Introduction to ACT for Anxiety, July 25
Thanks to all those who attended the above workshop for your participation and feedback.
Here are electronic copies of the handouts, excluding ones that are copyright, and of the Keynote slides.
ACT ADVISOR Form (PDF) This is the reverse of the above form.
Life Manual by Kevin Polk To find out more about Kevin’s programs and resources, go to www.drkevinpolk.com.
Guide for an initial ACT session (PDF)
Defusion and Acceptance Exercises (PDF) This includes 6 Defusion and 3 Acceptance exercises.
Simple ACT Case Formulation (PDF)
Speaker Notes of presentation (PDF) (5.6Mb) If you want a copy of the Keynote (Mac users) or Powerpoint of this presentation, email me. It is fairly large though – about 25Mb – so to save bandwidth I haven’t posted it here.
For participants in the Crisis Support Services introduction to ACT workshop on July 16, here are the Brief Therapy Strategies (RTF file, opens in Word) that I mentioned may be useful for practitioners working in time-limited modes. These strategies were developed by Kirk Strosahl.
Future workshops
I am currently negotiating with the College to run a more skill-focussed workshop later in the year. My aim is that this will happen after the 3rd Australia and New Zealand ACT Conference which takes place at the University of Melbourne from November 13-15.
If you wish to add comments on Saturday’s workshop, or suggestions for what you’d like included in the next workshop, please either add a comment below, or use this form.
Comments
Comment from Julian McNally
Time: July 27, 2009, 11:30 pm
I will seek permission to upload the “Inflexahex” form (first handout) and whether or not it’s granted, I’ll upload the reverse side (“Hexaflex”) as soon as I find my copy of it.
Comment from Alison Fonseca
Time: August 4, 2009, 4:49 am
Hi Julian, I attending the training on July 25. Found it useful and interesting. You mentioned the work by Jacobs (???), a stuy or meta analysis of CBT or components thereof. I believe you were making the point about cognitve therapy accounting for less lasting changes in depressed clients vs. behavioural therapies. Do you have the details of this work/studies. I hope I’ve given you sufficient info to be able to pass it on. regards Alison
Comment from Julian McNally
Time: August 4, 2009, 2:03 pm
Hi Alison.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Neil Jacobson contributed so much to the field of psychotherapy research, that the journal Prevention & Treatment produced an issue in his honour: http://journals.apa.org/prevention/volume3/toc-jun02-00.html
If you can get a hard copy of that issue of the journal it has a reprint of the original article:
Jacobson, N. S., Dobson, K. S., Truax, P. A., Addis, M. E., Koerner, K., Gollan, J. K., Gortner, E., & Prince, S. E. (1996). A component analysis of cognitive-behavioral treatment for depression. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 295–304.
The original results have been replicated a number of times since. For example:
J Consult Clin Psychol. 2006 Aug;74(4):658-70.
Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.
Dimidjian S, Hollon SD, Dobson KS, Schmaling KB, Kohlenberg RJ, Addis ME, Gallop R, McGlinchey JB, Markley DK, Gollan JK, Atkins DC, Dunner DL, Jacobson NS.
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