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Westrup, D. (2014). Advanced Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The experienced practitioner's guide to optimizing delivery. New Harbinger Publications.
Westrup, D. A. (2001). Experiential avoidance and alcohol dependence relapse. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 62(1-B), 568.
Westrup, D., & Wright, M. J. (2017). Learning ACT for Group Treatment: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Skills Training Manual for Therapists. Context Press.
Weststrate, T.R., Briggs, C.A., Miller, A., Shuster, A.E., & Gaynor, S.T. (2023). Brief acceptance and commitment therapy added to medication management during acute alcohol detoxification: A pilot randomized controlled effectiveness trial. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 29, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.06.002
Wetherell JL, Afari N, Rutledge T, Sorrell JT, Stoddard JA, Petkus AJ, Solomon BC, Lehman DH, Liu L, Lang AJ, Hampton Atkinson J. (2011). A randomized, controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy for chronic pain. Pain, 152, 2098-2107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2011.05.016 Download restricted to ACBS members.
Wetherell, J. L., Herbert, M., & Afari, N. (2019). Mechanism of Action: Age Differences in Response to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain. Innovation In Aging, 3(1), S809. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igz038.2979
Wetherell, J. L., Liu, L., Patterson, T. L., Afari, N., Ayers, C. R., Thorp, S. R., ... & Sorrell, J. T. (2011). Acceptance and commitment therapy for generalized anxiety disorder in older adults: A preliminary report. Behavior Therapy, 42(1), 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2010.07.002
Wetterneck, C. T., Lee, E. B., Smith, A. H. & Hart, J. M. (2013). Courage, self-compassion, and values in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 2, 68-73.
Wetterneck, C. T., Pinciotti, C. M., Knott, L., Kinnear, K., & Storch, E. A. (2020). Development and validation of the Adult OCD Impact Scale (AOIS): A measure of psychosocial functioning for adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 18, 287-293. doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2020.10.005
Wharton, E., Edwards, K. S., Juhasz, K., & Walser, R. D. (2019). Acceptance-based interventions in the treatment of PTSD: Group and individual pilot data using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 14, 55-64.
Whelan, R. & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2010). Consequence Valuing as Operation and Process: A Parsimonious Analysis of Motivation. The Psychological Record, 60, 337–354.
Whelan, R., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2004). Empirical models of formative augmenting in accordance with the relations of same, opposite, more-than, and less-than. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 285-302. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Whelan, R., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2004). Empirical models of formative augmenting in accordance with the relations of same, opposite, more-than, and less-than. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 285-302.
Whelan, R., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2004). The transformation of consequential functions in accordance with the relational frames of same and opposite. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 82, 177-195. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Whelan, R., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2004). The transformation of consequential functions in accordance with the relational frames of same and opposite. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 82, 177-195.
Whelan, R., & Schlund, M. (2013). Reframing relational frame theory research: Gaining a new perspective through the application of novel behavioral and neurophysiological methods. In S. Dymond & B. Roche (Eds.), Advances in relational frame theory: Research and application, 151-177. Oakland, CA: Context Press. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Whelan, R., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Dymond, S. (2006). The transformation of consequential functions in accordance with the relational frames of more-than and less-than. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 86(3), 317-335. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Whelan, R., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Dymond, S. (2006). The transformation of consequential functions in accordance with the relational frames of more-than and less-than. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 86(3), 317-335.
Whelan, R., Cullinan, V., & O'Donovan, A. (2005). Derived same and opposite relations produce association and mediated priming. = Mismas Relaciones derivadas y Opuestas Producen la Asociación y la Preparación Mediada. International Journal of Psychology & Psychological Therapy, 5 (3), 247-264. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Whelan, R., Cullinan, V., & O'Donovan, A. (2005). Derived same and opposite relations produce association and mediated priming. = Mismas Relaciones derivadas y Opuestas Producen la Asociación y la Preparación Mediada. International Journal of Psychology & Psychological Therapy, 5 (3), 247-264.
White, R. G., Gregg, J., Batten, S., Hayes, L. L., & Kasujja, R. (2017). Contextual Behavioral Science and Global Mental Health: Synergies and opportunities. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 6(3), 245-251. doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2017.07.001
White, R. G., Gumley, A. I., McTaggart, J., Rattrie, L., McConville, D., Cleare, S, & Mitchell, G. (2011). A feasibility study of acceptance and commitment therapy for emotional dysfunction following psychosis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49, 901-907. (2011). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2011.09.003 Download restricted to ACBS members.
White, R. G., Gumley, A. I., McTaggart, J., Rattrie, L., McConville, D., Cleare, S., McLeod, H. J., & Mitchell, G. (2015). Acceptance and commitment therapy for depression following psychosis: An examination of clinically significant change. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 4, 203-209.
White, R. G., Larkin, P., McCluskey, J., Lloyd, J., & McLeod, H. J. (2020). The development of the ‘Forms of Responding to Self-Critical Thoughts Scale’ (FoReST). Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 15, 20-29.
White, R., McGeachan, C., Miller, G., & Xenophontos, S. (2020). “Other psychotherapies”: Healing interactions across time, geography, and culture. Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 57(6) 727–740. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461520948997