The current issue of the Dutch Journal of Behavior Therapy (Gedragstherapie) contains an interesting study of the efficacy of Solution Focused Therapy...
This is very interesting. I wonder which sort of Solution Focused Therapy they were using? I recently wrote a paper that basically asks why many the Marriage...
I'm wondering if there have been any studies on the relationship of compassion fatigue, experiential avoidance, and fusion. It seems to me that if a therapist...
Sure, many individuals find that others perspectives differ from their own. And perspective taking and context are not one of the same. Taking the perspective...
When I say "perspective" I don't mean "advice." The "perspective" that people in 12-step groups is not "advice" from others telling them not to use. That's...
I would just suggest that interventions that aim to change the relationship between a person and their thoughts from one where thoughts that were once believed...
Hello all, I'll be teaching a graduate level psychopathology 1 class in the fall & I'm desperately seeking a text that does not "pathologize"...... how's that...
The psychopathology class I am in, as it is within a Marriage and Family Therapy program, does not focus on specific treatments at all. The perspective in my...
Re "It depends on my goal. If my goal is to feel better about using drugs, I'll listen to drug users. If my goal is to stop using drugs, I will be better off...
Does anyone know of any studies using ACT with diverse cultures? I'm working on a paper and need to look at the use of a specific CBT approach with diverse...
This comes up regularly and is in the archives. It is also on the site Among others look at esp. at: Tobias/JoAnne's epilepsy study (poor South African blacks)...
Hello, I'm new to this group and hope this is an appropriate place to bounce around ACT-related research ideas. I am in the process of sorting out my...
Hi Mike- First, my (limited) understanding of these approaches is that treatment focuses both on challenging dysfunctional thoughts and reducing the anxiety ...
Jen Plumb
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Hi Kate: My research team has produced some recent work showing that experiential avoidance is inversely related to various dimensions of well-being. You can...
Hi Kate: My research team has produced some recent work showing that experiential avoidance is inversely related to various dimensions of well-being. You can...
Someone asked if the poll was online. In response, yes, it is. See link below. Joel http://www.contextualpsychology.org/act_in_private_practice_topics ... ...
Hi Jen (and everyone else)! The bottom line is that research is clearly needed to sort these issues out, particularly research that carefully examines what has...
Hello. I am new to learning the basic concepts that frame ACT and its theoretical base. I am interested in the ideas that separate collectivistic cultures...
I agree with Sue, but have a few bits to add. It may be true that CT/CBT procedures tap processes like ACT -- less entanglement with thoughts. The context for...
MessageHi John, As for the study on anxiety and ACT versus other CBT protocols. Any particular anxiety disorder or what are the inclusion criteria? Great to...
Niklas Törneke
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MessageHello dear List members Does anyone know about user friendly - taped sessions demonstrating the differences?Hopefully with titles pointing to the...
Aryeh Keshet-Baksht
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Jul 4, 2006 12:51 pm
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Hi Niklas -- This is a multisite study (UCLA & Albany) -- inclusion criteria are any anxiety disorder as a primary diagnosis. The tests are between two...
I agree that a large part of what doesn't work for people in our culture is based on being self-centered rather than family system oriented, or even ...
Hi everyone, I am looking for an ACT therapist in Zurich, Vienna, or Munich; a person in the Czech Republic would also be fine, as long as s/he spoke fluent ...
MessageNot to be overly agreeable, but I agree. Studies 1,2, & 4 would definitely be a contribution. I think a mechanism study could also be a contribution,...
This is a long and complicaated problem so let me note from the beginning that every thing I say is inadequate and needs further explanation and qualifiers....
... This 'struggle' of sorts you refer to--"To break down someone's insistence on being the center of the world"-- is nowhere close to any agenda of ACT that...
I am still looking for materials for the workshop on ACt process measures at the world con So far I have 30 or so general process measures, and ***zero*** ...
Just wondering if there might be a tatology (sp) here. If the word "fulfillment" denotes those occassions in which one achieves what is desired and "happiness"...
Hi everyone, I have a question about the AAQ II. I would like to use a version of the AAQ that would allow me to look at willingness and committed action as...