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ACT in New England List
Mailing #4:
August 8, 2008
Contents:
1. Welcome
2. ACT Trainings in New England
3. Online Trainings & Distance Learning
4. Online Audio Programs
5. Other Trainings
6. Next annual ACT/RFT event
Addendum:
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1. Welcome!
This is the fourth posting of the ACT in New England List (if
you missed the previous postings, you can read them
here). The primary purpose of this list is to inform New
Englanders of upcoming ACT training opportunities in the area.
A secondary purpose is to support the budding ACT community
here. Regarding the future of this list: I am open to any and
all ideas. In the meantime, if you hear about any sort of ACT
training in New England, please let me know so I can get the
info up on the site and out to the list ASAP. And if you are
having a training of your own, please let me know and I will
help to create a listing for you.
Regarding the
emails: These mailings will be infrequent and relatively
simple. I will send them in this text format to be sure
everyone can read the content. I will provide links to our
local website (www.actinnewengland.com)
to the
ACBS site, and other relevant sites for more detailed info.
2. ACT
Trainings in New England.
- Elizabeth
Kubik and I will be hosting another
Introduction to ACT
workshop in Portland on Friday, October 24, 2008 from 9 am
to 4:30 pm. Check the
ACT in New England page for details or contact us if you
have questions.
- On the
horizon: I will be doing a full-day ACT training, Making
Bold Moves: Enhancing Your Practice with Acceptance &
Commitment Therapy, for the New Hampshire Psychological
Association (NHPA) next March (2009). Check for updates
HERE.
3. Online
Trainings & Distance Learning. These trainings are not
exactly in New England, but they are available to New
Englanders.
-
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven Hayes.
This training is available online through Psychotherapy
Networker and includes CEs.
- Russ
Harris, MD is offering an online course on ACT called
ACT in a Nutshell. The e-course is described as "a
unique ten week e-course for professionals, that teaches you
how to deliver ACT simply, quickly and effectively." Russ
has other e-courses scheduled for release in June and August
of 2008. Click
HERE for details.
4.
Online Audio Programs. Another great resource for distance
learning is the
website for the Association for Contextual Behavioral
Science (ACBS). The site includes both
video (requires login) and
audio programs free to members of ACBS. Remember, ACBS has
a policy of
values-based dues, meaning that you pay only what you think
the membership is worth to you (as low as $1). For this fee,
you get access to a great deal of useful content, including
these audio files. (Note: Some of the online content can
be accessed on the web without joining ACBS—you just need to
find it; see below) In this issue of the e-newsletter, I will
highlight a few of the audio programs currently listed on the
ACBS site (full list
here):
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6 ACT Conversations. This is a six-session
e-learning program hosted by Julian McNally at RMIT
University in Melbourne, Australia. The sessions are
offered through the Counselling Service at RMIT and are
designed to facilitate “emotion intelligence skills” among
its students.
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A Clincian’s Guide to Stimulus Control by Kelly
Wilson. This recorded lecture by Kelly Wilson was for an
online learning community called Practice Ground.
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ACT in Early Intervention for Psychosis by Eric
Morris, Joseph Oliver, Louise Johns, Majella Byrne & Ellen
Craig. Details at the ACBS site. The abstract for this
talk describes the program as “helping first episode clients
to recover from psychosis through the development of a more
mindful approach toward unusual experiences and critical
appraisals, and committing to values-based actions.” This
presentation occurred at the recent ACT Summer Institute
(SI4) in Chicago and details the program and preliminary
research on this topic.
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Functionally Speaking: A Third Wave Podcast hosted
by DJ Moran. Four episodes of the podcast can be accessed
from
DJ’s blog or through
this page. According to the website, “This podcast will
present material about modern cognitive-behavior therapy,
clinical behavior analysis, mindfulness, and other related
topics.”
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Introduction to Defusion by Jason Luoma. This
two-part presentation provides theory and useful clinical
direction on using cognitive defusion, one aspect of ACT
that can be readily learned and applied early in one’s use
of ACT in-session with clients.
- Several
interviews with Steven Hayes are available on the
ACT Audio page and provide a nice introduction to ACT.
5. Other
Trainings. Another place to find ACT trainings is at
conferences that cater to behavioral and cognitive-behavioral
therapists. The
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) annual
conference in November often has conference workshops or
pre-conference institutes on ACT, so keep your eyes on this
opportunity. ABCT will be in Orlando, Florida this year. The
preliminary schedule includes an invited address, The Roots
of Compassion, by Steven Hayes on Friday of that weekend,
and a
Master Clinician Series, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
for Anxiety Disorders, by John P. Forsyth and Georg H.
Eifert. It is likely that there will be other ACT programming
at the conference; check the ABCT conference schedule online as
it develops. Several other events in the Master Clinician
Series include prominent figures in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
(DBT) and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP).
**Reminder:
The full listing of ACT trainings nationwide and worldwide is
available at the
ACBS site.**
6. Next
annual ACT/RFT event. The next large ACT/RFT gathering will
be an international gathering. The 3rd World
Conference on ACT, RFT, and Contextual Behavioral Science will
be in Summer 2009 in Enschede (pronounced EN-sha-day),
The Netherlands. Check the
ACBS site for details closer to the event.
Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed the update. Please send
me your thoughts and feedback. Feel free to forward this to
anyone you know to be interested in ACT.
Sincerely,
Joel
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Joel Guarna, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
25 Middle St
Portland, ME 04101
207-272-8500
www.whitepinepsych.com
Email:
joel@actinmaine.com
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