Author: Alyssa N. Wilson, PhD., BCBA-D, LBA Since I first started doing acceptance and commitment training (ACT) workshops back in graduate school, attendees always seem to ask similar questions: Now what? How do I bring what I learned into my clinical practice? What if I mess up and don’t use ACT correctly? How do I …
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Author: Steven C. Hayes, PhD With virtually all clients, sooner or later difficult thoughts get in the way. They might be self-critical thoughts like “I’m not good enough” and “I’m hopeless”, or even more grim ones like “life is empty” or “I feel like ending it all”. Whichever form they take, once they show up, …
Acceptance and mindfulness had made a big difference in my own life dealing with chronic pain, but until then I didn’t really have the tools to bring mindfulness and acceptance to life in the work I was doing.
Author: Matthew Boone, LCSW Having a mind is hard. You may have noticed that no matter what you do, your mind never stops working. It spits out predictions, observations, commentary, plans, judgments and other stuff all day long. This can be quite useful, but a lot of what your mind offers can be quite negative. …
Author: Kenzie Davison, MA, BCBA ACT in Action Many applied behavior analyst (ABA) folks are curious about acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and how the approach can support meaningful social change within our science. We finally have a tool with “broadly useful methods of change that work, and that do so through change processes that …
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The following are excerpts from Mark Gilson’s interview with David Burns, MD for his radio show, “What the Folk?!” on WRFG Atlanta. Dr. Mark: Hello Dr. David Burns, thank you for being on WRFG Atlanta. Sure is good to talk to you again. Dr. David Burns: Hello Dr. Mark Gilson, thank you for having me …
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The following is an excerpt from an interview with Laurel Parnell, PhD conducted by Guy Macpherson, PhD on the Trauma Therapist Podcast. The full podcast recording is available below. Guy Macpherson: Alright, so Doctor Parnell is a clinical …
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Photo: Mark Brayne Author: Mark Brayne, Parnell Institute Training Facilitator and Director of EMDR Focus. Half-way through a demonstration session at an Attachment-Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) workshop in London last year, it was becoming clear that my volunteer client and I were getting worryingly stuck. We’d identified where George was being triggered in his present life …
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Author: Philip Manfield, PhD The flash technique (FT) was introduced in 2017 (Manfield et al.) to solve the problem of how to help clients tolerate disturbing memories that they find overwhelming. Most trauma treatment approaches require clients to think about their traumatic memories as a prerequisite to resolving them, but our most difficult clients are …
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