ACT in Context

Jonathan Singer Ph.D is a proud social worker and an expert on suicide. He is also the host of the Social Work podcast. http://socialworkpodcast.blogspot.com/

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Relational Frame Theory (RFT) has gained interest as a disctinct approach to working with human psychopathology from a functional analysis framework including cognition. Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, our guest on this episode of the podcast has long been at the helm of pioneering innovations in RFT from basic science, laboratory experiements to a clinical application of RFT, ROE (relating, orienting, evoking). Yvonne shares her insights into clinical practice from a ROE/RFT approach that is unique and will be of interest to clinicians seeking to advance their ACT practice or simply find novel of applying the theory under the proverbial hood of ACT.

For more on clinical applications of basic behavioural science check out www.go-rft.com

For those interested in a primer on behavioural science (especially those who did not have an education steeped in behavior analysis/functional analysis), Joanne Steinwachs & Timothy Gordon (your podcast hosts) are preparing an intensive online course for clinicians available at https://thezensocialworker.thinkific.com

The ACT in Context Podcast in co-hosted by Joanne Steinwachs and Timothy Gordon.

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Dr. Emmett “Rick” Bishop is the co-founder of the Eating Recovery Center, the nation's only health care system dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders at all levels of care. Several years ago, Rick transitioned the entire treatment approach to ACT. He discusses his personal and professional journey working with eating disordered clients.

The ACT in Context Podcast in co-hosted by Joanne Steinwachs and Timothy Gordon.

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Tim and Joanne continue their discussion of the complexities adapting ACT to trauma, focusing on working with perpetrators in this episode. We talk about the challenges of engaging offenders in treatment when they are sometimes mandated to attend or at other times don't view their behavior as problematic and making ACT experiential in a way that encourages perpetrators to understand their behavior functionally so that they can begin practicing ACT in and out of session.

The ACT in Context Podcast in co-hosted by Joanne Steinwachs and Timothy Gordon.

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Dennis is an innovator straddling the words of ACT and CFT (Compassion Focused Therapy). He joins us to talk about the intersection of radical behaviorism in a wide ranging and intellectually rigorous conversation. Joanne, Dennis, and Tim each reflect on practice and technique in this episode with a focus on what works for each. Make sure to listen on to the end of the podcast where Tim and Joanne take a moment to debrief.

The ACT in Context Podcast is co-hosted by Joanne Steinwachs and Timothy Gordon.

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Follow Dennis' very active twitter account for enlightening tweets about compassion, mindfulness, and the muck of living: @DennisTirchPhD

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Why learn Relational Frame Theory (RFT)? Niklas Törneke, who’s written extensively about RFT talks to us about his journey as a clinician learning RFT and integrating it into his practice as well as his commitment to helping others learn.

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We also discussed Dr. Ellen Langer’s work on mindfulness. Here’s where to find out more about her and her work. https://www.ellenlanger.com/about/

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Tim and Joanne continue their discussion of working with people experiencing complex trauma. This episode covers a variety of topics relevant for clinicians, particularly the impact on the therapist of doing this work. Intrusive and flooding memories are discussed in a way that can normalize them for people, which can lead to more acceptance and flexibility.

James Gandolfini’s video which we’ve mentioned before is Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Alive-Day-Memories-Home-Iraq/dp/B00MLY5V2U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544884078&sr=8-1&keywords=alive+day+memories

The ACT in Context Podcast in co-hosted by Joanne Steinwachs and Timothy Gordon.

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On this episode we discuss a much requested topic: ACT for Groups with Joann Wright and Darrah Westrup. Dives deep into our own experience of running ACT groups as well as technical proficiences we've developed over time. It occurs to us during this conversation that living the ACT model, being psychologically flexible ourselves in how we deliver an ACT group is a big part of the experience.

The ACT in Context Podcast is hosted by Joanne Steinwachs & Timothy Gordon

Books mentioned in the podcast

 Mindful Yoga-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Advanced Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Experienced Practitioner's Guide to Optimizing Delivery,

Learning ACT for Group Treatment: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills Training Manual for Therapists

Darrah’s website https://drdarrah.com/

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Mindful Yoga-based ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) is a program created by Timothy Gordon and co-developed by Jessica Borushok and Steve Ferrell. MYACT is an 8 week group protocol integrating yoga into clinical practice for therapists that blends yoga philosophy with ACT and augments ACT's psychological flexibility training with yoga practices. Throughout the MYACT program, the six unique cores of ACT are trained during the yoga practice but also with new group activities to build meaningful interactions in therapeutic settings. The MYACT book includes adaptations of the group program to individual sessions and encourages clinicians to use yoga asana, breathing, mantra, chanting, and philosophy to augment the work they're already doing as an experiential approach to training psychological flexibility in-session.

The Mindful Yoga-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy book by Timothy Gordon, Jessica Borushok, and Steve Ferrell is now available!

Take a dive into practicing yoga with this 30 day yoga challenge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB2yzo5t66s&list=PL-QVJ0oJH-XN3U3sWINExXUCvJRftsPv1

The ACT in Context Podcast is co-hosted by Timothy Gordon & Joanne Steinwachs.

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Daniel J. (DJ) Moran takes a deep dive with us into the discourse of ACT as an empirically supported treatment and how its underlying philosophy of functional contextualism can be used to empower clinicians as technical ecclectics, who can integrate other empirically supported treatments to expand the repertoire of responding organically to clinical and non-clinical situations without relying on "explanatory fictions" or theoretical ecclectism, while also honoring the experience, wisdom, and utility of non-ACT derived techniques and methods. Our conversation naturally evolves into discussing DJ's application of ACT as Acceptance & Commitment Training for organizational psychology and workplace safety. Our focus on the behavioral science tradition inspiring ACT assists us and we hope you too (our listener) in producing creative variations of ACT to meet the needs of the varied situations we find ourselves in professionally.

You can learn more about DJ at his website: https://www.drdjmoran.com

The ACT in Context Podcast is co-hosted by Timothy Gordon & Joanne Steinwachs.

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