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Melendez, J. L., Tan, I.M.C., Lau, J.C., & Leung, J. (2021). Practical Resources for Talking to Children with Autism about Systemic Racism. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 14, 451–461.
Mellick, W. H., Mills, J. A., Kroska, E. B., Calarge, C. A., Sharp, C., & Dindo, L. N. (2019). Experiential avoidance predicts persistence of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder in late adolescence. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 80(6), 18m12265. DOI: 10.4088/JCP.18m12265
Melton, L. (2016). Development of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workshop for Diabetes. Clinical Diabetes, 34(4), 211-213. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Menand, L. (2001). The metaphysical club: A story of ideas in America. New York: Farra, Straus, and Giroux.
Mendes-Santos, C., Weiderpass, E., Santana, R., & Andersson, G. (2019). A guided internet-delivered individually-tailored ACT-influenced cognitive behavioral intervention to improve psychosocial outcomes in breast cancer survivors (iNNOVBC): Study protocol. Internet Interventions, 17, 100236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2019.01.004
Mendoza, H., Tully, E. C., Goodnight, B., Gray, J., & Masudad, A. (2018). The indirect effect of self-concealment on distress through psychological inflexibility in Asian American, Black American, and White American college students. Personality and Individual Differences, 126, 93-98. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.01.024
Menzies, R.G., & Menzies, R.E. (2024). Existential therapies and the extended evolutionary meta-model: Turning existential philosophy into process-based therapy. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 34, 100840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs.2024.100840
Merwin, R. & Wilson, K. (2009). Understanding and treating eating disorders: An ACT perspective. In T J. Blackledge, J. Ciarrochi, & F. Deane (Eds). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Current directions. Australian Academic Press.
Merwin, R. M. (2011). Anorexia nervosa as a disorder of emotion regulation: Theory, evidence, and treatment implications. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 18(3), 208-214. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R. M., & Wilson, K. G. (2005). Preliminary findings on the effects of self-referring and evaluative stimuli on stimulus equivalence class formation. Psychological Record, 55, 561-575. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R. M., Dmitrieva, N. O., Honeycutt, L. K., Moskovich, A. A., Lane, J. D., Zucker, N. L., ... & Kuo, J. (2015). Momentary Predictors of Insulin Restriction Among Adults With Type 1 Diabetes and Eating Disorder Symptomatology. Diabetes care, 38(11), 2025-2032. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R. M., Moskovich, A. A., Dmitrieva, N. O., Pieper, C. F., Honeycutt, L. K., Zucker, N. L., ... & Buhi, L. (2014). Disinhibited eating and weight-related insulin mismanagement among individuals with type 1 diabetes. Appetite, 81, 123-130. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R. M., Moskovich, A. A., Wagner, H. R., Ritschel, L. A., Craighead, L. W., & Zucker, N. L. (2013). Emotion regulation difficulties in anorexia nervosa: Relationship to self-perceived sensory sensitivity. Cognition & emotion, 27(3), 441-452. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R. M., Nikolaou, P., Moskovich, A. A., Babyak, M., Smith, P. J., & Karekla, M. (2023). Change in body image flexibility and correspondence with outcomes in a digital early intervention for eating disorders based on acceptance and commitment therapy. Body Image, 44, 131-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.12.010
Merwin, R. M., Rosenthal, M. Z., & Coffey, K. A. (2009). Experiential avoidance mediates the relationship between sexual victimization and psychological symptoms: Replicating findings with an ethnically diverse sample. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 33, 537-542. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R. M., Timko, C. A., Moskovich, A. A., Ingle, K. K., Bulik, C. M., & Zucker, N. L. (2010). Psychological inflexibility and symptom expression in anorexia nervosa. Eating Disorders, 19(1), 62-82. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R. M., Zucker, N. L., & Timko, C. A. (2013). A pilot study of an acceptance-based separated family treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 20(4), 485-500. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R. M., Zucker, N. L., & Wilson, K. G. (2019). ACT for Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide for Clinicians. New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Merwin, R. M., Zucker, N. L., Lacy, J. L., & Elliott, C. A. (2010). Interoceptive awareness in eating disorders: Distinguishing lack of clarity from nonacceptance of internal experience. Cognition and Emotion, 24, 892-902. Download restricted to ACBS members.
Merwin, R.M. (2020). ACT Innovations for Dangerous Weight Control: Anorexia Nervosa and ED-DMT1. In M. Levin, M. Twohig & J. Krafft (Eds.). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Clinical Advances and Applications in ACT. New Harbinger Publications: Oakland, CA.
Merwin, R.M., Cuper, P., Lynch, T., & Malone, K. (2020). Personality disorders. In P. Sturmey. (2nd Ed.), Treatment and intervention in clinical psychology: Functional analysis in clinical treatment. Elsevier Academic Press; San Diego, CA.
Merwin, R.M., Moskovich, A.A., Babyak, M., Feinglos, M., Honeycutt, L.K., Mooney, J., Freeman, S.P., Batchelder, H., Sangvai, D. (2021). An open trial of app-assisted acceptance and commitment therapy (iACT) for eating disorders in type 1 diabetes. Journal of Eating Disorders, 9 (6). DOI: 10.1186/s40337-020-00357-6. PMCID: PMC7789378. PMID: 33407910.
Merwin, R.M., Moskovich, A.A., Honeycutt, L.K., Lane, J.D., Feinglos, M. Surwit, R.S., Zucker, N.L., Dmitrieva, N.O., Babyak, M.A., Batchelder, H., & Mooney, J. (2018). Time of day when individuals with type 1 diabetes and eating disorder symptoms commonly restrict insulin, Psychosomatic Medicine, 80 (2), 222-229. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000550
Merwin, R.M., Nikolaou, P., Moskovich, A.A., Babyak, M., Smith, P.J. & Karekla, M. (2023). Change in body image flexibility and correspondence with outcomes in a digital early intervention for eating disorders based on acceptance and commitment therapy. Body Image, 44, 131-135.
Merwin, R.M., O’Rourke, S.R., Ives, L., Harstad, S. & Brooks, T. (2020). Third-wave cognitive behavioral therapies for the treatment of anxiety among children and adolescents. In S. Compton, M.A. Villabo, and H. Kristensen (Eds.), Pediatric Anxiety Disorders. Elsevier.