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Team Positive

Team Positive addresses what happens when illness enters a life and reshapes everything around it. The book offers practical guidance for managing the emotional impact of serious health conditions, building compassionate and effective support teams, and developing the psychological flexibility needed to move forward with meaning. Written for those living with illness and those walking alongside them, it focuses on role clarity, values guided action, and sustaining connection even when circumstances cannot be fixed. Grounded in real world experience, Team Positive helps readers shift from coping alone to moving forward together.

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ACT in Action

This book offers a clear, grounded approach to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy rooted in Functional Contextualism and Relational Frame Theory. Rather than presenting ACT as a model to follow or a set of techniques to apply, it focuses on how skilled ACT actually works in practice, through functional thinking, contextual sensitivity, and moment to moment responsiveness. The emphasis is on workability, psychological flexibility, and values guided action, helping clinicians move beyond rules and toward fluency. Written for therapists, supervisors, and advanced learners, this book supports the shift from knowing ACT conceptually to practicing it with depth, precision, and integrity.

ACT In ACTION

Subtle Essence: The Art of Act

Subtle Essence explores what actually makes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy work beneath techniques, models, and language. The book focuses on therapist presence, functional sensitivity, and the moment to moment relational processes that shape change in the therapy room. Rather than teaching new strategies, it invites clinicians to refine how they see, respond, and engage when things are quiet, uncertain, or emotionally alive. Written for experienced clinicians and advanced learners, Subtle Essence is about developing depth, precision, and trust in the craft of ACT itself.

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© 2015 by Todd Schmenk, M.S., M.Ed., LMHC

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