Routledge A Workbook of Acceptance-Based Approaches for Weight Concerns: The Accept Yourself! Framework

This three-part workbook offers a concise and forgiving research- based guide to clients’ diffi culties with sustained weight loss. Part 1 is a review of your client’s previous efforts at weight control and image change, as well as information and a review of research to help your client understand why weight loss might not have worked in the past. Part 2 contains information and exercises to help your client develop a new acceptance of their body and their relationship with food, as well as tools to develop mindfulness and self- compassion. Part 3 will help your client identify, experiment with, and commit to values related to food, appearance, and other important areas of life, tackling troublesome mental and practical barriers along the way. Review "To end the profound struggle with weight and health that so many people today endure, we must stop the insanity of doing what we have always done and develop new ways to truly help people. Accept Yourself! provides an in-depth guide to doing just that, using evidence-based strategies to improve how a person relates to food, their bodies and themselves. The results can be just what the doctor ordered." Marsha Hudnall, MS, RDN, Co-owner, Green Mountain at Fox Run and 2016-2018 President, The Center for Mindful Eating. About the Author Margit I. Berman is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and associate professor of clinical psychology at the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University. She was the recipient of the 2015 Hitchcock Foundation Scholars Career Development award for her research and development of the Accept Yourself! intervention for women with obesity and depression. She is past chair of the Society for Counseling Psychology’s Section for the Promotion of Psychotherapy Science, and is on the editorial boards of The Counseling Psychologist and the Journal of Counseling Psychology.