Psychologists Off the Clock

How can we help adolescents develop skills to live well and reach their full potential? In this episode, Debbie talks to Dr. Louise Hayes, co-author of The Thriving Adolescent: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection. Together they explore her approach to helping adolescents thrive, not just survive, this challenging time in their development.

Listen and learn:

The unique developmental tasks of adolescenceWhy adaptive risk-taking is necessary and important in adolescenceHow the skills of Discoverer, Noticer, Advisor and Vitality (DNA-V) help adolescents develop flexible strengthWhat matters most for parents of teenagersWhy adolescents are sunsets…not problems to be solved

About Dr. Louise Hayes

Dr. Louise Hayes

Dr. Louise Hayes is a clinical psychologist who is well known for her work using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for young people in schools and clinical settings. She is currently the President of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science. Dr. Hayes is an author, international speaker, a senior fellow with The University of Melbourne and Orygen Youth Health, and a peer-reviewed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT) trainer. 

Dr. Hayes is the co-author of the best-selling book, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teenagers: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life, and the newly released book, The Thriving Adolescent: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection. Together with Joseph Ciarrochi, she conducts research and treatment development; her latest work uses a DNA-v (Discoverer-Noticer-Advisor-Value) treatment model for young people. Louise is also an active humanitarian, taking mental health professionals into the Himalaya to developing their mindfulness skills and raising funds for poor children in remote Nepal.

Resources:

Dr. Hayes’s website with links to her upcoming trainings and workshopsClick here to see a visual image of the DNA-v modelDr. Hayes’ Books:The Thriving Adolescent: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology to Help Teens Manage Emotions, Achieve Goals, and Build Connection Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teens: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life

78. The Self-Driven Child with Dr. William Stixrud100. Celebrating 100 Episodes of Psychologists off the Clock with Debbie, Diana, and Yael!116. Building a Meaningful, Values-based Life with Dr. Jenna LeJeune

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According to neuropsychologist Dr. William Stixrud, parents should be their kids’ consultants, not their managers. When we spend our time trying to control our kids, we weaken them and exhaust ourselves. In this episode, Diana talks with Dr. Stixrud about his book The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives. Additionally, they discuss how to support healthy development, self-motivation, and emotional resilience in our kids. This episode is a game-changer for parents and clinicians, but, of course, “It’s your call” if you want to listen!

Listen and Learn

Why giving kids more sense of control sets them up to thriveA more effective approach to homework battles, technology use, and underage drinkingThe parenting magic of the words, “It’s your call”How to prepare your kids for college (and it’s not practicing SAT’s!)

About Dr. William Stixrud:

Dr. William Stixrud

William R. Stixrud, Ph.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist and founder of The Stixrud Group, a lifespan neuropsychology practice. He is also a member of the faculty at Children’s National Medical Center, and he is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the George Washington School of Medicine. 

Additionally, Dr. Stixrud is a frequent lecturer the author of scientific articles and book chapters on Transcendental Meditation and other topics. Most recently, he is the author--with co-writer Ned Johnson--of The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives. Dr. Stixrud has been quoted often in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, Scientific American, Time.com, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Businessweek, and Vogue. He is also a rock and roll musician and plays in the band Close Enough. 

Resources

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives by William Stixrud and Ned JohnsonThe Stixrud Group: A Lifespan Neuropsychology PracticeWhen a College Student Comes Home to Stay - The New York TimesOn Leave: College Wellness, Mental Health and Not Returning to Campus - On Point

87. Cribsheet with Dr. Emily Oster112. Nature vs. Nurture: Why Temperament Matters With Co-hosts Debbie Sorensen and Yael Schonbrun79. Helping Adolescents Thrive with Dr. Louise Hayes

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In nearly every episode on our podcast, we describe how ACT-based concepts and principles help us heal from pain, make life-affirming choices, and build happiness. Join us for a conversation about a powerful therapeutic approach and general guide to living well, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Dr. Jill Stoddard walks us through the principles of ACT, which have been shown to help individuals with anxiety, depression, chronic pain, relationship problems, and general stress improve their happiness and general well-being. Dr. Jill Stoddard explains the basics of ACT and how we can use ACT-based ideas and strategies to live more meaningfully.

Listen and Learn:

About psychological flexibility, the ability to stay in touch with present circumstances so that you can make choices to persist or cease behaviors in the service of your most important valuesHow reframing emotional pain can allow you to make that pain work better for youIlluminating metaphors that bring to life the 6 core processes of ACT which help us to live more effectively

Resources:

The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: A Practitioner's Guide to Experiential Exercises and Metaphors in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Jill StoddardBe Mighty: A Woman's Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance by Jill StoddardGet Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven HayesThe Center for Stress and Anxiety Management, Director Jill Stoddard

About Dr. Jill Stoddard

Jill Stoddard, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, the director of the Center for Stress & Anxiety Management in Carlsbad. She received her Ph.D. from the renowned Boston University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders under the mentorship of David Barlow. Jill is an award winning teacher and peer-reviewed ACT trainer who has presented at local, national and international conferences and has co-authored articles on CBT, ACT, anxiety disorders, and cardiac and chronic pain. Her newest book, Be Mighty: A Woman's Guide to Liberation from Anxiety, Worry, and Stress Using Mindfulness and Acceptance can be pre-ordered and will be released by New Harbinger next year.

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On today’s episode, we are joined by Dr. Matthew Skinta and Aisling Leonard-Curtin, two mental health providers who specialize in working with gender and sexual minority clients. We discuss:

the emotional impact current events can have for gender and sexual minoritiescoming out with compassionissues of shame, rejection, and minority stress than can arisepromoting resilience among gender and sexual minoritiesa mindfulness- and acceptance-based clinical approach to working with LGBT clientsthe importance of community and connection

Resources:

Dr. Matthew D. Skinta and Aisling Curtin co-edited the book Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities: A Clinician's Guide to Fostering Compassion, Connection, and Equality Using Contextual Strategies.They also co-chaired a conference on evidence-based advances in psychotherapy for sexual orientation and gender diverse clients in the Bay Area in 2017, and are following up with a second international conference in Budapest in September, 2019. You can find Information about the conference here:  Advances in Evidence-Based Psychotherapy for Working with Gender and Sexual Minorities Conference (2nd International)Aisling’s wonderful TEDx Talk, The Power of SmallA Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming ClientsAPA Practice Guidelines for LGB ClientsAPA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming PeoplePFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) For a great source for LGBTQ positive and diversity-oriented children’s books , check out the Flamingo Rampant webpage!

About Our Guests:

Aisling Leonard-Curtin, M.Sc., C.Psychol., Ps.S.I., is a chartered counselling psychologist with the Psychological Society of Ireland who lives with her wife Trish in Dublin, Ireland. She is a TEDx speaker, co-director of Act Now Purposeful Living, has a small private practice, and consults with a number of organisations to deliver acceptance and mindfulness workshops. Aisling is a peer-reviewed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) trainer.  Aisling teaches on many university training programmes, and regularly gives workshops and talks internationally throughout Europe, North America and Australia. She has over a decades experience working in a wide range of settings including adult psychiatry, psycho-oncology, educational, health and community settings. Aisling co-authored The Power of Small: Making Tiny But Powerful Change When Everything Feels Too Much., alongside her wife fellow psychologist Trish, a self-help book aimed at those feeling overwhelmed, which was just recently released in 2019.  Aisling has led public workshops since 2010.  Her passion is making psychological concepts easy to understand and apply for all in the community.

Matthew D. Skinta, PhD, ABPP, is a board-certified clinical health psychologist who lives with his husband in San Francisco, CA. His private practice focuses on challenges posed by shame and interpersonal rejection and their interaction with health behaviors or minority status, and for four years he directed the Sexual and Gender Identities Clinic at Palo Alto University. Matthew’s past research has focused on the impact of stigma and shame on health behaviors of sexual minority men, particularly as it relates to sexual health and HIV-related care. He is a peer-reviewed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer, and is certified as both a compassion cultivation training (CCT) teacher, and as a trainer of functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP). Matthew has provided workshops for professional organizations, universities,

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Self-compassion is a hot topic in psychology. It predicts everything from emotional resilience to therapy outcome. The exciting news is, with practice, you can increase your self-compassion. In this episode, Dr. Christopher Germer, pioneer in self-compassion and co-founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion Program, discusses:

His personal struggle that led him to self-compassion

How being kinder to yourself impacts your well-being

Common fears about self-compassion that keep us stuck in self-criticism

How self-compassion benefits your romantic partnerships

Our podcast has dedicated a number of episodes to compassion for a reason. Increasing self compassion and compassion for others, may just be the key to your well-being. It is an honor today to have Dr. Christopher Germer, leader in the integration of mindfulness in therapy and co-developer of the international Mindful Self Compassion Program onto our show. Diana has been studying his work for a number of years, and it was a joy for her to interview him in person. It is a rare occasion to learn directly from an expert so wise and personally grounded in his work. In this episode, Diana and Dr. Germer dive into “Self-Compassion 101” while also exploring how they practice self-compassion on and off the couch. Diana also demonstrates an exercise she learned from Dr. Germer at a recent couples retreat. So, open your heart and take a listen!

Resources:

Test how self-compassionate you are!

Mindful Self-Compassion Program

Upcoming Workshops with Dr. Christopher Germer

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher Germer

The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Kristen Neff and Christopher Germer

About Dr. Christopher Germer:

Chris Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He teaches on the faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, both based in Cambridge, MA. He is a co-developer (with Kristin Neff) and popular teacher of the Mindful Self-Compassion program (which has been taught to over 50,000 people around the world), author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, co-author of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook (which is consistently the #3 book in Social work on Amazon since it’s release) and co-editor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy.His newest book, for professionals, Teaching the Mindful Self Compassion Program will be released in Summer 2019.

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Interested in becoming an emotional grown up? In this episode, Debbie talks with Dr. Lara Fielding, author of Mastering Adulthood: Go Beyond Adulting to Become an Emotional Grown-Up, about such topics as:

some of the challenges of young adulthood

helpful ways to think about thoughts, emotions, and behavior patterns

how to increase awareness and skillfulness to live a meaningful life

About Dr. Lara Fielding:

Dr. Lara Fielding is a Clinical Psychologist in California, specializing in the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. She studied the psychophysiology of stress and emotions at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Harvard; before getting her doctorate at Pepperdine University graduate school of education and psychology, where she is an adjunct professor.

Resources:

Dr. Fielding’s book Mastering Adulthood: Go Beyond Adulthood to Become an Emotional Grown-Up

Dr. Fielding’s website, Mindful-Mastery.com, where you’ll find videos that accompany the book.

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In this episode, best-selling author Greg McKeown talks with Yael about Essentialism, a systematic discipline designed to support making life decisions that help you to make your “highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.”

Join us for an inspirational conversation and learn:

Why it is important to distinguish the essential from the nonessential

How to identify what is most essential

Strategies to create a system that supports the disciplined pursuit of what is essential to you

How Greg walks individuals through the steps of Essentialism

About Greg McKeown

Greg is the author of the the best-selling book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. He is also afrequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, a sought after keynote speaker, a repeating guest on the Steve (Harvey) show, and his work on Essentialism is regularly written about in media (see Resources). Greg is also founder/CEO of McKeown, Inc., a strategy design center.

Resources

The Book: Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less, by Greg McKeownRecent piece in the New York Times featuring Essentialism: “Why you start things you’ll never finish”Article in Harvard Business Review by Greg McKeown: “To do things better, stop doing so much”Article in Harvard Business Review by Greg McKeown: “The unimportance of practically everything”Greg McKeown’s Website

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Are you ready to make a behavior change for 2019? Join us for a motivational episode with commitment expert, Dr. DJ Moran where we take committed action to make changes for our wellbeing.

Listen and learn:

Common internal obstacles to behavior changeHow to make mindfulness accessibleHow he used values to change his healthWhat is blocking Diana from her New Year’s resolution

About Dr. Moran

Dr. Daniel J. Moran is the founder and executive director of the MidAmerican Psychological Institute, and founder of Pickslyde Consulting. He co-authored ACT in Practice and Committed Action in Practice – two books using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people reduce suffering and improve quality of living. 

Dr. D.J. has appeared on The Learning Channel, Animal Planet, and the Oprah Winfrey Network discussing behavioral health concerns. He also received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Association for Behavior Analysis International. Dr. D.J. is a Recognized ACTrainer, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and the past president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, the worldwide Acceptance and Commitment Therapy organization.

Resources

Committed Action in Practice: A Clinician’s Guide to Assessing, Planning, and Supporting Change in Your Client by Dr. DJ Moran, Patricia Bach, and Sonja BattenContact Dr. DJ MoranUpcoming Trainings with Dr. DJ MoranACBS World Conference 2019

66. Helping People Change Using Motivational Interviewing With Dr. Nadine Mastroleo82. Clinician's Corner: Therapist Self-Doubt with Jim Lucas

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Happy New Year! Do you have a resolution to simplify your life and clear the clutter? Are you tired of being stressed out by too much stuff? In this episode, co-hosts Debbie and Diana explore:

How simplifying and slowing down can help you create a more meaningful life

Thoughts and emotions that may arise when you finally tackle that closet you’ve been avoiding

Why buying the next little gift shop trinket won’t provide you with lasting happiness

Helpful strategies from behavioral psychology that can help you declutter your home and simplify your life!

So take a listen if you could use some practical strategies and inspiration in your quest to simplify. We wish you a peaceful and meaningful 2019!

Resources for More Inspiration:

Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World by Brooke McAlary

The Slow Home Podcast

We have mixed feelings about the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. See if the KonMari method works for you!

New Minimalism: Decluttering and Design for Sustainable, Intentional Living by Cary Telander Fortin and Kyle Louise Quilici

Atomic Habits by James Clear

On Clutter and Stress:

The Clutter Culture (about a UCLA study of 32 families in LA documenting the clutter problem and a link between high cortisol (a stress response) and clutter among the women), and the book that came out of the study, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors.

How Clutter Affects Your Brain (and What You Can Do About It) in Life Hacker

Why Mess Causes Stress: 8 Reasons, 8 Remedies: The Mental Cost of Clutter in Psychology Today

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Please Enjoy This Loving-Kindness Meditation From Us At Psychologists Off The Clock. We Wish You Peace, Ease, And Health This Holiday Season.

-Diana, Debbie, and Yael

89. A Gift For You. Soothing Rhythm Breathing81. A Gift For You: 10 Minute Breathing Meditation80. Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics with Jeff Warren

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