Research Summaries

This page includes links to research summaries that are posted throughout the website. Please contact the site administrator if there are additional references or resources not included that would fit in one of the posted lists. The "ACT Handout" attached to this page is sometimes is more up to date in some areas (it is hard to keep all these pages up to date)

• ACT/RFT Reader Update. This page includes a list of recent ACT/RFT publications with brief summaries for each article.

• Outcome Studies. Includes a reference list of published ACT outcome studies.

• Effectiveness Studies. Includes a reference list of published ACT effectiveness studies.

• Case Studies. Includes a reference list of published ACT case studies.

• Correlational studies. Includes a reference list of published correlational studies with ACT-relevant measures.

• Experimental Psychopathology and Component Studies. Includes a reference list of published experimental psychopathology studies related to the ACT model and analogue/component studies using ACT treatment components.

• RFT Studies. Includes a reference list of published RFT studies.

• Non-Empirical Articles & Chapters. Includes a reference list of published non-empirical articles and book chapters related to ACT and RFT.

• Articles Describing the Link Between RFT and ACT. Includes a list of articles discussing the relationship between RFT and ACT.

• ACT with Children, Adolescents & Parents. Includes a summary of ACT research with children, adolescents and parents by Amy Murrell and Andrew Scherbarth.

• State of the ACT Evidence. This page includes an excel file listing effect sizes for ACT research studies up to 2005 as well as an updated power point presentation on the state of the ACT evidence from the Summer Institute in 2008.

• Studies Underway That We Know About. Includes a partial list of ongoing ACT studies that have not yet been published.

• Articles comparing ACT to CBT. Includes a list of articles discussing the relationship of ACT to CBT.

• Published Criticisms of ACT. Includes a reference list of published criticisms of ACT.

• Negative Results. This page includes information on ACT research failures.