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Therapists & CoachesThere are a wealth of free resources on this website, for therapists and coaches to use in conjunction with ACT With Love; just go to the Free Resources page. You can also find a stack of free resources for use with The Happiness Trap at this page on our parent website: www.thehappinesstrap.com/free_resources. For details of ACT Workshops in Australia visit our Australian website: www.actmindfully.com.au Down below, you'll find a variety of interesting articles and papers relating to ACT. Please note: all therapists, coaches, and other health professionals are welcome to join the worldwide ACT emailing list. This email 'chat group' enables an online ACT community where professionals from all over the world can get advice, discuss concepts, contribute ideas, provide peer supervision, give input into challenging cases, inform about ACT events worldwide, etc. To join, you need to first join the ACBS - Association for Contextual Behavioural Psychology. This organisation is the 'mothership' of ACT and RFT. Membership is via values-based dues - ie you pay whatever you think it's worth. Membership entitles you to a vast array of free resources. For more info, or to join, go to: www.contextualpsychology.org ARTICLES & PAPERS Simple Overview of ACT: To download a simple, non-technical, easy-to-read overview of ACT ( called 'Embracing Your Demons', an article from Psychotherapy Australia magazine) click here. Mindfulness Training: To download a paper by Ruth Baer on Mindfulness Training As A Clinical intervention, click here CBT VERSUS BEHAVIOURAL ACTIVATION: COMPONENT ANALYSIS: To download Neil Jacobson's well-designed component analysis of CBT, which shows that the cognitive restructuring component is unneccessary: click here
REPLICATION OF CBT COMPONENT ANALYSIS: This is a replication of Jacobson's component analysis above. To download, click here
DO WE NEED TO CHALLENGE THOUGHTS IN CBT? The title is self-explanatory. To download, click here
Experiential Avoidance: For a paper by Steve Hayes (warning: heavy with technical jargon!) which reviews Experiential Avoidance, the core pathological process in ACT, click here ACT & Psychosis: For Bach and Hayes' remarkable paper on ACT with chronic psychosis, click here ACT & Chronic Pain & Chronic Stress: A paper by Dahl & Wilson - click here ACT & Substance Abuse: A paper by Kelly Wilson et al - click here Values-centred Interventions In ACT: Superb article by Kelly Wilson - click here Defining Mindfulness: An interesting article on mindfulness by Steve Hayes - click here The ACT Packet: "The ACT Packet" is a detailed handout including a list of published studies, a case formulation framework, and summaries of the core act processes and techniques, click here ACT Hexaflex: A simple slideshow of the ACT model (known as the "ACT hexaflex"), click here
RFT Made Simple: To connect to Eric Fox's easy-to-understand (and totally free) online tutorial on Relational Frame Theory - a sort of "RFT for Dummies", click here Introducing RFT: To download a simple introduction to Relational Frame Theory, click here More Introducing RFT: For a more detailed introduction to Relational Frame Theory, click here ACT, RFT & Mindfulness: For a fascinating paper by Steve Hayes (warning: heavy on technical jargon) that theoretically ties together ACT, RFT and mindfulness, click here
ACT: To visit the official website for Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, click here RFT: To visit the official website for Relational Frame Theory: click here |