Focused ACT Resources

Welcome to the LAMIC Resource page for Focused Acceptance Commitment Therapy (FACT). FACT is a brief therapy that uses principles of ACT in a highly condensed version.

The strategies employed in FACT are delivered in fewer sessions when compared to traditional psychotherapies without compromising on the outcome. FACT is very useful in settings where time and resource-limitations are a limiting factor, it has been used in many different medical settings around the world.

This page is aimed at practitioners from Low-and-Middle-Income-Countries (LAMIC) who are new to FACT and would like to learn more and use it in their community. It is our hope that this page supports your own committed action to learn and makes the content more accessible for you.

You will need to login as a member to see many of the linked resources, but some are available freely to the public (free resources are designated by 3 asterisks***). If you are interested in ACBS Membership you will find more information, including our values-based dues here. ACBS offers a number of membership scholarships - you can apply for a scholarship here.

The following resources will aid you in learning more about FACT:

Books

• Strosahl, K., Robinson, P., & Gustavsson, T. (2012). Brief interventions for radical change: Principles and practice of focused acceptance and commitment therapy. New Harbinger Publications.***

Online courses
Several private providers run online courses and discounts are available for colleagues from LAMIC.

• Focused ACT for Brief Interventions by Kirk Strosahl and Patti Robinson. 6 weeks online course with evergreen access after enrolment. Some discount available for LAMIC, you would need to contact Patti Robinson for this.
• ACT as a brief intervention by Russ Harris. 6 weeks online course. Free courses are available for LAMIC participants, contact the chair of DNC for access.

Videos
There are only a couple of video presentations of FACT for the beginner practitioner. We are in the process of creating more, so please check this site regularly.

• ACT as a Brief Intervention: Clinical Training Workshop with Kirk Strosahl (Workshop Recording); 2011.
• FACT by Bruce Arroll (Video playlist); last uploaded 2017.***
• FACT by David Bauman (Video playlist); ongoing videos.***

Articles
As FACT is relatively new, the research base is still growing. Here are a couple of quality articles as a starting point.

• Monia Barreto, et al. (2019). A Single-Session of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health-Related behavior change: An Open Trial with a nonconcurrent matched comparison group. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.06.003
• Heidi Maria Kyllönen, et al. (2018). A brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention for depression: a randomized controlled trial with 3-year follow-up for the intervention group. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.08.009