There are a wealth of free resources on this website, for therapists and coaches to use in conjunction with The Happiness Trap. You can find these on the free resources page. For details of ACT Workshops in Australia visit our sister website: www.actmindfully.com.au
Down below, you'll find a variety of interesting articles and papers relating to ACT.
Please note:
all therapists, coaches, and other health professionals are welcome to
join the worldwide ACT emailing list. This email 'chat group' enables
an online ACT community where professionals from all over the world
can get advice, discuss concepts, contribute ideas, provide peer
supervision, give input into challenging cases, inform about ACT events
worldwide, etc. To join, you need to first join the ACBS - Association
for Contextual Behavioural Psychology. This organisation is the
'mothership' of ACT and RFT. Membership is via values-based dues - ie
you pay whatever you think it's worth. Membership entitles you to a
vast array of free resources. For more info, or to join, go to: www.contextualpsychology.org
ARTICLES & PAPERS
Simple Overview of ACT:
To download a simple, non-technical, easy-to-read overview of ACT (
called 'Embracing Your Demons', an article from
Psychotherapy Australia magazine) click here.
Mindfulness Training: To download a paper by Ruth Baer on Mindfulness Training As A Clinical intervention, click here
CBT VERSUS BEHAVIOURAL ACTIVATION: COMPONENT ANALYSIS:
To download Neil Jacobson's well-designed component analysis of CBT,
which shows that the cognitive restructuring component is unneccessary:
click here
REPLICATION OF CBT COMPONENT ANALYSIS: This is a replication of Jacobson's component analysis above. To download, click here
DO WE NEED TO CHALLENGE THOUGHTS IN CBT? The title is self-explanatory. To download, click here
Experiential Avoidance: For a paper by
Steve Hayes (warning: heavy with technical jargon!) which reviews Experiential
Avoidance, the core pathological process in ACT, click here
ACT & Psychosis: For Bach and Hayes' remarkable paper on ACT with chronic psychosis, click here
ACT & Chronic Pain & Chronic Stress: A paper by Dahl & Wilson - click here
ACT & Substance Abuse: A paper by Kelly Wilson et al - click here
Values-centred Interventions In ACT: Superb article by Kelly Wilson - click here
Defining Mindfulness: An interesting article on mindfulness by Steve Hayes - click here
The ACT Packet: "The ACT Packet" is a
detailed handout including a list of published studies, a case
formulation framework, and summaries of the core act processes and
techniques, click here
ACT Hexaflex: A simple slideshow of the ACT model (known as the "ACT hexaflex"), click here
Useful Resources for RFT
RFT Made Simple: To connect to Eric
Fox's easy-to-understand (and totally free) online tutorial on
Relational Frame Theory - a sort of "RFT for Dummies", click here
Introducing RFT: To download a simple introduction to Relational Frame Theory, click here
More Introducing RFT: For a more detailed introduction to Relational Frame Theory, click here
ACT, RFT & Mindfulness: For a fascinating paper by Steve Hayes (warning: heavy on technical jargon) that theoretically ties together ACT, RFT and mindfulness, click here
Links to ACT and RFT Websites
ACT: To visit the official website for Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, click here
RFT: To visit the official website for Relational Frame Theory: click here
