Session 1: The Basics of Emotional Awareness
Chapter 6: Session 2: Emotional Awareness
Chapter 7: Session 3: Emotional Awareness
Chapter 8: Session 4: Emotional Awareness
Chapter 9: Session 5: Emotional Awareness
Chapter 10: Session 6: Thought Awarness
Chapter 11: Session 7: Thought Awarness
Chapter 12: Session 8: Thoughts as Stories
Chapter 13: Session 9: Body Awareness
Chapter 14: Session 10: Body Awareness
Chapter 15: Session 11: Interpersonal Awareness
Chapter 16: Session 12: Interpersonal Awareness
Chapter 17: Session 13: Conflict Tactics: The Heart of the Problem
Chapter 18: Session 14: Interpersonal Awareness
Chapter 19: Session 15: Radical Awarness
Chapter 20: Session 16: ACT Lab
Chapter 21: ACT for Behavioral Regulation
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About Dr. Z.
I’m originally from Bolivia, South America, and am a psychologist by training. I’m formally trained in empirically supported treatments, and when I say “formally,” I mean that since 2004 I have received intensive training in them, particularly in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT).
Over the past 18 years, I have created resources for and worked with overthinkers and overachievers dealing with all types of fear--related struggles: perfectionism, procrastination, productivity anxiety, uncertainty intolerance, indecision, impostor phenomenon, overthinking, phobias, rumination, panic, worry and obsessive-compulsive disorder. I absolutely love my job!
In 2019, I was nominated as a fellow by the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science because of my contributions related to the applications of ACT for fear-based struggles. I’m the author of seven books and the co-author of three (see the section on previously written books).
I’m the founder and director of the East Bay Behavior Therapy Center, a boutique private center in the San Francisco Bay Area that offers therapy and coaching for anyone experiencing anxiety-based struggles.
In 2023, I gave a TEDx talk, “Stop playing-it-safe and start living” that has more than 264K downloads.
While I’m a psychologist by training and science-based by passion, my style is jargon-free, accessible, caring, and lighthearted; teaching ACT skills doesn’t have to be boring or inaccessible, so I do my best to make every skill I teach—in any format—as engaging as possible.
I believe that learning to navigate fear-based reactions is one of the key skills of the 21st century, and I’m passionate about it.
I'm passionate about disseminating ACT skills for anxiety-based struggles.
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