ACT FOR TREATING CHILDREN

The Essential Guide to Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy for Kids

More than ever, clinicians need customizable approaches for treating
children with mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression.
Written by an experienced educational psychologist, ACT for Treating
Children offers clear, practical, brief, and developmentally appropriate
strategies grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help
children ages five to twelve learn effective coping skills, manage emotions,
and bounce back from life's difficulties. It can be difficult to know where to
start when using ACT for individual therapy with children. That's why the
skills in this go-to guide are practical and easy-to-implement, can be done
with children in both in-person therapy and online sessions, and are simple
enough for children to put into practice in any setting.
Tamar D. Black, PhD, is an educational and developmental psychologist
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is a school psychologist and runs a
private practice, working with children, adolescents, and parents. She has
extensive experience providing clinical supervision to early career and highly
experienced psychologists.