Trainer Pages (for trainees)
Trainer Pages (for trainees)Available pages for Trainers appear below. Pages are created and maintained by trainers for their trainees. They often contain general information as well as available training materials.
Benjamin Schoendorff's training page - Page de formateur ACT
Benjamin Schoendorff's training page - Page de formateur ACTWelcome to my training page!
You will find on this page training documents in English covering my work in several countries: various worksheets and relevant articles.
On the child pages to this page, you will find documents in various languages (French, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish).
In order to see these documents appear at the bottom of this page and to be able to download them, you have to be a member of ACBS. To join ACBS, click here!
Warm regards,
Benjamin Schoendorff
Pour les documents relatifs à mes ateliers québécois cliquez ici.
Pour les documents relatifs à mes ateliers français (France, Suisse, Belgique) cliquez ici.
For Swedish worshop documents click here.
Para Brasileo workshop documentos, cliquar aqui.
Para documentos en español, haga clic aquí.
In addition to the articles that you can download directly from this page, check out the following pieces available on the ACBS site by clicking on the links below:
Ruiz review of ACT 2010. Comprehensive article analyzing the general empirical evidence concerning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), both in terms of clinical trials and in terms of process studies.
FACT: The utility of an integration of functional analytic psychotherapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to alleviate human suffering. Callaghan, Gregg, Marx, Kohlenberg & Gifford, (2004). This article outlines the areas of convergence between ACT and FAP as well as the differences.
Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to empower the therapeutic relationship, Pierson & Hayes (2007). This chapter outlines the ACT model of the therapeutic relationship and invites clinicians to concentrate on the ACT processes as they appear in the therapy room and the therapeutic relationship.
Mindfulness, values, and the therapeutic relationship in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Wilson & Sandoz, (2008). In S. F. Hick & T. Bein (Eds.), Mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship. New York: Guilford Press.
A Contextual Behavioral Approach to the Role of Emotion in Psychotherapy Supervision, Batten & Santanello (2009). Great article discussing how emotion processing in supervision 'This paper provides a contextual behavioral rationale for including a focus on emotion in supervision, with a four-phase model for shaping early trainees’ ability to use their emotional reactions to facilitate therapy in a coherent manner."
The role of emotion in psychotherapy supervision: A contextual behavioral analysis. Batten & Follette (2000)
Selective bibliography:
ACT:
Batten, S. (2011) The essentials of ACT. Short and to the point, this little book packs an unusual punch. It's all there in clear and concise prose. Highly recommended.
Hayes, S.C, Strosahl, K.D., & Wilson, K.G. (2012). Acceptance and commitment therapy: The process and practice of mindful change (2nd edition). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Psychological Flexibility Training (PFT): Flexing Your Mind along with Your Muscles [Kindle Edition] Buy it on amazon (only $4,99!)
Wilson, K. G., & DuFrene, T. (2009). Mindfulness for Two: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Mindfulness in Psychotherapy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
Harris, R. (2009). ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger.
Strosahl, K., Robinson, P., & Gustavsson, T. Brief Interventions for Radical Change: Principles and Practice of Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. A great clinician-aimed book brimming with clinical tips and handy workarounds the most common clinical difficulties. It will supercharge your ACT work.
Schoendorff, B., Grand, J., & Bolduc, M-F (2011). La thérapie d'acceptation et d'engagement, guide clinique. Brussels: De Boeck. This is the book we wrote around the matrix and integrating ACT and FAP. In simple language it takes you on a tour of how to do therapy using ACT, FAP and the matrix. It covers the overal ACT model, therapist tools, intake sessions, case conceptualisation and a thorough rund down of the ACT processes and how to enhance your process work with the relationship and the matrix. It concludes on two appendices, a theoretical one ranging from basic behavioral principles to RFT and an exposition of FAP rules and how to apply them to ACT processes. Richly illustrated with cartoons, clinical vignettes and a wealth of new and more traditional ACT exercices, we think it's a very good book and would love to see it translated in more languages as there is no other book like it right now. Buy it on amazon.ca.
FAP:
Tsai, M., Kohlenberg, R.J., Kanter, J., Kohlenberg, B., Follette, W., & Callaghan, G. (2008). A guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, courage, love and behaviorism. New York: Springer. Buy it on amazon.com.
Kohlenberg, R. J., & Tsai, M. (1991). Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: A guide for creating intense and curative therapeutic relationships. New York: Plenum. Buy it on amazon.com.
Tsai, Kohlenberg, Kanter, Hlman, Loudon (2012) Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features. Buy it on amazon.com.
RFT:
Törneke, N. (2010). Learning RFT: An introduction to relational frame theory and its clinical applications. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
Clinical Behavior Analysis:
Ramnero, J., & Törneke, N. (2008). ABCs of human behavior: Behavioral principles for the practicing clinician. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger & Reno, NV: Context Press.
Documentos de talleres en español
Documentos de talleres en españolEn esta página encontrarás documentos y herramientas de formación clínica en español, tambien formularios de los talleres que he dado en español, así como las hojas de trabajo del cliente y formularios puente. Muchas gracias a Paula Qunitero y Juan Pablo Colletti para traducciones.
A continuación podes leer una entrevista que me hizo mi amiga Paula Quintero, en Buenos Aires. Para ver los documentos y poder descargarlos, tienes que ser un miembro ACBS y loguearte.
Espero que lo disfrutes y no dudes en dejar comentarios en esta página.
Encuentro con un Terapeuta: Entrevista con Benjamín Schoendorff (realizada por Lic. Paula José Quintero)
1) ¿Qué fue lo que te decidió a estudiar psicología y por qué has elegido esa orientación en particular?
Yo llegué tarde a la psicología. Mi trayectoria personal empezó en las finanzas, luego de haber realizado estudios en filosofía, política y economía. Luego de una crisis personal, pasé 10 años de mi vida produciendo música techno antes de elegir enfrentar mi “dragón personal” de adicción a las drogas a través de la aceptación y de la acción comprometida. Y a partir de ahí decidí volver a la universidad para estudiar psicología y entrenarme como terapeuta cognitivo-conductual. Mi interés desde tiempo atrás por el mindfulness y mi compromiso con la ciencia pronto me guió hacia ACT (Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso) y me convertí en uno de los pioneros de ACT en Francia, escribiendo el primer libro de ACT de auto-ayuda en francés en 2009. La Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso “le habla” a mi experiencia personal más profunda y satisface mi compromiso con las prácticas basadas en la evidencia. Más tarde me encontré con FAP (Terapia Analítico-Funcional); FAP realmente me ayudó a entender la importancia de las dimensiones interpersonales y progresé de manera asombrosa en mis relaciones terapéuticas con mis clientes y en mis relaciones de la vida cotidiana.
2) ¿En qué se diferencia tu técnica y la teoría que te guía de la psicoterapia convencional? ¿Qué hace que ACT sea única?
Desde mi punto de vista, hay tres elementos que hacen que ACT sea única. Primero, pone el foco de atención en el momento presente adaptando de manera flexible las técnicas del mindfulness a la mayoría de las poblaciones clínicas. Segundo, ofrece una forma novedosa para lidiar con experiencias privadas indeseadas: haciendo lugar a emociones y sensaciones incómodas y dolorosas (aceptación) y distanciándonos de los pensamientos que nos “atrapan” a través de la defusión. Tercero, hay un foco en valores y en utilizar lo que es más importante para la persona para motivar y reforzar la activación conductual y el cambio. Estos tres elementos convierten a ACT en una forma más humanística y existencial de terapia cognitivo-conductual, lo que representa en gran medida su atractivo para terapeutas y clientes. Respecto a la ciencia, ACT mantiene un alto compromiso con basar la práctica clínica en estudios empíricos, principios básicos e investigación experimental y en el desarrollo de la Teoría de los Marcos Relacionales, la cual constituye un paso más allá del análisis de la conducta verbal de Skinner en 1957 dando cuenta de manera novedosa de los procesos verbales respaldándose en la investigación experimental básica.
3) ¿Cuál es el mayor mito acerca de la psicoterapia?
¡Oh, esa es una elección difícil de hacer! ¡Hay tantos! Si tengo que elegir uno diría: la idea de que uno tiene que encontrar la causa de raíz de sus problemas en su historia personal antes de lograr avanzar. ACT nos muestra que conectándonos con nuestros valores y con acciones que nos llevan hacia lo que es importante, podemos recuperar una vida rica y satisfactoria, aún cuando la gran pregunta del “¿Por qué?” permanezca sin responderse.
4) ¿Cuál es la parte más difícil y desafiante de ser psicoterapeuta? ¿Y la más gratificante?
Lo que resulta un desafío para mí como terapeuta es mantenerme flexible en todo momento y constantemente volver a la experiencia del cliente más que a mis propias ideas o teorías. La parte más gratificante es ver a mis clientes florecer una vez que han empezado a involucrarse en conductas que los acercan a lo que es importante para ellos en la vida.
5) ¿Cuál parece ser el obstáculo más grande para los clientes en psicoterapia?
Eso depende de cada cliente, pero diría que un obstáculo común es que los clientes están más acostumbrados a escuchar lo que les dice su mente en lugar de lo que les muestra su experiencia (lo que en ACT llamamos “defusión cognitiva”). Esto significa que ellos quedan frecuentemente atrapados en estrategias que no funcionan para cambiar cómo piensan o sienten. Otro gran obstáculo es el impacto que tiene su propia lucha privada contra lo que sienten, en sus propias relaciones interpersonales, incluída la relación terapéutica. Por lo tanto el terapeuta tiene que permanecer atento de no fusionarse con lo que el cliente dice y también prestar mucha atención a las dimensiones interpersonales de la lucha del cliente, a medida que aparecen en la relación terapéutica.
6) En tu opinión: ¿Cuáles son las cualidades más importantes de un psicoterapeuta?
Flexibilidad, autenticidad, compasión y la habilidad de conectar con el cliente tratando de no quedar atrapado en el contenido de las historias que limitan el comportamiento valioso del cliente. Y también la disposición a mostrarse vulnerable.
7) ¿Qué es lo que primariamente facilita el cambio terapéutico? ¿Cuál crees que es la intervención más poderosa de ACT para generar cambio?
De nuevo: depende. Desde el punto de vista de ACT, el aumento de la flexibilidad, la habilidad de sostener los pensamientos con liviandad y actuar al servicio de valores es la clave. De modo que, en cualquier momento dado, la intervención más poderosa será aquella que mejor promueva flexibilidad en ese momento particular. En general encuentro que referir al cliente al diagrama de la Matrix (1) puede constituir una intervención poderosa en tanto que ayuda al cliente a notar si está atrapado en la lucha contra su sufrimiento o se está acercando hacia lo que es importante para él, de una manera que es una intervención que minimiza la interferencia del terapeuta y así maximiza el aprendizaje del cliente.
8) Has creado un enfoque muy interesante integrando intervenciones de ACT y de FAP. ¿De qué manera crees que FAP puede mejorar las intervenciones de ACT y viceversa?
ACT y FAP comparten las mismas raíces filosóficas e históricas (ambas se desarrollan dentro del contextualismo funcional). ACT es un gran modelo de cómo interactuamos con nuestras experiencias privadas y cómo nuestros modos de interacción pueden, en ciertos contextos, influenciar nuestra conducta. En términos generales, el modo en que interactuamos con las experiencias privadas puede o bien empujarnos a actuar para cambiar esa experiencia – alejarnos de ella- o bien inspirarnos a actuar en la dirección de nuestros valores vitales –acercarse a lo que es importante-. ACT se basa en la Teoría de los Marco Relacionales, un elegante modelo de cómo estos procesos son el resultado del funcionamiento normal de la inteligencia verbal. Así pues ACT es en gran medida una terapia enfocada en los procesos intrapersonales. Como tal, es un modelo muy poderoso. Por momentos, sin embargo, algunas intervenciones de ACT pueden sentirse como invalidantes por parte del cliente y enviar tanto al terapeuta como al cliente de nuevo “a sus mentes”. FAP, por el otro lado, se focaliza en la relación y en reforzar en el momento presente el comportamiento relacional más operativo. De manera que FAP se focaliza en los procesos interpersonales. Ahora bien, ambos enfoques consideran que el modo en que interactuamos con nuestra experiencia interna y con otras personas, fue aprendido a través de interacciones interpersonales. De modo que al integrar herramientas de FAP a la terapia ACT, podemos usar mejor la relación como un contexto social en el cual aprender ambos, es decir, un modo más útil de interactuar con nuestras experiencias internas y con los otros. Además, prestar atención a los efectos del comportamiento del terapeuta en el cliente y viceversa, como sugiere FAP, ayuda a la terapia a permanecer en “contacto con la tierra” y el cliente siente que se encuentran en el núcleo del trabajo más que en la teoría del terapeuta.
9) Si hubiese una cosa que desearías que tus clientes sepan acerca de la psicoterapia o de la enfermedad mental ¿Cuál sería?
Que ellos no están “rotos” o defectuosos, que no hay nada que tenga que ser añadido o removido de ellos antes de que puedan tener una vida rica y significativa. También me encantaría que sepan que la terapia se trata de ayudarlos a acercarse a la vida que quieren a través de sus propias acciones más que tratarse de “deshacerse de” o de interpretar sus síntomas.
10) Hoy en día la depresión genera mucha preocupación; algunos incluso hablan de una “epidemia”. ¿Qué factores (sociales y psicológicos) crees que están influenciando la actual prevalencia de la depresión?
Tengo la sensación de que los factores que más están ejerciendo influencia sobre ésto son sociales y culturales. En el plano social, no puedo evitar pensar que anteponer las ganancias por sobre las personas tiene un impacto directo sobre la salud mental. La gente siente que no tiene control sobre su vida cuando son objeto de fuerzas económicas sin rostro que son presentadas como realidades insuperables más que como elecciones políticas. También creo que la cultura del “sentirse bien” tiene mucho por lo que responder. Somos constantemente bombardeados con mensajes que dicen que tenemos que sentirnos bien para vivir bien. Empezamos a comparar nuestra experiencia interna con lo que los otros muestran para el afuera y encontramos que estamos “deseando”. ACT y FAP pueden ayudar al demostrarnos que podemos experimentar eso al “actuar bien”, es decir, en línea con nuestros valores de manera efectiva; nos podemos mover hacia vidas más significativas, incluso cuando habrá días en que nos sintamos bien y días en que nos sintamos no tan bien.
11) ¿Cuál de los libros que has leído recientemente sobre salud mental, psicología o psicoterapia te pareció muy bueno?
Como era de esperar, los dos libros que más valoro como terapeuta son: el libro original de ACT y, más aún, la versión revisada de 2011. También recomiendo, sin dudas, el libro original de FAP (1991) y la Guía Clínica de FAP (2008). Estos libros son la piedra angular de mi práctica clínica. Y un libro que estoy leyendo en este momento y que recomendaría es “Intervenciones Breves para el Cambio Radical” de Strosahl, Robinson y Gustavsson (2012), que es un libro acerca de intervenciones breves de ACT escrito por tres clínicos increíbles.
12) ¿Cual crees que es la investigación más emocionante que se está realizando en este momento en el campo del contextualismo funcional?
Estoy entusiasmado con la investigación en las fronteras de la Teoría de los Marcos Relacionales (TMR): sus aplicaciones en el campo del autismo para ayudar a niños autistas a desarrollar un comando del lenguaje más flexible, sus aplicaciones en el aumento del desempeño intelectual y, finalmente, sus aplicaciones en el campo de la investigación de la cognición implícita. Si TMR da una cuenta viable de la cognición humana, tiene que tener aplicaciones más allá de psicoterapia clínica. Es en estos dominios así como también a través de ACT, que la TMR demostrará su utilidad para el campo más amplio de la psicología. Respecto a investigación clínica, estoy particularmente interesado en los estudios centrados en los procesos. No es suficiente saber que la Terapia A y la Terapia B son efectivas. Quiero saber qué procesos están involucrados para que podamos refinar una Terapia C que focalice directamente los procesos clínicos significativos. Muchos investigadores en ACT y FAP comparten esta perspectiva de modo que podemos esperar de nuestra comunidad de investigación algunos hallazgos interesantes en el futuro cercano.
13) ¿Cuál es el mejor consejo que puedes ofrecer a nuestros lectores sobre cómo llevar adelante una vida significativa?
Simplemente notar, observar en el momento presente si lo que haces está al servicio de orientarte hacia lo que es importante para ti o al servicio de alejarte de aquello que no quieres pensar o sentir.
(1) La Matrix, creada por Kevin Polk, es un diagrama sencillo para trabajar sobre los 6 principios de ACT para aumentar la flexibilidad psicológica.
Bibliographia
Schoendorff, B., Grand, J., & Bolduc, M-F (2011). La thérapie d'acceptation et d'engagement, guide clinique. Brussels: De Boeck. Este es el libro que escribimos en torno a la matriz, integrando ACT y FAP. En un lenguaje simple, te lleva por un tour sobre como usar ACT, FAP y la Matrix. El libro hace un recorrido por el modelo ACT, herramientas para el terapeuta, sesiones de admisión, conceptualización de casos, y un completo recorrido por los procesos de ACT y como mejorar tus procesos de trabajo con la relación terapéutica y la Matrix. Incluye dos apéndices, uno teórico, que va desde los principios conductuales básicos hasta RFT y otro que expone las reglas de FAP y como aplicarlas en el marco de los procesos de ACT. Ricamente ilustrado con caricaturas, viñetas clínicas y enriquecido con nuevos y los tradicionales ejercicios de ACT. Pensamos que es un muy buen libro y nos encantaría traducirlo en tantos idiomas como ningún libro ha sido hasta ahora.
Documentos de treinamento em português
Documentos de treinamento em portuguêsVocê vai encontrar nesta página os documentos do workshop en Portuges (Brasil). Obrigado a Michaele Saban e Karen Vogel para traduções.
Para ver os documentos e baixá-los, você precisa ser um membro da ACBS e ser registrado dentro
You will find on this page the workshop documents.
To see the documents and download them, you need to be a member of ACBS and be logged in
Documents de formation Québec (format lettre)
Documents de formation Québec (format lettre)Vous trouverez sur cette page divers documents relatifs aux ateliers ACT-FAP donnés au Québec en 2011-2012 seul ou avec Marie-France Bolduc.
Vous pouvez aussi téléchargez divers articles et documents en anglais sur ma page de formation anglophone, ici.
En adhérant à l'ACBS (cotisation basée sur la valeur que vous donnez à l'association à partir d'un minimum de US$15), vous pourrez accéder librement aux documents ci-dessous (diapos de l'atelier, fiches et échelles cliniques et documents supplémentaires) et les télécharger au format pdf. NB: Ces documents n'apparaitront que si vous êtes membre et 'logged in'.
En adhérant à l'ACBS (cotisation basée sur la valeur que vous donnez à l'association à partir d'un minimum de USD$15), vous pourrez accéder librement aux documents ci-dessous (diapos de l'atelier, fiches et échelles cliniques et documents supplémentaires) et les télécharger au format pdf. NB: Ces documents n'apparaitront que si vous êtes membre et 'logged in'.
L'ACBS compte à ce jour près de 6000 membres dans le monde entier et représente une communauté unique qui promeut la recherche et la dissémination de l'ACT, la Théorie des Cadres Relationnels, et, plus largement, la science comportementale contextuelle. Nous espérons que vous choisirez de rejoindre l'ACBS ainsi que sa branche francophone, l'AFSCC. Pour ce faire, une fois membre de l'ACBS, il vous suffit d'envoyer un courriel à psychologiecontextuelle@gmail.com. L'AFSCC, née en 2011 compte à ce jour près de 150 membres. L'adhésion est gratuite. Une fois membre de l'ACBS, vous aurez accès à la quasi-totalité des articles scientifiques publiés sur l'ACT et la TCR, à des chapitres de livres, des présentations powerpoint, des protocoles de traitement, des vidéos et une abondance d'outils cliniques. Si vous ne désirez pas encore, rejoindre l'ACBS, vous pouvez m'écrire par courriel pour que je vous communique les documents qui, sur cette page, ne sont disponibles qu'aux membres de l'ACBS.
Vous trouverez aussi des documents et illustrations libres de droits pour usage non commercial sur le site https://act-afscc.org/ où vous pourrez également être informé de nos prochaines formations et vous inscrire pour être référencé en tant que thérapeute et/ou superviseur(e) ACT francophone.
Documents de formation en français (format A4)
Documents de formation en français (format A4)Vous trouverez sur cette page divers documents relatifs aux ateliers ACT-FAP donnés en France, Suisse et Belgique par moi-même ou avec Jana Grand ou Egide Altenloh.
Vous pouvez aussi téléchargez divers articles et documents en anglais sur ma page de formation anglophone, ici.
En adhérant à l'ACBS (cotisation basée sur la valeur que vous donnez à l'association à partir d'un minimum de US$15), vous pourrez accéder librement aux documents ci-dessous (diapos de l'atelier, fiches et échelles cliniques et documents supplémentaires) et les télécharger au format pdf. NB: Ces documents n'apparaitront que si vous êtes membre et 'logged in'.
L'ACBS compte à ce jour près de 6000 membres dans le monde entier et représente une communauté unique qui promeut la recherche et la dissémination de l'ACT, la Théorie des Cadres Relationnels, et, plus largement, la science comportementale contextuelle. Nous espérons que vous choisirez de rejoindre l'ACBS ainsi que sa branche francophone, l'AFSCC. Pour ce faire, une fois membre de l'ACBS, il vous suffit d'envoyer un courriel à psychologiecontextuelle@gmail.com. L'AFSCC, née en 2011 compte à ce jour près de 150 membres. L'adhésion est gratuite. Une fois membre de l'ACBS, vous aurez accès à la quasi-totalité des articles scientifiques publiés sur l'ACT et la TCR, à des chapitres de livres, des présentations powerpoint, des protocoles de traitement, des vidéos et une abondance d'outils cliniques. Si vous ne désirez pas encore, rejoindre l'ACBS, vous pouvez m'écrire par courriel pour que je vous communique les documents qui, sur cette page, ne sont disponibles qu'aux membres de l'ACBS.
Vous trouverez aussi des documents et illustrations libres de droits pour usage non commercial sur le site https://act-afscc.org/ où vous pourrez également être informé de nos prochaines formations et vous inscrire pour être référencé en tant que thérapeute et/ou superviseur(e) ACT francophone.
Training documents in Swedish
Training documents in SwedishBelow you will find over 20 documents: handouts from the workshop in powerpoint and pdf format; articles about FAP, integrating ACT and FAP, ACT and the therapeutic relationship; FAP questionnaires; ACT-FAP session bridging sessions; client matrix forms and worksheets, and more. This is only a sample of the hundreds of articles, documents, powerpoints, videos that you have free access to and can dowload as an ACBS member. Slet Gustavsson att tacka för översättningarna.
If you are not yet ready to join ACBS and attended the workshop, please email me and I'll send you the documents.
ALso be sure you visit http://functionalanalyticpsychotherapy.com/
Where you'll find more information about FAP and a treasure-trove of downloadable articles and tools for therapists.
Selected FAP bibliography:
Kohlenberg, B.S. & Callaghan, G.M. (2010). FAP and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) : Similarities, Divergence, and Integration, in J. Kanter, M. Tsai & R.J. Kohlenberg (Eds.). The practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, New York : Springer.
Kohlenberg, R.J. & Tsai, M. (1991). Functional Analytic Psychotherapy : A guide for creating intense and curative therapeutic relationships, New York : Plenum.
Tsai, M., Kohlenberg, R.J., Kanter, J., Kohlenberg, B., Follette, W., & Callaghan, G. (2008). A guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, courage, love and behaviorism. New York: Springer (recommanded).
Kohlenberg, B. & Callaghan, G. M. (2010). FAP and Acceptance Commitment Therapy: Similarities, divergence, and integration. In Kanter, J.W., Tsai, M., & Kohlenberg R.J. (Eds.). The practice of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. New York: Springer.
Warm regards,
David Gillanders' Training Page
David Gillanders' Training PageHi, I hope you've enjoyed training with me or maybe you have just found these training goodies! Hope you enjoy these materials and find them useful, they are given away, not for profit, so don't go making a profit from them! You don't need permission to use or copy any of these materials.
If you want to contact me to arrange a training, or ask about any training materials you can email me via the University of Edinburgh website here.
Here is some description of the content of this page:
NEW!!!! My team and I at the University of Edinburgh have created some training videos of therapy sessions with simulated clients. These are password protected so to see them you will need to download this document
Powerpoints for various workshops and trainings I deliver:
Empirical Status (updated June 2015)
Introduction to ACT Powerpoint
A presentation on ACT & Behaviour Analysis
Metaphors I have created - The sailing boat metaphor, the rope bridge metaphor, the bicycle factory, walking the path, taking your armour off.
Therapist behaviour tracking grids - These are inspired by the work of Henry Whitfield of Mindfulness Ltd. who has done a more detailed version for tracking the level of organisation and purpose of therapy behaviours. I have simplified this down to simply helping people track the function of their behaviour or when observing others, and even provided a further simplification.
A developmentally sequenced introductory reading list (updated March 2015)
A picture of the two sides of the hexagon
Workability diary - I use this early on in treatment after having the client discriminate how they are standing towards their probelm using physical gestures of fighting, hiding, or willing and then have them keep an activity diary for a week that also serves to have them discriminate if these activities are fighting, hiding or willing and to rate how much they feel they are really living their life in each moment, theres also a space to write notes on what things hook you in or help you be willing. I've also done a version 2.0 that changes 'fighting' to 'figure it out' which may fit some clients strategies better.
Selected ACT readings - just stories, poems and quotes that inspire me and are ACT relevant
ACT audio exercises: These are 6 recordings of exercises, targeting each of the main ACT processes. Before listening or downloading you must read the guide and disclaimer document.
I've attached a case formulation sheet that walks you through functional analysis / workability. The rating of dimensions of psychological flexibliity owes a debt to Kelly's approach in M42, and to David Chantry's ACTADVISOR
This case formualtion sheet has been simplified and revised a number of times, this is the latest version I use, based on feedback from participants. Its version 2.2.
Mark Turner of Guy's Hospital, London has adapted the formulation template for working with people who have visible difference concerns
I also have completed a version as an example of the client John, who appears itn the videos that are mentioned in the document above.
These are the slides that Helen Bolderston and I used for our Seattle preconference workshop: 'Learning ACT from the Inside Out'
ACT Peer Reviewed Trainers Think Tank June 2021
ACT Peer Reviewed Trainers Think Tank June 2021Hi Trainers Community!
Here is the link to the video presentation. You can toggle between the slides being large or the presenter being large or both equal by hovering your cursor over the video and clicking on the arrows and icons on the right of the screen.
Watch this first, then reflect on the questions below. If you are unable to attend the Think Tank on Friday you can post your own contribution to the Trainer's List serve in advance and we can begin the dialogue there. If you are able to attend on Friday, watch the video, think about the questions, feel free to post on the list serve about this, but otherwise just bring your own thoughts and experiences to the Think Tank.
Reflections
What ways do you currently evaluate your training?
What are the benefits of doing so?
How do you see the disadvantages, costs or unintended consequences to evaluating training outcomes?
What do people think about trying to develop a consensus on measurement - a shared package of measures?
How do you react to the idea of a shared platform for therapist development tracking that generates training outcome data from across the group of trainers?
In the think tank we will go straight into small group work to share our reflections, and then come together as a group.
There is also time set aside in the Think Tank to discuss the recent list serve actvivity, which will be led by the Training Comitte members rather than by me.
Looking forward to seeing as many of you there as possible,
Best wishes
David
David Gillanders
Additional unpublished materials referred to in the presentation
You can see and download all the materials that I have been developing but as yet have not published, that I mentioned in my presentation. The slides themselves have links or citations to much of the published material.
The Mindful Healthcare Scale:
ACSSES
AKQ-R
Description of Development Work
Tracking Consultations
Elizabeth Maher's Training Page
Elizabeth Maher's Training PageHello,
Welcome to my training page. On this page you will find various materials that I use in my training. My page is just getting started so there will be more added in due course. So far, you will find various metaphors that I have created, an ACT thought record, a psychological flexibility model in layman's terms, and information on supervision and consultation. I hope you find these materials helpful.
If you have any queries or to arrange a training, please feel free to contact me liz@nz-act-training.com
Jason Luoma's training page
Jason Luoma's training pageAttached below are some documents providing information on how to obtain further training in ACT and also Powerpoint presentations from some past trainings. This page is just getting started, so more presentations will be added over time.
*Can't see the links below? Access to attachments, videos, audio, the professional listserv, etc. are a privilege of paid ACBS membership.
With Values-Based Dues, you choose how much you pay for your membership. You can sign up here.
For more information about training I provide, online training, and a listserv to be alerted to ACT trainings in the Pacific NW, you can go here for more info. Additional ACT-relevant handouts and ACT audio-recordings can be found here.
Jen Plumb Vilardaga's Training Page
Jen Plumb Vilardaga's Training PageWelcome to Jen's trainer page!
Here you will find lots of great things that you can download, only for members who have paid their values-based dues.
Anything here that I have created is not copyrighted. Other materials are cited accordingly and are not copyrighted.
The video you see on this page is of myself and Matt Villatte; created to help people think about different ways to create actions in line with values (this video also has RFT prompts).
At the bottom of this page (below the video) you will find a link to "TRAINING HANDOUTS". Here you will find handouts from my most recent trainings.
I hope you enjoy all that you find here. Please do not hesitate to contact me for additional information at jennifer.plumb.vilardaga@duke.edu
TRAINING HANDOUTS
TRAINING HANDOUTSThese are handouts from recent trainings
Lou Lasprugato's Training Page
Lou Lasprugato's Training PageWelcome to my ACT Training Resource Page!
Below you will find my bio, links to my introductory training and consultation videos, an interviewI conducted with experts on ACT and Behavior Analysis, and webinars on the ACT Matrix, Going EPIC (Experiential, Pragmatic, Integrative, Contextual) in ACT, and Magic ACT: Transforming Pain into Purpose with Clinical RFT (co-facilitated by Phillip Cha). Also included are a few workshop testimonials and other resources, including worksheets which you are welcome to use as you wish, as long as not for profit.
For more information on individual training/consultation, please click here
Bio:
Lou Lasprugato, MFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, with private practices in both California and Virginia, and Peer-Reviewed Trainer in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Lou has worked as a psychotherapist in a variety of settings over the years, including an intensive outpatient program at Kaiser Permanente that he subsequently managed, and an integrative medicine program at Sutter Health. He has facilitated dozens of workshops internationally on ACT and mindfulness, as well as co-created courses and lectures on nutritional psychology, stress system restorative therapy, and integrative mental health. Lou has also provided supervision to other mental health professionals and continues to provide individual consultation on ACT and other contextual behavioral approaches. He earned his Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, with a specialization in Holistic Studies from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, following a career as a professional musician.
Workshop Testimonials:
"The training was well-organized. Highest quality. Lou is a talented presenter-personable, knowledgeable. I appreciated the mix of lecture and experiential - it kept things interesting and gave us a chance to try out the skills. I enjoyed learning more about ACT and how to use it. I will seek out other trainings offered by both Lou and Praxis." - Debbie Oliver, MFT
"The presenter was clearly very knowledgable and comfortable with teaching the information. Although anxiety-provoking, practicing the skills was helpful. I liked the various examples to help facilitate application of ACT in my own practice." - Jessica Lester, PsyD
"Loved the training, pacing, information. Lou was engaging, injecting humor, and giving great examples." - Lorraine Blue, MFT
"Training today with Lou Lasprugato was fantastic! Really lovely and powerful combination of heart and mind that is rare to find. Great teacher. Lots of really useful demos and practical exercises." Marc Tibber, DClinPsy
Worksheets:
PLEASE NOTE: worksheets are available for download only by ACBS members when logged in. Consider joining this global network of contextual behavioral scientists and clinicians with values-based dues (see Join/Renew link).Clinician:
ABC Choice Point - adapted version of Russ Harris' Choice Point with ABC emphasis (powerpoint for telehealth format)
ACT Case Conceptualization Grid - functional contextual case conceptualization and treatment planning worksheet
ACT Training Model - multifaceted overview for training ACT based upon Contextual Behavioral Science
Flexibility Across Dimensions - clinical/training coding sheet for assessing psychological flexibility across the six dimensions
Hexaflex Monitor - clinical/training worksheet (Portland peer-practice perspective) for monitoring Hexaflex-based interventions
Introducing Psychological Flexibility - multiple exemplars for evoking psychological flexibility across the core processes + creative hopelessness
RFT Interventions for Transforming Pain into Purpose - relationally framed questions designed to transform the function of painful private events
Client/Clinician:
ACT Matrix - diagram for sorting context of experience and function of behavior to cue psychological flexibility (adapted version)
ACT Matrix fillable - powerpoint version for telehealth format
ACT Vowels Assessment (AVA) - clinical instrument for asssessing psychological flexibility skills at intake
Bullseye - worksheet/assessment tool for values-based living within four primary life domains (adapted version)
Cycle of Suffering - worksheet for assessing conditional/cyclical patterns of unworkable behavior (from pain to suffering)
Cycle of Resilience - worksheet for identifying conditional/cyclical patterns of workable behavior (from pain to purpose)
Flexible Action Plan - worksheet for hierarchical exploration of flexible action planning (life domain, values, actions)
Flexibility and Alliance Session Tool (FAST) - clinical instrument for assessing psychological flexibility skills and therapeutic alliance at follow-up
Wheel of Fulfillment - worksheet for exploring the significance of valued life domains and corresponding fulfillment
ACT Skills Group Series:
Curriculum outlines available below. If interested in obtaining the various worksheets/handouts utilized within the group series, please email me directly at lasprugatomft@gmail.com
Louise Hayes' Training Page
Louise Hayes' Training PageLouise Hayes' Training Page
Welcome to my training page. I hope you enjoy doing ACT work with young people as much as I do. Here you will find materials that I use in my workshops.
You need to be logged in as a member to download the attachments, so if nothing is happening when you click on a link, try logging in.
Attached are my values cards in English, Dutch, and Italian, among a few other things.
As you may remember from my workshops, membership of ACBS takes only a few minutes and costs just a few dollars. We keep this fee very low because our aim is to welcome you into the community. Once you are logged in you will find you have access to information from the entire community, a plethora of publications, clinical materials, measures, presentations, etc…
If you are having difficulty please drop me an email and I’ll try and help you.
There are more free resources available from my website www.louisehayes.com.au
Kind regards, Louise
Hayes values cards - Danish translation
Hayes values cards - Danish translationThe file with a Danish translation can be downloaded at this link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/q37bxqtwofwaddd/Hayes%20cards%20danish%20new%20version.pdf?dl=0
The translation was done by camilla grønlund, camilla@acthouse.dk
Thanks Camilla
Norwegian values cards
Norwegian values cards Louise HayesValues cards French translations - 3 files
Values cards French translations - 3 filesThere are two card files for the French translation. One contains cards that have images, the other has question cards.
You will also need the instruction booklet, which is in english on this site.
Louise
Values cards translated into Polish (wersja polska)
Values cards translated into Polish (wersja polska)Hi all,
Below you will find translation of Louise Hayes's Values Cards into Polish.
best regards,
Joanna Dudek-Glabicka
Values cards translated into Spanish
Values cards translated into SpanishGraciela Rovner has translated the cards into Spanish.
Attached.
Values cards translation Portuguese (Portugal)
Values cards translation Portuguese (Portugal)Dear all,
Please find in the attachment below the portuguese (from Portugal) translation of Louise Hayes's Values Cards.
Peace,
Nuno Ferreira
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
University of Edinburgh
Nuno.Ferreira@ed.ac.uk
(0044)1316503898
Matthew Boone's Trainer Page
Matthew Boone's Trainer Page
Welcome to my trainer page. Here, you can view a list of my peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, invited lectures, and conference presentations. Please visit my website: www.matthewsboone.com for more information about me.
Watch my training series: ACT Nuggets (included at the bottom of this page).
Or check out this video from one of my workshops where we demonstrate the ACT classic metaphor: Tug of War.
Watch these ACT animations I helped to create at my day job. (FYI - this should not be construed as an endorsement by the VA of my non-VA training activities)
My ACT for Depression and Anxiety group protocol can be found here. (Only accessible to ACBS members) Alterantively, if you would like me to email you a copy, write to me.
Ole Taggaard Nielsen's Training Page
Ole Taggaard Nielsen's Training PageHi Everyone !
Welcome to my Training page where you will find various ACT resources in Danish.
I hope you will enjoy these materials and find them useful.
I am a licensed Psychologist and Specialist in Psychotherapy and Supervision, ACBS Peer reviewed ACT Trainer and member of the ACBS trainer community. Owner of the private practice “ACT Klinikken” in Copenhagen - www.actklinikken.dk.
Feel free to get in contact with me if you have any questions, comments and suggestions.
(You need to be logged in as a member to download the attachments, so if nothing is happening when you click on a link, try logging in).
Steve Hayes' Training Page
Steve Hayes' Training PageWelcome to my training page!
This entire site is fillied with training resources, but I use this page so that people who have been to trainings of mine can get oriented to the work. If you cannot see the attachments on these pages it is because you are not yet logged in ... see below.
I generally add talks and resources as I do events and leave just the last couple of years here, but if I forget to add something you want, let me know and I will try to get them up.
At the bottom of this page are links to many materials you might find useful, and links to other areas of the site where you will find more materials.
However, you will not be able to view or download these materials without becoming a member of ACBS. That is because access to attachments, videos, audio, the professional listserv, and so on are a privilege of paid ACBS membership. Becoming a member takes less than 3 minutes, and is an easy one-step process. The link is below.
Some videos etc I cannot put on this page (such as my TED talks. The first one can be found here: www.bit.ly/StevesFirstTED
WORKSHOP ATTENDEES: If you received a special link, use it to join rather than the link below. Then whether you just joined or are already and ACBS member log in first. If you did not get a special link, use the link that is only a couple of lines down from here.
If this "you have to be a member" pitch sounds like a crass attempt to get you to give money to ACBS, well it really is not. It is a crass attempt to get you to be part of a community, and that is much different. With Values-Based Dues, you choose how much you pay for your membership based on what your values are, how you think ACBS furthers those values, and your ability to pay. If you are new and don't know whether this organization and this website is important to you, it is perfectly reasonable to use lower amounts initially and then adjust your dues as you learn what it has to offer [When ACBS went to values-based dues, dues payments went up -- there is a nice ACT-consistent lesson in there]. And of course if you are very poor, go all the way to the minimum. Simply go to www.contextualscience.org/join to complete the process. (If you have an account already, be sure to log in first to see the attachments to this page and throughout the site. You can technically have a website account and not yet have joined -- watch out for that no man's land because you will not see the attachments.). If you do not have a credit card or cannot afford even the minimum (in the Developing Nations, that is not uncommon for example) then just send an email to our Executive Director at acbs@contextualscience.org (or to me -- I will be happy to pay for it). The requirement for a credit card is to avoid spam spiders from joining and loading spam onto the site since once you are a member you can upload anything that seems relevant to the work, creating pages and so on.
I hope that you find these materials interesting and helpful in your journey and that the make a difference in the lives of those you serve.
Peace, love and life.
- S
(Try to solve any problems by searching the site but if you cannot, then email me: stevenchayes "at-sign" gmail "dot" com ... sheesh, why do I even try to avoid spammers?)
Training Slides and Handouts
Training Slides and HandoutsBelow you will find slides and any related handouts from workshops I have given.
Please fee free to peruse beyond the materials from a training you did with me.
2011 Trainings
2011 TrainingsThese are materials for a few workshops I am giving or have given in 2011. Things that seem repetitive I do not upload so if your specific workshop is not here, just try one of the others and see if it is close
2010 Trainings
2010 Trainings Steven Hayes2009 Trainings
2009 Trainings2012 Trainings
2012 TrainingsMy workshops in 2012 have used the same slides set. The one for Chicago and Phoenix is the generic one; the one for Newport Beach is listed specifically. These are in PowerPoint and should load on any system with MS Office on it or equivalent.
Trainings in Germany March 2012
Trainings in Germany March 2012I've attached below a number of resources sent to me by Rainer Sonntag and Georg Eifert that might be of special use to participants in my March 2012 workshops in Germany. If you can see this it is because you haven't logged in. You have to join ACBS and then log in to see the materials.
By the way, there is a German chapter forming and there is more extensive page of German materials on the website. Just search for "German" and you will find it.
2013 Trainings
2013 Trainings Steven Hayes2014 Trainings
2014 Trainings Steven Hayes2015 trainings
2015 trainingsI now do most of my trainings with Praxis, a training company owned by New Harbinger Publications
For information, go to www.praxiscet.com
I've attached a couple of files below however for recent 2015 workshops
2016 Trainings
2016 TrainingsHere are some slides I used in 2016
2017 Trainings
2017 Trainings Steven Hayes2018 Trainings
2018 Trainings Steven HayesACT Boot Camp workshops
ACT Boot Camp workshopsJacque and I ran BootCamp for a few years but frankly the burden of running conferences is not small and we have turned over the conduct of ACT Boot Camp to Praxis, which is a subsidiary of New Harbinger Publications.
If you are interested in ACT Boot Camp go to www.praxiscet.com for the upcoming versions and to get on their email list
ACT Boot Camp Reno February 20-23, 2014
ACT Boot Camp Reno February 20-23, 2014Here are the handouts and some additional materials. All the slides are up too. Woo hoo.
ACT Boot Camp, January 12-15, 2012
ACT Boot Camp, January 12-15, 2012We are going to hold "ACT Boot Camp" in Reno this January 12 - 15.
The first ACT Boot Camp was a complete success!
Thank you to all 161 of you who attended.
We are going to hold "ACT Boot Camp" in Reno this January 12 - 15.
The plan is this.
A two day experiential workshop will be held Thursday and Friday January 12-13 and Saturday and Sunday will focus on skills training.
There will be evening presentations each day -- talks on the model, data, sessions on reading ACT processes, and similar things.
Other than expenses and an honorium for two presenters, all income will go to support the lab in Reno.
For the individuals who want to know about level. It's a question that's tough to answer because categories like "introductory" or "intermediate" capture so little of the variance
and the topics keep changing and evolving so what is in a beginning workshop now is often not what was there a few years ago.
Let's just say it this way:
There are things in here that will benefit people of all skills levels, but it is not deliberately cast at an intermediate or advanced level. We set it up with beginners and intermediates particularly in mind.
Continuing Education credits:
We will be issuing CEUs for this event.
They will be issued through the Association for Cognitive Behavioral Science (ACBS), so APA-approved!
The credits will be for:
• Psychologists
• MFT
• Social Workers
We can get MFT and SW CEUs in California through ACBS, however, people will then have to get them recognized in their particular state.
*****Register at (www.contextualpsychology.org/join) ACBS before attending the Boot Camp*****
Schedule:
Start at 8:00am all days.
End at 9:00pm on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
End at 4:30pm on Sunday.
Payment Method:
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While this PayPal button will happily take your money
regardless, you have to take an additional step to
make sure we know who you are so we can match the
money to your actual registration.
Send an email to:
ACT.in.Context@gmail.com
with your name, contact information, and level of registration.
Make sure the name you use there and the one you then use in checking out
with PayPal (your credit card, etc.) are the same or tell us how to match the
names if they differ (e.g., "I used Geraldine Fickwat's credit card but that is
my sister. My name for registration is ..." or "I used my corporate card for registration
in the name of the 'ACT Center for All Things Wonderful' but actually my
name is John Jones and my contact information is ...
It's a kludge solution, we realize. We are working on a real one,
but in the meantime help us out.
And it would be wise to save your PayPal receipt in case of problems.
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Hotel:
ACT Boot Camp will be held at the Silver Legacy hotel in Reno.
We have a block of 60 rooms but more are available. However the deadline to reserve a room is very short: 1 week.
The rooms are super nice and are $49 Wed and Thursday night and $69 Friday and Saturday. Technically, after 2 people are in the room rates go up by $10 per person per room. Max 4 / room.
***Click Here*** to make your hotel reservation online using group code ACT12.
OR...
Call Silver Legacy at 1-800-687-8733 and give the group code ACT12. Reservations received after December 21, 2011 will only be accepted on a space and rate availability basis. Now in fact this is a slow period so that would likely still work but don’t risk it. You can stay elsewhere if you like but this will be convenient to the meeting and it is a good deal. And getting 60 rooms filled is how we got the meeting room.
Transportation:
AIRPORT: The Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) is a mere 4 miles from the resort and takes only 12-15 minutes to arrive.
SHUTTLE: The Silver Legacy offers shuttle service daily from 5am – 12 Midnight running every 30 minutes. The shuttle leaves hotel valet at the hour and half hour and picks up at the airport at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour.
PARKING: Both a 10 story parking garage, and Valet parking are available.
DRIVING: The Silver Legacy a landmark in downtown Reno and our gracious tower can be seen upon approach from any direction. The Silver Legacy is easily accessible from both the 395 and 80 freeways.
Hertz:
The Silver Legacy has arranged for special car rental rates for attendees. For your convenience there is a complete Hertz rental desk located in the Resorts Lobby and Reno Tahoe Airport near the baggage pick-up. Cars can be rented or returned at the Resort, or any Hertz Corporate location. For Hertz reservations, please call 1-800-654-2240, and use group code CV# 03VW0004.
ACT Boot Camp, March 14-17, 2013
ACT Boot Camp, March 14-17, 2013At the bottom of the page you will find the material relevant to the March 2013 ACT Boot Camp workshop. We will be updating this as we go so recheck the pages.
We will be handing out a packet at registration containing all the information needed for your workshop participation. Registration is in the Bubinga Lounge Wednesday from 5:30pm to about 10 (the meet and greet cash bar opens at 7) in the El Dorado Hotel. Registration will reopen Thursday at 7:30am in the Convention Center. Prepare yourself for some loooong days. This is called Boot Camp for a reason!
Some of the Trainers have provided their PowerPoint’s if you want to download them to follow along.
If you have any questions or need assistance, email Brian Cooper <ACT.in.Context@gmail.com>.
- S
"Love isn't everything, it's the only thing"
ACT Boot Camp, September 5-8, 2013
ACT Boot Camp, September 5-8, 2013
You will find at the bottom of the page materials to download for the ACT Boot Camp in Florida.
If you have any questions or need assistance, email Brian Cooper <ACT.in.Context@gmail.com>.
ACT and Gestalt: why are they similar?
ACT and Gestalt: why are they similar?It is very common for people to notice that ACT looks a bit like Gestalt or Emotional Focused Therapy. That links has been there from the beginning. Les Greenburg is on the back of the original ACT book for example. Why would that be?
Part of it is that contextual behavioral thinking helped establish Gestalt therapy.
Gestalt therapy never had much to do with Gestalt psychology -- even the Gestalt
psychologist that were still around rejected the comparison.
See the attached article for documentation and explanation.
Ralph wanted to call it integrative therapy ... think of how the history of psychotherapy might have been different had that happened. The ACBSers are just walking over that same ground.
All About ACT: ACT Handouts for Professionals
All About ACT: ACT Handouts for ProfessionalsThe materials below contain a longer handout (with brief description of ACT as a treatment, as well as suggestions for further reading, measurement materials, treatment protocols, and current research findings); a list of ACT randomized trials;
and a short, focused handout I use in my workshops for the Institute for Advancement of Human Behavior.
Brief audio exercises
Brief audio exercisesThese are jsut brief exercises you can use.
Clinical Tools & Protocols
Clinical Tools & ProtocolsThe resources attached below are helpful for doing ACT. There is an amazing number of protocols on the site ... I just attached a few to show examples.
There are many more resources, such as introductory materials for clients, other protocols, metaphors, exercises, visual aids, and so on, available on the site here: www.contextualscience.org/clinical_resources
Fun things
Fun thingsThis is a page just with things I like ... mostly from other people. The poem from Jason Luoma (The ACT Therapist) is awesome.
The Greek film is one of those "open your eyes; touch your non-toothache" pieces that moves we every time I see it
Handouts to Use with Clients
Handouts to Use with ClientsBelow are a few handouts you may wish to use with clients.
There are more available at www.contextualscience.org/clincial_resources
How to test RFT
How to test RFTHOW TO TEST RFT
I occasionally hear the old chestnut that "RFT is not really testable."
It makes me mad.
Over two decades ago my students and I laid out a fairly well crafted list of ways you can test RFT.
I've put the in the page numbers of the quotes below for a reason: so you can cite specific predictions if you want even if you do not have access to this book.
Many of these predictions are now known to be true. And not one piece of disconfirmatory evidence has yet emerged, so far as I know.
I would invite RFTers who are publishing new pieces to occasionally remember our history. If you agree with me that these were indeed reasonable stakes to pound in the ground 20 years ago, then every once in a while it would be good remind readers that the theory was laid out in testable ways from the beginning. There are dozens of such predictions in the 2001 purple book but even before that, we were putting our ideas on the line and asking for help in showing where and how the theory was wrong. In the history of science all theories are wrong -- in their details at least -- given enough time and effort to test them. That surely includes RFT. I'm not a falsificationist but risky tests are pragmatically useful because as we learn more about the contextual conditions under which knowledge claims, we advance the precision, scope, and depth of our analyses.
Anyway, the summary below should be of use.
- Steve Hayes
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Hayes S. C., Gifford, E. V. & Ruckstuhl, Jr., L. E. (1996) Relational frame theory and executive function. Chapter in G. R. Lyon & N. A. Krasnegor (Eds.), Attention, memory and executive function (pp. 279-305). Baltimore: Brookes.
From p. 298:
TESTS OF THE THEORY
A theory of executive function based on relational frames has two somewhat distinct components that can be tested: whether relational frame theory is a worthwhile account of human verbal behavior and verbal regulation, and whether executive function can be usefully thought of in these terms.
Relational frame theory argues that relational frames are learned and are not primitive psychological functions. We already mentioned five testable components to this claim: They should show clear developmental trends, they should be flexible, they should be under both antecedent and consequential control, and improved relational abilities should emerge from deliberate training. Supportive data exist in each these five areas, but much more remains to be done.
The last point is particularly in accord with the pragmatic assumptions of behavior analysis: The best way to test a theory or device is to see if it can lead to more effective treatment (Hayes, Nelson, & Jarrett, 1987). Training could occur with populations who have disabilities in rule generation, rule understanding, and rule following, such as children with attention deficits or hyperactivity, youth who are antisocial, and those with mental retardation. Typical youth could be
From p. 299:
given procedures designed to modify existing repertoires and accelerate their healthy development.
These five testable components of the claim that relational frames are learned also suggest ways that this key aspect of relational frame theory can be disproved. If derived stimulus relations are present in whole cloth in neonates, or emerge without training in nonhumans, the theory is disproven. If new, more subtle, or more complex stimulus relations cannot be taught to children and brought to bear on arbitrary events in a fashion envisioned by the theory, it is disproven. The theory argues that a wide variety of relations can be trained and that derived stimulus functions will be transformed by these underlying relations. The first point has some empirical support, but not yet the latter. If complex relations are merely a by-product of equivalence and nonequivalence, and if derived functions are merely transferred, not transformed, when relations such as oppositeness pertain to two stimuli, the theory is disproven. A key idea is that relational frames are a defining feature of human verbal behavior. If the behavioral functions of verbal events (e.g., self-awareness, construction of long-term futures and a resultant reduction in impulsivity, complex problem solving) do not emerge in children in a fashion that parallels developing relational abilities, the theory is disproven. If complex relational frames can be developed in nonhumans, without also seeing some of the effects produced in humans by verbal behavior, the theory is disproven.
If relational frame theory is correct, children should show increased abilities in verbal regulation as they learn to apply more complex relational frames to events (e.g., if-then, comparatives). The theory suggests that the key aspects of training are 1) increases in the number of available relational frames, 2) increases in combinatorial abilities and the resultant complexity of the derived relational networks, 3) greater sensitivity and subtlety in the contextual control of relational frames and resulting increases in both their arbitrary applicability and appropriate regulation by physical context, 4) increased ability to transform stimulus functions through derived stimulus relations and greater sensitivity and subtlety in the contextual control over this process of transformation, 5) greater ability to relate networks of relations, and 6) greater ability to alter the functions of the previously nonverbal world by including aspects of this world in relational networks. As these performances increase in children, we should see increases in self-control, reasoning, and problem solving-if not, the theory is disproven.
According to the theory, following verbal rules is a product of the ability both to apply if-then frames to events and to transform the functions of verbally constructed consequences and of experience with contingencies that support specific types of rule following, such as pliance, tracking, and augmenting. Both contentions are clearly testable. Our line of thinking also suggests that pliance usually helps establish tracking, which helps establish augmenting. It suggests that moral development and other complex forms of rule governance normally emerge in that sequence and may need to be trained in that sequence. It also suggests novel ways that deficits in rule following may occur, such as mismatches of
From p. 300:
types of rules and rule following (e.g., the tendency for persons with some histories to treat descriptions as demands and thus to show pliance or counterpliance instead of tracking in these situations).
Testing these effects of verbal rules will be difficult, but behavior analysis offers the field at large not just a theoretical approach, but also a set of methods that are highly precise and well-developed. These include refined methods of arbitrary matching-to-sample and methods for testing the effects of rules on sensitivity to changes in environmental demands. Behavior analysts have also argued for and used refined "talk aloud" methods for detecting the participation of verbal rules in problem solving (Hayes, 1986; Wulfert, Dougher, & Greenway, 1991).
Measures and Tools for Case Formulation and to Track Therapy Outcomes and Processes
Measures and Tools for Case Formulation and to Track Therapy Outcomes and ProcessesHere are a few commonly-given measures to assess client progress in key ACT domains.
There are many more available, including foreign language and population-specific versions of measures, as well as information on who developed them; all available by visiting the Measures & Assessment section of the site.
Therapy Transcripts
Therapy TranscriptsThese files are transcripts of real treatment sessions with clients (recorded and shared with permission). Please treat them carefully as they are confidential clinical materials.
Videos of one of these sessions is available for purchase from APA:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Steven C. Hayes. (Part of the Systems of Psychotherapy APA Psychotherapy Video Series)
Also, there are many other videos available for purchase and all make great training materials. To explore other formal materials for learning and doing ACT, visit: www.contextualscience.org/books_tapes
World Conference 13 in Berlin slides and materials
World Conference 13 in Berlin slides and materialsHere are the slides and handouts for my PreCon and the slides for my talks at WC 13 - Steve Hayes
WorldCon XI in Sydney Pre-Conference Workshop
WorldCon XI in Sydney Pre-Conference WorkshopHere are miscellaneous materials from our workshop
including some some clinical tools, measures, and several articles ...
By the way, to understand what the "ACT ADVISOR" stands for open the file just by that name (its a simple rating scale -- no items -- but the key explains the acronym)
The slides are up. Most of the RFT slides in Day 2 are in the Day 1 section and many of the Day 2 slides were not used
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ACBS Conference Talks from 2010 or earlier
ACBS Conference Talks from 2010 or earlierBelow are slides from talks I have given on ACT, RFT, and Contextual Behavioral Science at conferences and meetings.