Powerpoints and handouts files added where available. If you would like your materials to be added to this list, please email it to acbsstaff@contextualscience.org.

Pre-Conference Workshops 

Tuesday-Wednesday, July 24-25, 2018

Developmental interventions on the self and social behaviour of adolescents - Using DNA-v to develop flexibility, mindfulness and compassion
Louise Hayes
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Exploring a Process-Focused Approach to Understanding and Practicing Compassion Focused Therapy
Dennis Tirch, Laura Silberstein, Russell Kolts
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Using Metaphor in Training Psychological Flexibility
Niklas Törneke, Carmen Luciano, and Kelly Koerner
Törneke Slides
Koerner Slides

Conference Sessions

Thursday, July 26

3. A CBS Approach to Safety Planning and Repertoire Expansion with High Risk Patients
Jonathan Weinstein
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4. Mobilizing Behavioral Science to Address Climate Change
Tony Biglan, Magnus Johansson
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5. Bringing Values to Life in ACT: Moving from the conceptual to the experiential
Jenna LeJeune, Jason Luoma, and Tobias Lundgren
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6. Introducing and Integrating Cognitive Defusion Techniques in Therapy
John T. Blackledge
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9. Using ACT in the Treatment of More Complex Forms of Depression: Examples in Three Clinical Settings
Paper 1: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression with Comorbid Social Anxiety: Results From a Pilot Randomized Trial
Kristy Dalrymple, Emily Walsh, Lia Rosenstein, Mark Zimmerman
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10. Why 21st Century Leaders Often Feel In Over Their Heads and How Psychological Flexibility Can Help
Rachel Collis
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11. Recent theoretical and methodological advances in Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
Paper 3: Social Modeling as Derived Perspective Taking via Relational Triangulation
Paul Guinther
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13. Awareness, courage, and love: Clinical measurement, clinical analogue and clinical findings
Paper 2: Predictive Validity of Awareness, Courage, and Responsiveness (ACR) in a General Psychiatric Sample and Non-psychiatric Dyads
Adam Kuczynski and Jonathan W. Kanter
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16. Optimizing Well-being among Individuals with Appearance Concerns
Paper 1: Context, Connection, and Compassion: Theoretical Applications of ACT for People with Appearance Concerns
Staci Martin
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18. Functional Analytic Group Therapy: In-Vivo Healing In Community Context
Renee Hoekstra and Luc Vandenberghe
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19. The Marriage of ACT and ERP for OCD treatment: How to do it, when to do it, and checking if it works!
Patricia E. Zurita Ona and Brian Thompson
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20. The stance of the ACT therapist
Robyn D. Walser & Manuela O ́Connell
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21. How to have close relationships: An experiential primer
Jonathan Kanter
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22. ACT for Psychosis Recovery Groups: How to train and supervise practitioners and peer supporters to be mindful, valuing and effective facilitators
Eric Morris, Louise Johns
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24. Conceptual, empirical and pragmatic innovations in the contextual behavioural science of thriving with a long-term health condition
Paper 1: Exploring the impact of psychological flexibility on the relationship between fear of cancer recurrence and adjustment in cancer survivors
Kate Randell, David Gillanders, and Susie Porteous
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Paper 2: Why don't people do their treatments? A conceptual exploration of non-adherence in chronic illness using a contextual behavioural approach
Jennifer Kemp
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Paper 3: Helping Workers With Chronic Health Conditions: Results From An ACT Based Telephone Coaching Intervention
Dayna Lee-Baggley, Area Day, and Nicolle Vincent
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25. Increasing Stakeholder Commitment to Behavior Change: ACT for “Non-Adherence"
Michael Bordieri
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26. Exploring a past, present and future of broadening of behavioral horizons
Paper 3: Modeling ongoing acts-in-context from a contextual behavioral perspective: A network analysis approach
Adam M. Kuczynski and Jonathan W. Kanter
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27. An Experiential Introduction to Relational Frame Theory
Ryan Sharma
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28. Ecological Momentary Assessment as a CBS Tool: Empirical Applications of Ecological Momentary Assessment to Questions of Contextual Behavioral Science
Paper 1: An ecological momentary assessment (EMA) investigation of cognitive processes for responding to difficult thoughts
Jennifer Krafft and Michael E. Levin
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31. Advances in Relational Frame Theory Research of Applied Relevance
Paper 3: Assessing and Training Analogical Responding in Young Children
Elle Kirsten and Ian Stewart
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40. Bringing ACT for Psychosis into the “Real World”: Recent Developments in Dissemination and Implementation
Paper 1: Researching the Effectiveness of Acceptance-based Coping during Hospitalization: Initial Results from the REACH Project
Brandon A. Gaudiano, Carter Davis, Gary Epstein-Lubow, and Ivan W. Miller
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Paper 2: Affecting the psychiatric ward milieu using a combination of individual treatment and staff behavior change
Mårten Tyrberg, Per Carlbring, and Tobias Lundgren
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41. Behavioral Activation: A Third Wave Cousin on a Journey Across the World
Christopher R. Martell
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43. ACT processes and outcomes among high risk populations
Paper 1: Longitudinal Associations between Psychological Flexibility Processes and Suicidal Ideation
John Donahue, Rebecca Thompson, Katie Callahan
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44. Metaphor Co-Creation: ACT as Practiced in Japan
Paper 1: Co-creation of metaphor to observe and describe sufferings with curiosity - A case of a woman with fear of incontinence
Atsushi Seguchi
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Paper 2: Co-creating metaphor for exploring lost values and activities: A case of a woman who had major depression due to marital troubles
Yusuke Shudo
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Paper 3: Co-creating a metaphor for evoke curiosity about fear: A case of a woman with emetophobia
Takashi MITAMURA
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46. EFT: The science and soul of couple therapy
Sue Johnson
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Friday, July 27

50. Getting the Essentials in Place: Using a Structured BA Protocol to Gain Proficiency
Christopher R. Martell
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51. Children and Their Contexts
Chris McCurry and Sacha Rombouts
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52. The compassionate and flexible therapist
Rikke Kjelgaard
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53. Understanding Self As Context
Andrew J. D'Amico, John Armando, and Frank Masterpasqua
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54. ACT for Social Anxiety: An Evidence-based Group and Individual Approach
Nancy Kocovski and Jan Fleming
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55. Developing a Nurturing Society: Directions for CBS to Understand and Reduce Prejudice, Dehumanization, and Objectification
Benjamin Ramos, Anthony Biglan, Akihiko Masuda, Laura R. Silberstein-Tirch, Matthew D. Skinta, Matthieu Villatte, and lore dickey
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56. Examining the Impact on ACT Processes of ACT and Exposure-Based Treatments for OCD and PTSD
Paper 2: The Impact of ERP and ACT for OCD on ACT Processes: A Single Case Design Study
Brian Thompson
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57. Evoke, Reinforce, Repeat (Part 1): Learning a Plain Language Behavioral Perspective to Clinical Work
Matthew S. Boone, Emily K. Sandoz, Karen Kate Kellum
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58. A functional contextual approach to moral injury: Conceptualization, treatment, and implementation considerations
Paper 3: Utilizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to aid chaplains in addressing moral injury
Jason Nieuwsma, Jennifer Wortmann,  Rebecca Morris, Jaimie Lusk, Janet Hanson, Keith Meador
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59. Barriers and innovations in self-guided ACT interventions
Paper 2: Using mobile apps to tailor ACT skill training in-the-moment: Results from the ACT Daily app
Michael E. Levin, Jack Haeger,  Cynthia Navarro,  Rick Cruz, Ph.D.
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Paper 3: Development and pilot-testing of storytelling video self-help program based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for depression
Lisa A. Uebelacker, Brandon Gaudiano, Carter H. Davis, Ivan W. Miller
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62. Pratiquer l'ACT par le clown
Jean-Christophe Seznec
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64. Delivery of Brief, Group-Based ACT Interventions in Diverse Settings: Outcomes and Lessons Learned in Implementation
Paper 1: Responding to Traumatic Stress Post Hurricane María in Puerto Rico: Brief ACT-Informed Group Intervention with School Personnel
Rosaura Orengo-Aguayo
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Paper 3: How Much is Enough in Brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Treating Depressive Symptoms?
Emily B. Krosk
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67. The self in practice: A contextual behavioral science approach
Louise McHugh
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69. ACT for Emotion Efficacy: A Treatment Protocol for Emotion Dysregulation
Matthew McKay and Aprilia West
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72. Evoke, Reinforce, Repeat (Part 2): Learning a Plain Language Behavioral Perspective to Clinical Work
Matthew S. Boone, Emily K. Sandoz, Karen Kate Kellum
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74. ACT for Spiritual Development: Accept, Choose, Teach others
Hank Robb
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75. How RFT can make you smarter
Sarah Cassidy
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77. Using ACT to enhance performance and well-being
Paper: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a clinical performance anxiety treatment and enhancement program for musicians
David Juncos
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78. Shame, Stigma, and Stress: Barriers to Thriving for Gender and Sexual Minorities
Paper 2: Substance Use and Fear of Stigma Among Gender and Sexual Minority Individuals
Madeline Benz and Kathleen Palm Reed
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79. Intervenir de façon efficace avec une clientèle suicidaire en utilisant des techniques issues de la thérapie d'acceptation et d'engagement et de la thérapie dialectique comportementale
Marie-Eve Martel and Francis Lemay
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80. Scaffolding ACT and DBT for the Multi-Problem Client
Amy House and Sandra Georgescu
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81. Female, fierce and fabulous
Rikke Kjelgaard
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83. Get Out of Your Head and Into the Game: Teaching athletes the ACT Matrix and its use in the achievement of mindful, enhanced, sports performance
David Udelf
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84. It is time to discuss race and politics: Applying CBS to address social divisions
Paper 2: Facilitating racial harmony on college campuses: A randomized trial;
Jonathan W. Kanter and Monnica T. Williams
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86. Clinical Engagement with Gender Diverse Clients across the Gender Spectrum
lore m. dickey
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88. ACT for People with Pain: What We Still Have to Learn
Paper 2: A Mixed Methods ACT Intervention for Individuals with Chronic Pain from Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1): Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
Staci Martin, Taryn Allen, Kari Struemph, Mary Anne Tamula, Andrea Baldwin, Pamela Wolters, Brigitte Widemann
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Paper 3: Psychological Flexibility, Pain Characteristics, and Risk of Opioid Misuse in Noncancerous Chronic Pain Patients
Amanda Rhodes, Donald Marks, Jennifer Block-Lerner, Timothy Lomauro
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89. Empirically evaluating smartphone app technology effectiveness in delivering and evaluating ACT interventions
Symposium Intro Slides
Paper 1: Analyzing longitudinal user engagement data of an ACT smoking cessation app for those with serious mental illness to examine outcomes of psychological flexibility and smoking behaviors
Javier Rizo, Paige Palenski, Roger Vilardaga
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Paper 3: Examining a prototype mobile app for self-critical thoughts: A clinical component test of cognitive defusion and cognitive restructuring
Jennifer Krafft, Jack Haeger, Michael Levin, Woolee An, Michael Twohig
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90. Recent Research on Verbal Processes Involved in Components of ACT and RFT
Paper 1: Effects of Defusion and Deictic Frame Interactions on the Development of Self-As-Context in Individuals with Autism
Sebastián García-Zambrano
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91. The Zigs and Zags of Human Evolutionary History
Peter Turchin
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Saturday, July 28

96. SHAPE-ing competent therapists: Working effectively with emotion in clinical supervision
Eric Morris, Sonja Batten
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97. ACT: Developing exposure/acceptance practice for people with Chronic Pain
JoAnne Dahl
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98. The application of the ACT of Self-Forgiveness to adult experience of Adverse Childhood Events
Grant Dewar
Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ)
Handouts
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101. Contextual Behavioral Strategies for Helping Gender and Sexual Minority Clients Thrive
Aisling Leonard-Curtin and Matthew D. Skinta
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102. Innovation and evaluation in ACT training: Steps towards a science of dissemination
Paper 1: The perceived impact of an online third wave CBT training among postgraduate students and mental health professionals
Frédérick Dionne, Luc Bourrassa, and Nadia L'Espérance
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Paper 2: Development and initial validation of the Mindful Healthcare Scale - a new measure of psychological flexibility for helping professionals
Gillian Kidney, David Gillanders, and Lene Forrester
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Paper 3: ACT Training Lab - a blueprint for bespoke CPD events for ACT trainers and advanced practitioners
Graciela Rovner, Joseph Oliver, Jacqueline A-Tjak, Louise McHugh, and David Gillanders
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Paper 4: Skills of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) among novice therapists are associated with changes in depression symptoms in a brief ACT intervention
Katariina Keinonen, Heidi Kyllönen, Piia Astikainen, and Raimo Lappalainen
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104. Implications of Relational Frame Theory for Early Childhood Language Development
Jonathan Tarbox
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106. The impact of identity on thriving: Examining self-as-content in multiple contexts
Paper 1: What does it mean to consider yourself an“addict”?: The impact of identity on treatment-seeking behaviors among individuals withsubstance use problems
Madeline Benz, Kathleen Palm Reed, Lia Bishop
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108. ACT-matrice et Cancer
Marika Audet-Lapointe
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109. Mastering the Clinical Conversation with RFT
Matthieu Villatte, Claire-Marie Best, Fabian Olaz
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112. Superhero Therapy: An Interactive Quest Through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Janina L. Scarlet
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114. How is Prosocial evolving? New thoughts and perspectives in the light of experience working with the Prosocial model
Donna Read, Paul Atkins, David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes Ph.D.
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115. ACT in the workplace: understanding how ACT interventions improve employees' mental health
Paper 1: School teachers’ experiences of a workplace ACT intervention: A mixed methods study
Paul Flaxman, Ross McIntosh, Shannon Horan,  Jeff Salter,  Julia Yates
Paper 2: ACT in the workplace: Exploration of multiple processes of change
Paul Flaxman, Niguel Guenole, Joda Llloyd, Frank Bond
Paper 3: A randomized controlled comparison of worksite applications of ACT and mindfulness training: Investigating attentional and attitudinal mediators of change
Paul Flaxman, Vasiliki Christodoulou, Joe Oliver, Eric Morris, Nigel Guenole
Slides (all 3 papers are included)

116. Ignite Session
1. The Mindfulness Triangle - The simplest way of teaching the "unteachable" - Reuben Lowe - Slides
2. The Matrix for Sports Performance - Sebastian G. Kaplan, Laura Sudano - Slides
3. Will the Real ___ Please Stand Up? Getting into the ACT of Impostor Phenomenon - Nelly A. Dixon - Slides
4. Got Gender? Improving trans awareness and competence for mental health providers by expanding psychological flexibility - C. Virginia O'Hayer, Emily J. Marino - Slides
5. ACT with Chronic Illnesses- C. Virginia O'Hayer, Caitlin O’Loughlin, Reina Aikens, David Bennett - Slides
6. Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want: ACT-ing from the Heart with Eating Disorders - Margaret K. Notar - Slides
7. Pain interference and opioid use are lower after major surgery in patients receiving Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Clinical practice-based outcomes from the Toronto General Hospital Transitional Pain Service - Muhammad Abid Azam, Aliza Z. Weinrib, Janice Montbriand, Lindsay C. Burns, Joel Katz - Slides
8. Experiential Avoidance and Problematic Health Behavior - Anne I. Roche - Slides
9. Why Laugh? Exploring the Connections Between Humor and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Lisa DeHahn Jade - Slides
10. My miscarriages as a therapist: Shame, healing and serendipity - Giovanni K. Pergher - Slides
11. The Transition from Clinician to Supervisor - Annette Dufresne - Slides
12. Psychologists' attitudes toward money: Use of cognitive behavioral theory to explain how we perpetuate our financial abuse - Lori Eickleberry, Laurel Marco - Slides

117. Empirical investigations of experiential avoidance and psychological well-being
Paper 3: A functional understanding of alcohol misuse: Quantifying the role of experiential avoidance, maladaptive coping and impulse control processes
Brian Pennie, Rob Whelan
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121. From individual to systemic behavior change: What Behavior Analysis and Pro-sociality can bring to ACT
Paper 2: Developing Care Pathways for Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Seeing Common Problems as Problems of Commons
Gustaf Waxegard, Hans Thulesius
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122. Why philosophy matters: Reconnecting with our roots and branching out
Paper 2: The Other Contextualism: Exploring the Value of Descriptive Contextualist Approaches in Research and Practice
Donald R. Marks
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Paper 3: Collaborating Across Philosophical Worldviews
Sean Wright
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123. Projets cliniques et de recherche novateurs en francophonie
Paper 1: Prise en charge Psychologique de la troisième vague des TCC du Trouble de la Personnalité Borderline
Keltoum Belmihoub
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Paper 4: Traiter le trouble d'anxiété généralisée par la thérapie d'acceptation et d'engagement
Sylvie Rousseau
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125. Perfectionism from a contextual perspective: Supporting healthy striving and flexible responding
Jennifer Kemp and Lanaya L. Ethington
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126. Therapy with Our Hearts Wide Open: Love and Compassion in FAP and CFT
Barbara Kohlenberg and Russell Kolts
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127. Criticisms of Contextual Behavioral Science: Inside and Out
Brandon A. Gaudiano, Jacqueline A-Tjak, Jonathan B. Bricker, Steven C. Hayes, Kelly Koerner
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129. Swipe Right: Using the Matrix to Enhance Teen and Family Work
Sheri Turrell,Chris McCurry, Mary Bell, and Erin Lipsitt
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131. Improving trans awareness and competence for mental health providers by expanding psychological flexibility: An experiential workshop
C. Virginia O'Hayer and Emily J. Marino
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134. Using technology in creative ways to assess and improve ACT interventions
Paper 3: Evaluation of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) web-based mental health promotion program for university students
Shelley Viskovich and Kenneth I. Pakenham
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135. Mindfulness and self-compassion as key processes in mediating life outcomes
Paper 1: Childhood neglect and adult relatedness: The indirect effect of being mindful
Éliane Dussault, Noémie Bigras, and Natacha Godbout
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136. Seeing through the eyes of others: How can ACT reduce prejudice and harmful behaviors?
Paper 1: How can ACT prevent racism and prejudice?
JoAnne Dahl
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137. Thriving inside the Dynamics of a Contextual Behavioral Science: RFT, Clinical and Non-Clinical Foundations
Giovambattista "Nanni" Presti
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Sunday, July 29

138. Empowering Clients to Thrive Despite Their Desire for Death: A Workshop on ACT for Suicide Prevention
Sean M. Barnes, Debbie Sorensen, Geoffrey Smith, Lauren M. Borges, Robyn D. Walser
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139. The Nuts and Bolts of Exposure-Based Work in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
John Forsyth, Jamie Forsyth
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140. ACT in Groups
M. Joann Wright, Darrah Westrup
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144. Whose Therapy is it Anyway?: Working with gender and sexual minority youth and their families
Melissa Farrell
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147. When positive emotions function in unexpected ways: A transdiagnostic treatment consideration
Paper 3: Seeking Relief from Emotional Pleasure: Using Thematic Analysis to Explore the Role of Positive Emotions in Self-Reported Reasons for Relapsing to Drugs and Alcohol in Individuals with Substance Use Disorders
Jessica Armstrong
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150. L'ACT en counseling de carrière
Colette Charpentier, Michel Bleau, Nadia Richard
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151. How Do We ACT in Asia? - The Contextualization of ACT in Eastern Asian Culture
Paper 3: A systematic review of ACT treatment research in South Korea
Woolee An, Eric Lee, Michael P. Twohig, Michael E. Levin
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152. "I’ll do it later": Overcoming procrastination in college students with ACT
Frédérick Dionne
Worksheet
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154. How can CBS-based interventions decrease affective polarization in political contexts?
Ebba Karlsson, Michael Levin, Dennis Tirch, Tony Biglan, Magnus Johansson
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157. ACT and CBS as solutions to problematic eating behaviors
Paper 2: Psychometric Properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for Weight-Related Difficulties (AAQW) in Overweight and Obese Veterans
Cara Dochat
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Paper 4: Problematic health behaviors: Experiential avoidance as a common function
Anne I. Roche and Emily B. Kroska
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158. Aging Changes Things: Adapting ACT to Meet the Needs of an Aging Population
Pamela Steadman-Wood
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