Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Clinician's Guide for Supporting Parents constitutes a principles-based guide for clinicians to support parents across various stages of child and adolescent development. It uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as an axis to integrate evolution science, behaviour analysis, attachment theory, emotion-focused and compassion-focused therapies into a cohesive framework. From this integrated framework, the authors explore practice through presenting specific techniques, experiential exercises, and clinical case studies.

Introduction --Parenting -- Connect: the parent-child relationship -- Shape: building a flexible repertoire -- Case Conceptualization -- Therapeutic Relationship -- Values and Proto-values -- Experiential acceptance of parent, child and relationship -- Contact with the present moment including shared psychological contact -- Flexible languaging -- Flexible perspective taking -- Compassionate Context -- Committed Action and Exploration -- Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with other interventions -- Conclusions.