Hey guys. About a month ago, I posted a measure of body image acceptance developed by Kelly Wilson and myself on the contextualpsychology.org website. While...
Hi there! I am a student at the University of Copenhagen currently writing my master thesis about ACT and its potential utility in obesity treatment. I am just...
Rikke, I am not aware of data published yet for Cooper and Fairburn's CBT for obesity. You might want to look at Sbrocco's behavioral choice treatment: ...
HI, I have just started postgraduate studies in Galway, Ireland, under Dr. Ian Stewart. I am interested in investigating implicit attitudes towards weight/...
Hello everybody, I am a student at the University of Copenhagen currently finishing my theoretical Master Thesis about CBT for obesity and the potential use of...
Hello I am a psychiatrist in Winterthur, Switzerland, and somewhat experienced in the treatment of eating disorders. Having read some books on ACT and having...
Hello! I'm so excited to join this group! My name is Kathleen Young, and I am a graduate student at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. I...
Hi, want to introduce myself. I have a group of women who want to lose weight, but I'm not motivated enough to help them. I was wondering if some of you on...
Hi Jan, can you tell me what ACT is in helping people to eating disorders? Susan ... eatingconcernsandcontextualpsychology@yahoogroups.com, "jan_martz" ... ...
Susan, The purpose of this list is to provide a forum for people who are interested in the application of Relational Frame Theory and/or Acceptance and...
Hi all. I am working on a protocol for a project I am mounting here at Ole Miss using ACT with individuals with eating concerns. We hope to start with a half...
Hi Emily, A few questions about the group first -- then I am sure I'll have some thoughts. You mention it is for those with eating concerns -- specifically...
Alix, First on the target population - I desribed them vaguely as "individuals with eating concerns" because that is how we are recruiting participants. In...
Okay, So here are some thoughts -- sorry if they are not relevant. I would recommend using some sort of pre-screen a la Yalom for the first set of groups...
Hi Emily, very nice to see some discussions on this list. I´m surely gonna say some obvious things that you already been thinking of .....and here it comes......
Hi! I'm Margit Berman, and I'm a visiting assistant professor of counseling psychology at the University of Minnesota (until the end of the summer, at which...
Hi Margit! I recently gave a talk at the Emily Program on ACT. There is at least one therapist there, Doug Perry, who is very interested in ACT, has had a...
Heh. I might have known you would have some ideas! I should have called you first. I know several folks over at the Emily Program (several of them go to the...
Hi all, Yay, this is my first post- I've finally overcome the fear! Better now than never!! I am an ACT therapist from the eating disorders service in...
Dear Stella, I have been using ACT with clients with Bulimia and Anorexia for a few years now and I will be happy to share my experiences with you. Is there...
Hello Stella, I use ACT with this group as well and had success with it. I second Maria - is there anything specific you were wondering about? Alix -- C. Alix...
Hi Alix and Maria (and all!), Thanks for kindly offering to share your experience in running ACT for BN groups. As you will see, we have heaps of questions to...
Hey guys! I just wanted to apologize to anyone whose been waiting in membership purgatory. The site was having trouble and I could not add anyone for a while....
Hi Alix and Maria (and all!), I'm not sure if I sent this correctly, so here it is again: Thanks for kindly offering to share your experience in running ACT ...
Dear Stella and all, Good questions. I look forward to your comments. I just took Steven's training and was wondering how to use ACT with AN. Health and self...
Dear Stella, Sorry for the delay in responding. I have not had an experience with BN groups per se. For the last 3 years I have been working individually with...
Hi all... We've been getting a little bit of a rush in membership activity, only to find that the conversation very very quiet here recently. So I'm sitting...
Hi group, I work as a psychotherapist at a residential eating disorders facility. I'm new to ACT work. I'd done some reading on it and recently went to a ...
Tyler, Thanks for introducing yourself and welcome! I know that experience of being attracted to the theory but having trouble practicing it when really scary...
Rikke, Not sure if you're on the main ACT listserv, but there are two review articles of the "thrid wave" or mindfulness/acceptance movement that were recently...
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