ACT for Anxiety related to COVID-19
Psychological flexibility mediates the relations between acute psychedelic effects and subjective decreases in depression and anxiety
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS)
Special Issue on Contextual Behavioral Science and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Volume 15, January 2020, Pages 39-45
Authors
Alan K. Davis, Frederick S. Barrett, Roland R. Griffith
Abstract
Psychological flexibility mediates the relations between acute psychedelic effects and subjective decreases in depression and anxiety (Pages 39-45)
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS)
Special Issue on Contextual Behavioral Science and the Psychedelic Renaissance
Volume 15, January 2020, Pages 39-45
Authors
Alan K. Davis, Frederick S. Barrett, Roland R. Griffith
Abstract
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents
The reciprocal relations between experiential avoidance and social anxiety among early adolescents: A prospective cohort study
Empirical research studies have revealed the relations between experiential avoidance and the tendency to suffer from social anxiety among adult samples. In addition, interpersonal problems can be risk factors for mental health problems or maladjustment to school; however, the links have not been investigated among early adolescents. In this study, we examined the reciprocal relations between experiential avoidance and social anxiety tendency among junior high school students.
Cross-sectional relations between psychological inflexibility and symptoms of depression and anxiety among adults reporting migraines or risk factors for cardiovascular disease (Pages 1-6)
Volume 13, July 2019, Pages 1-6
Authors:
Lilian Dindo, Charles P. Brandt, Jess G. Fiedorowicz
Abstract:
The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A guide to breaking free from anxiety, phobias, and worry using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Anxiety happens. It's not a choice. And attempts to "manage" your thoughts or "get rid" of worry, fear, and panic can leave you feeling frustrated and powerless. But you can take back your life from anxiety without controlling anxious thoughts and feelings. You can stop avoiding anxiety and start showing up to your life. This book will get you started, using a revolutionary new approach called acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT. The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety has one purpose: to help you live better, more fully, more richly. Your life is calling on you to make that choice, and the skills in this workbook can help you make it happen.
A pilot of acceptance and commitment therapy for public speaking anxiety delivered with group videoconferencing and virtual reality exposure (Pages 47-54)
Volume 12, April 2019, Pages 47-54
Authors:
Erica K. Yuen, Elizabeth M. Goetter, Michael J. Stasio, Philip Ash, Briana Mansour, Erin McNally, Morgan Sanchez, Erica Hobar, Simone Forte, Kristin Zulaica, Jordan Watkins
Abstract:
Using panicogenic inhalations of carbon-dioxide enriched air to induce attentional bias for threat: Implications for the development of anxiety disorders.
The tendency for anxious individuals to selectively attend to threatening information is believed to cause and exacerbate anxious emotional responding in a self-perpetuating cycle. The present study sought to examine the relation between differential interoceptive conditioning using carbon dioxide inhalation as a panicogenic unconditioned stimulus (US) and the development of Stroop color-naming interference to various non-word conditioned stimuli (CSs). Healthy university students (N = 27) underwent the assessment of color-naming interference to reinforced CS+ and non-reinforced CS- non-words prior to and following differential fear conditioning.
Efficacy of ACT on social anxiety disorder: A systematic review
The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) applied to the treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD). An exhaustive search was carried out in different databases. After the application of a number of inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of eight studies conducted between 2005 and 2016 were obtained and then reviewed. In three of these studies, ACT proved efficacious in reducing phobic symptoms and psychological inflexibility. The remaining five, which employed randomized controlled trial design, showed that ACT and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) produce similar improvements both at post-treatment and during the follow-up.