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Adapting and implementing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy groups to support personal recovery of adults living with psychosis: a qualitative study of facilitators’ experiences [paper]

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It is excellent to share our latest paper on ACT for psychosis groups, published online in the journal Psychosis.  This paper shares what it is like to set up a group program that offers Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for psychosis in public mental health settings.  We report on the experiences of facilitators who adapted the …

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Group acceptance and commitment therapy for patients and caregivers in psychosis services: Feasibility of training and a preliminary randomized controlled evaluation [paper]

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Very pleased to have this paper published, summarising the evaluation of group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for people with psychosis and caregivers. [pre-print here] This study was conducted in Lambeth & Southwark community mental health teams in the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom. The study is funded by a grant from …

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Recovery ACT: feasibility & acceptability of Group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for people with psychosis (ABCT 2020)

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Our team had the fortunate opportunity to present a paper at the ABCT 54th Annual Convention on group ACT for people with psychosis. Thanks to Dr Lyn Ellett from Royal Holloway University of London for organising the symposium on “Mindfulness and Acceptance Based Approaches for Psychosis: Current Evidence and Future Directions” where I presented the …

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Top 10 links for 2016 

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Another year of tweeting the latest, and the most progressive, research in contextual behavioural science (CBS), along with “fellow traveller” approaches (CBT, mindfulness, metacognition, behaviour analysis etc).  Some trends over the past year:  The rate of CBS publications has increased, particularly for randomised controlled trials of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. It is hard to keep …

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LinkFest! January 2015

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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 Commitment Therapy for adults who stutter: Psychosocial adjustment and speech fluency http://j.mp/16p76pp Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Treatment for Scrupulosity in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder http://j.mp/1y9NHl9 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy …

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Mindfulness and Psychosis – BABCP 2008

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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 distillation of our understanding of the field currently, and some of the clinical methods that we use for running groups and doing individual therapy in …

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Psychosis from a psychological perspective

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I recently sat in on a presentation about psychological interventions for serious mental illness at an international conference, where the audience was mostly made up of US health professionals working in psychiatric settings. What was interesting (or to be more accurate, disconcerting) for me were the number of comments from the audience expressing surprise that …

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Early Psychosis

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Recently, with my colleague Joe Oliver, we presented our work (at the ACT Summer Institute IV) on developing acceptance and commitment therapy to help young people recovering from a first episode of psychosis. We titled our presentation “ACT Early”, and described the work we have been doing in developing groups and individual therapy for this …

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Contextual Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies

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I have a terrible confession to make about my background as a clinical psychologist: I trained as a behaviourist. Why is this “terrible”? Well, because I now work in the UK, where it seems that behaviourally-oriented clinical psychologists are scarce (at least in my field), and I am a member of the British Association for …

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The “do as I do, not as I say” approach to therapy supervision

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The other week I participated in a training workshop for supervision in cognitive behavioural therapy, which was well-attended by the psychologists in my Trust. It was a useful workshop – with some theory in the morning, going through the (albeit limited) evidence for CBT supervision, and then the afternoon spent doing roleplays of supervision issues …

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