Attached notes by: Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Richard Bennett, John Boorman, Joe Oliver and Miles Thompson.
First presented at the third BABCP ACT SIG / ACBS UK & Ireland Chapter Contextual Behavioural Science Conference, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, from the 22nd to 25th November 2016.
This video is designed to give a live demonstration of the clinical application of Relational Frame Theory. The video itself is footage from a live, unscripted interaction between the therapist (Yvonne Barnes-Holmes) and the client (Richard Bennett).
As well as watching the video below, please make sure you look at the attachment for detailed annotated notes about the video. The notes aim to provide a concise and informative explanation of the therapeutic techniques employed in the video and their rationale.
Thanks
The video and these notes have only been made possible by the kind and courageous assistance of Dr Richard Bennett, the individual who was the ‘subject of therapy’ in the video. Richard is a highly experienced psychologist and ACT therapist. He is also a peer reviewed ACT trainer and proficient in RFT. However, the issues he disclosed were of a personal nature and there was no discussion of these or any other issues prior to shooting the video. Richard has provided his own insight into the therapeutic interactions in the latter section of these notes.
We are also indebted to the ACT Special Interest Group of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) who funded the videos.
The input to this work by Yvonne Barnes-Holmes was supported by an Odysseus Group 1 grant awarded to Dermot Barnes-Holmes by the Flanders Science Foundation (FWO) at the Department of Experimental, Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.