ACT in Context

Our guest Miranda Morris shares her personal journey of coming to ACT and implementing contextual behavioural science in her career as a psychologist in private practice. We discuss difficulties with applying CBT to ourselves, still needing to learn and use the DSM despite the fact that as contextualists who focus on functional assessment we have a lot of conceptual and practical issues with the disease model and we also delve into Miranda's interests in exploring the application of psychedelics to mental health.

During the podcast Miranda mentions "How to Change Your Mind" a book by Michael Pollan.

More on Michael Pollan and his work here: https://youtu.be/qzgtJleG3r8

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This episode is a continuation from our last (part 1) discussing the implications of treating complex trauma from an acceptance and mindfulness approach with ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and other allied approaches (including using RFT to understand trauma and sensory issues including 'body memories,' and DBT for self-regulation and coping with skills training). Both Joanne and I have a background, being trained in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic traditions which have rich bodies of information for treating traumatic dissociation and working with people who have suffered prolonged histories of interpersonal trauma—especially abuse.

This is part one of a two part conversation that we have on the subject of complex trauma. As always, we welcome your feedback and questions; you can reach us directly: [email protected]

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This week we discuss the ins and outs of understanding how to treat complex trauma from an acceptance and mindfulness approach with ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and other allied approaches (including using RFT to understand trauma and sensory issues including 'body memories,' and DBT for self-regulation and coping with skills training). Both Joanne and I have a background, being trained in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic traditions which have rich bodies of information for treating traumatic dissociation and working with people who have suffered prolonged histories of interpersonal trauma—especially abuse.

This is part one of a two part conversation that we have on the subject of complex trauma. As always, we welcome your feedback and questions; you can reach us directly: [email protected]

Looking for the 2011-2012 first iteration of the podcast?

Curious to learn more about ACT? Get your free acceptance and commitment therapy self-help ebook:

Jenna is a long-time ACT practitioner who is a co-founder at the Portland Psychotherapy Clinic. Apart from being a luminary in the world of contextual behavioral science, giving advanced workshops on building expertise with ACT skills, and valuing in ACT, Jenna has co-founded an innovative private clinic in Oregon that offers psychotherapy as well as does private research and has set up their own research ethics review process. On the podcast we talk about Jenna's history in coming to ACT, where Jenna was initially engaged with attachment theory research, conducting strange situation, separation paradigm experiments.

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Jessica is a clinician, has conducted grant funded research, is an award winning author, and ACT expert who integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for behavioral medicine as well as other behavioral approaches for helping people with health issues, chronic pain, weight loss, stress, and sleep. Most recently, Jessica has been passionate about self-publishing a self-help, low-cost, ebook. Joanne and I didn't come to ACT from a behavioral background so we were keen to learn about Jessica's journey, she shares her introduction to behavioral therapies from graduate school and how her career has evolved integrating ACT into her therapeutic work.

Glenn is an expert in behavioral therapies, having authored early publications on Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP)—a sister science to ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). On the podcast, Glenn discusses applying behavioral concepts and basic science in general to direct practice. Glenn shares his perspective on current issues in the contextual behavioral science world regarding boundary issues with evocative interpersonal therapeutic contact and shares advancements being made with the Functional Idiographic Assessment Template (FIAT); integrating functional analysis and functional assessment (Glenn discusses as being more accessible to clinicians) into direct practice for clinical behavioral analysis, psychotherapy, counselling, and more.

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Updates on the FIAT that we spoke about on the podcast:

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Patti is an extraordinary woman who has accomplished a lot and continues to make new developments in the world of treating many stuck clinical populations. In this first reboot episode of the ACT in Context Podcast, Patti takes us back through the history of learning ACT during its most earliest development (comprehensive distancing) and collaborating with Steven Hayes in the development of the core processes and the goal—purpose of targeting processes for psychological flexibility.

The ACT in Context Podcast is back! Beginning in October of 2018 new episodes will be posted regularly. Producted by Marcel Tasara, hosted by Joanne Steinwachs and Tim Gordon, the ACT in Context Podcast is being offered as both a traditional podcast with audio and as a video podcast (available on YouTube). Just search for ACT in Context Podcast.

Our goal with the podcast is to have a series of conversations with some of the interesting members of our contextual behavioral sciencecommunity. We think is it like going out for dinner with colleagues at the World Conference and talking about what we're passionate about. We also hope that this podcast will be of interest to the general public, to clients or people curious to know more about ACT and (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and related approaches in contextual behavioral science.

We’re hoping to include our listeners in the conversations so email us at [email protected] and tweet us @ACTinContext 

In this episode, Louise Hayes, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and academic at the University of Melbourne, Australia, discusses the use of ACT principles for therapeutic intervention with adolescents. She describes how to make ACT fun and interesting for this age group, as well as the unique challenges of doing this work effectively.

In this episode, Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D., of the Dissemination and Training Division of the Dept of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD and former president of ACBS, speaks to Jen and John about an ACT approach to treating individuals who have survived trauma and who struggle with post-traumatic stress. Listen and learn with Robyn as she discusses the role of acceptance, mindfulness, and values-based work to help individuals learn to live with, and live far beyond, their trauma histories.