ACCEPTANCE & COMMITMENT THERAPY

Singapore Workshops - Post-workshop
(updated 14 Dec 2009)

We can guess from research on workshop style training that by now you will have either incorporated ACT approaches into your clinical work, or you won't have.  Hopefully, you have, but if not, then I invite you to consider the benefits for your clients in doing so.  In the workshop I didn't labour the research that would encourage you to use ACT.  There is just so much support  - over 50 Randomised Controlled Trials, all showing positive results, some quite stunning  - we could spends days just going through this.  If you haven't checked this out for yourself, you can easily do so by clinking the Research Summaries page of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS)website.  From there you can delve further into what ever area interests you. 

If you haven't joined ACBS, then consider giving yourself a Christmas present.  Whatever you pay to join, and it can be whatever you chose, you will be repaid a thousand times over with more resources than you could ever wish for.  The ACT community is amazingly open and generous, but don't take my word for it.  Check out your own experience.   

Something that is ABSOLUTELY FREE is my Newsletter, which will begin in 2010.  Subscribe, and not more than once  a month (never more) you will received a brief email with a link to a Newsletter.  In it there will be a chapter or a paper or two,  some useful client handouts, assessment instruments, treatment tips, a Question and Answer section, advance notice of workshops, and, for light relief, some Therapist Humour, as we all know this job can be stressful at times.  Interested ?  Just send an email to therapist-training-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.au .  Include your name, and which workshop you did and where (ACT / Singapore) and that's it.

 In the workshop we explored the concept of Experiential Avoidance in detail.  You may have read the original paper  , it's a citation classic.  There is a more recent paper (2007) validating the concept which you can read here.

Some of you have contacted me about supervision. If you'd like some assistance, first off, contact me by email so we can arrange a time (my home address is better as I check that daily), and we can then arrange contact.  Do note however that I will be absent from Perth for the periods 17 December 2009 - 4 Jan 2010 and 12 Feb - 15 Mar 2010. 

All the best,

Graham Taylor