Mindfulness and Psychosis – BABCP 2008
At the 2008 BABCP National Conference held in Edinburgh, Amy McArthur, Gordon Mitchell and I led a half-day workshop on “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychosis”. The workshop represented a...
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Behind the Scenes: the UK & Ireland ACT/ CBS conference 2013
One of the best things to happen last year was seeing the UK and Ireland ACT/CBS conference take shape, and then finally run in November 2013. With over 200 delegates attending each day over the four...
View ArticleStarting your own ACT peer supervision group
A challenge for UK therapists learning to do Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is access to supervision. Outside of working at the specialist clinical and research centres that focus on ACT or...
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The building blocks of empathy, mindfulness and compassion: paving the way...
The infinite chessboard… a hierarchical Self as Observer? Last Friday I was fortunate to hear Louise McHugh speak at UCL about the bottom-up approach of Relational Frame Theory (RFT) to understanding...
View ArticlePsychological flexibility and nonjudgemental acceptance in voice hearers –...
Great to have this paper (the first from my PhD) out in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry: Psychological flexibility and nonjudgemental acceptance in voice hearers: relationships...
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Why don’t therapists use exposure? And how psychological flexibility can help.
Exposure* is one of the most important and effective components in cognitive behavioural therapies for anxiety disorders, supported by decades of research. And yet it is under-used in clinical...
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Four ways Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help people struggling with...
Feeling on edge while walking down an empty street at night; thinking you are being gossiped about at work; feeling like you need to be on guard around certain people… Worrying that others are...
View ArticleLinkFest! August 2014
I regularly tweet new and interesting papers relevant to clinical psychology and my interests. These are the cool papers and links from August 2014. Follow me on Twitter for a daily update! Acceptance...
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The Origins of a Worldwide Contextual Community: Steve Hayes on ACBS
In a recent blog post, Steve Hayes describes the origins of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), the scientific organisation that promotes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT),...
View ArticleLinkFest! January 2015
Papers most-clicked recently from my Twitter account. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy etc A Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy http://j.mp/1xRjRoj Acceptance and...
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How to make the most of clinical supervision as a psychologist
It is the start of internal placement for a new cohort of provisional psychologists at my university. I prepared the following tips to help trainees know what to expect, and prepare for, their first...
View ArticleHow to do Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in groups: the Passengers on the...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy frequently involves engaging participants in experiential exercises and metaphors. These metaphors can really have impact when they are acted out, instead of simply...
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What is it that you care about? Online Values Exercises and Videos
What is it that you care about? And what do you want your life to stand for? These are pretty typical questions asked when you are engaged in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. The choices and actions...
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Playing it safe: why therapists don’t do exposure
Therapy involves lots of decisions. Which interventions are introduced by the therapist – and when – can be influenced by a number of factors. Recent studies suggest some of this decision making is to...
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LinkFest! Top 10 links – October 2015
The top ten most-clicked links from my Twitter account in October 2015: 1] Steve Hayes discusses the future of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – The Situation Has Clearly Changed: So What Are We Going to...
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Wearing It Differently: Talking about ACT for psychosis, clinical psychology,...
I recently had the privilege of being interviewed for “We All Wear It Differently”, a podcast for early career psychologists. Amy Felman, the enthusiastic host, created the podcast so that...
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LinkFest! Top 10 Links – December 2015
The top ten most-clicked links from my Twitter account in December 2015: 1] Evaluations of self-referential thoughts and their association with components of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy...
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How to run Acceptance and Commitment Therapy groups for people with psychosis...
Excellent to have an “in practice” paper published in the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science: Butler, L., Johns, L.C., Byrne, M., Joseph, C., O’Donoghue, E., Jolley, S., Morris, E.M. and Oliver,...
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clinical RFT is here, and now – A review of “Mastering the Clinical...
“Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention” was published in late 2015 by Guilford Press. The book’s authors, Matt Villatte, Jennifer Villatte, and Steven Hayes, have produced, in...
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Building a life that is rich, fulfilling and fun – Joe Oliver on “ACTivate...
Joe Oliver, co-author of ACTivate Your Life, was recently interviewed on the Open Forwards podcast. The interview was hosted by Jim Lucas (founder and managing director of Open Forwards, a consultancy...
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