The Psychology of Enhancing Human Performance
The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) Approach

The Psychology of Enhancing Human Performance
The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment (MAC) Approach
The MAC approach developed by connecting the more traditional scientific knowledge base on human performance and self-regulation to more contemporary findings to do with meta-cognitive processes, emotion regulation, and acceptance-based behavioral interventions. Written by the originators of the MAC model, this book will provide both the necessary theory, empirical background, and a structured step-by-step, easy-to-use protocol for the understanding, assessment, conceptualization, and enhancement of human performance. It is a protocol that can be readily adapted for a wide variety of high-performing clientele--from athletes and business people, to sales people, professionals in a variety of fields, and emergency/military personnel. The material can be integrated by practicing clinicians as an adjunctive intervention strategy to help clients with specific performance problems. Numerous case examples, forms, handouts, in- and out-of-session assignments and activities, and verbatim client instructions are included.
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List of Figures
- Understanding Functional and Dysfunctional Human Performance: The Integrative Model of Human Performance (IMHP)
- From Change to Acceptance: The Mindfulness-Acceptance-Commitment Approach to Performance Enhancement
- Planning for the MAC
- MAC Module 1: Preparing the Client with Psychoeducation
- MAC Module 2: Introducing Mindfulness and Cognitive Defusion
- MAC Module 3: Introducing Values and Values-Driven Behavior
- MAC Module 4: Introducing Acceptance
- MAC Module 5: Enhancing Commitment
- MAC Module 6: Skill Consolidation and Poise: Combining Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Commitment
- MAC Module 7: Maintaining and Enhancing Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Commitment
- Case Study I: Performance Dysfunction: The Case of Kayla
- Case Study II: Performance Development: The Case of Daniel
- Case Study III: Considerations in the Group Application of MAC
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations
Part II: Strategies and Techniques of the MAC Approach to Performance Enhancement
Part III: Case Studies

- Release Date: July 30, 2007
- Hardback
- 312 Pages
- Trim Size: 6.38in x 9.07in
- ISBN: 9780826102607
- eBook ISBN: 9780826103369