Effect of acceptance and commitment therapy group counseling on congruence of counselors in training
The purpose of this research was to study the effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group counseling on the congruence of counselors in training. The research design used was the quasi experimental pretest-posttest control group design. The sample group was composed of 18 third year undergraduate counselors in training from Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University. The samples (n=18) were assigned into two groups: experimental group (n=10) and control group (n=8). The experimental group participated in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group counseling conducted by the researcher for approximately 15 hours over 2 consecutive days.
Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment-Based Group Therapy on the Resilience of Mothers of Children with Intellectual Disabilities
The aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment-based group therapy on increasing the resilience of mothers of children with intellectual disabilities. The research method was a quasi-experimental design with pre-test, post-test, and follow-up groups. The study population consisted of all mothers of children with intellectual disabilities whose children were enrolled in exceptional schools in Dezful during the 1969-1971 school year. A total of 90 mothers of children with intellectual disabilities were randomly selected from this population and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The participants in the experimental group received 10 sessions of 60-minute group therapy.
Effectiveness of Group Therapy Based on Acceptance and Commitment on Social and Health Adjustment of Nursing Students
Introduction: University students have a lot of problems in the field of adjustment especially social and health adjustment. Therefore, present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on social and emotional adjustment of nursing students.
O'Brien, Singh, Horan, Moeller, Wasson, & Jex, 2019
Objectives: Nurses and nurse aides experience high rates of physical injury, assault, and abuse compared to other occupations. They also frequently have intersectional identities with other groups that experience higher rates of mental and physical health challenges and problems. In addition to belonging to these multiple vulnerable populations, nurses and nurse aides experience high levels of work stress and burnout. These variables are risk factors for injuries associated with lifting and transferring, as well as assault from residents.
ACT Groups for Partial Hospitalization/Intensive Outpatient Programs (PHP/IOP)
I work in the Birches Program at the Brattleboro Retreat in Southern Vermont, a Partial Hospitalization/Intensive Outpatient Program (PHP/IOP). Participants usually stay in our program four to six weeks. I have developed a set of a dozen ACT-based groups that are inter-related and mutally supportive. Themes of: mindfulness; compassion; matrix; defusion; acceptance; anger; assertiveness; self-care; healthy relationships; finding motivation; values and action. Partcipants also have daily check-in groups that are more freely structured. I facilitate these themes on a rotating basis.
Running acceptance and commitment therapy groups for psychosis in community settings
In this paper, we discuss the practice implications of our group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for psychosis (ACTp) evaluations, in terms of the adaptations required to ACT interventions for group implementation in routine services for people with psychosis. ACTp shows promise as a brief individual intervention for people with psychosis to improve recovery, reduce future relapse, and reduce healthcare costs. Outcomes for group ACT interventions for non-psychotic severe mental illnesses support the potential for further cost-savings, through group delivery, and two recent trials suggest that adapting group ACT interventions to suit people with psychosis is both feasible and clinically effective.