Adult Partial Hospital Programs

Partial Hospitalization Program Provider Resources

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Recommended Books

Hayes, S.C., Strosahl, K.D., and Wilson, K.G. (2012). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change (2nd Edition). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Hayes, S.C. and Stroshal, K.D. (2004). A Practical Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. New York, NY: Springer.

Luoma, J.B., Hayes, S.C., and Walser, R.D. (2007). Learning ACT: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills-Training Manual for Therapists. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

Zettle, R.D. (2007). ACT for Depression: A Clinician’s Guide to Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Treating Depression. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

Eifert, G.H. and Forsyth, J.P. (2005). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: A Practitioner’s Treatment Guide to Using Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Values-Based Behavior Change Strategies. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

Hayes, S.C., Follette, V.M. and Linehan, M.M. (2004). Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Segal, Z.V., Williams, J.M.G. and Teasdale, J.D. (2002). Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: A New Approach to Preventing Relapse. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.

Strosahl, K., Robinson, P. and Gustavsson, T. (2012). Brief Interventions for Radical Change: Principles and Practice of Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.

Selected Relevant Publications by the Partial Hospital Program Team

Dalrymple, K.L. and Herbert, J.D. (2007). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for generalized social anxiety disorder: A pilot study. Behavior Modification, 31, 543-568.

Dalrymple, K.L., Fiorentino, L., Politi, M., and Posner, D. (2010). Incorporating principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for insomnia: A case example. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 40, 209-217.

Levin, M.E., Dalrymple, K. and Zimmerman, M. (in press). Which facets of mindfulness predict the presence of substance use disorders in an outpatient psychiatric sample? Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Dalrymple, K.L., Morgan, T.A., Lipschitz, J.M., Martinez, J.H., Tepe, E. and Zimmerman, M. (in press). An integrated, acceptance-based behavioral approach for depression with social anxiety: Preliminary results. Behavior Modification.

Zimmerman, M., Martinez, J.H., Morgan, T.A., Young, D., Chelminski, I. and Dalrymple, K. (2013). Distinguishing bipolar II depression from major depressive disorder with comorbid borderline personality disorder: Demographic, clinical, and family history differences. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 74, 880-886.

Zimmerman, M. (2012). Would broadening the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder do more harm than good? Implications from longitudinal studies of subthreshold conditions. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 73, 437-443.

Zimmerman, M., Martinez, J.H., Young, D., Chelminski, I. and Dalrymple, K. (2012). Sustained unemployment in psychiatric outpatients with bipolar depression compared to major depressive disorder with comorbid borderline personality disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 14, 856-862.

D’Avanzato, C., Martinez, J., Attiullah, N., Friedman, M., Toba, C., Boerescu, D.A. and Zimmerman, M. (2013). Anxiety symptoms among remitted depressed outpatients: Prevalence and association with quality of life and psychosocial functioning. Journal of Affective Disorders, 151, 401-404.