Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Christian Clients A Faith-Based Workbook
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Overview
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Christian Clients: A Faith-Based Workbook, Second Edition, is an indispensable companion for mental health professionals and their clients. The new edition includes updated discussions in each chapter and more than twenty-five new and updated exercises.
The workbook offers a basic overview of the goals of ACT, including concepts that overlap with Christianity. Chapters devoted to each of the six ACT processes include biblical examples, equivalent concepts from the writings of contemplative Christians, worksheets for clients to better understand and apply the material, and strategies for clients to integrate a Christian worldview with ACT processes. Each chapter also includes several exercises devoted to contemplative practices and other psychospiritual interventions.
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- Adapts the “Hexaflex” model of ACT to align with Christian values and biblical teachings.
- Offers a unique take on “Cognitive Defusion” by connecting it to historical Christian contemplative traditions.
- Addresses the “Problem of Pain” directly, providing clients with a way to move toward a meaningful life even when God does not immediately remove their psychological or situational distress.
- Introduction
- The Problem of Psychological Pain
- The Problem of Avoidance
- Defusion and Watchfulness
- Acceptance and Endurance
- Present-Moment Awareness and Practicing God’s Presence
- The Transcendent Self and the Contemplative Self
- Values and Biblical Virtues
- Committed Action and Following Jesus
Persons of faith need evidence-based mental health care that fits hand in glove with their faith commitments. This book shows exactly how that can be done for Christians through the use of acceptance and commitment therapy. Now in its second edition, this excellent book is filled with new and highly accessible exercises and tools that help people pivot from inner to outer, from self to others, and from fear to love. Clear, consistent, accessible, and filled with scientific and religious integrity, it will empower and lift up those facing mental health challenges who want to live a Christian life. Highly recommended.
—Steven C. Hayes, PhD, Nevada Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, originator of acceptance and commitment therapy, and author of A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters
This second edition of Joshua Knabb’s excellent faith-based ACT workbook is even better! It is updated with new exercises for each of the six interventions, a ‘fork in the road’ conceptualization tool based on Russ Harris’s ‘choice point’ approach, and, most notably, a greater emphasis on God’s love. I highly recommend it as a most helpful workbook for both Christian clients and therapists.
—Siang-Yang Tan, PhD, senior professor of clinical psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary and author of Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Christian Perspective
Joshua Knabb keeps this book in the sweet spot of not being too technical nor too informal, but just right in providing scholarly information in an accessible style. This new edition builds on strengths from the first edition to improve and deepen both the presentation of ACT and its meshing with Christian practice. Marvelously helpful material masterfully presented.
—Timothy A. Sisemore, PhD, clinical psychologist at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute and author of The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality: From the Inside Out
- Title: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Christian Clients
- Author: Joshua J. Knabb
- Edition: Second edition
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2026
- Pages: 236
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Acceptance and commitment therapy; Psychotherapy patients › Religious life; Psychotherapy patients › Religious life--Problems, exercises, etc
- ISBNs: 9781000774368, 1000774368
- Resource ID: LLS:CCPTNCCMMTCLNTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2026-03-13T20:46:58Z