WC8 Powerpoints / Handouts

We have collected many of the powerpoint presentations and handouts from presenters at the ACBS World Conference VIII, which took place June 21-24, in Reno, Nevada. These are available for download for any current, paid ACBS member. It can cost you as little as $10 to join, so please consider it! Find out how to join and learn about the benefits of membership.

• ACT and Trauma: New Data and Directions (Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Group Treatment for Uniformed Services Professionals with Complex Trauma) - Bastien, Hermann, & Moore
• ACT as a Brief Intervention - Strosahl
• ACT-Based Family Intervention for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa - Merwin, Timko, & Zucker
• ACT Based Preventive Programming on College Campuses - Levin
• ACT Based Preventive Programming on College Campuses - Morse
• ACT for Anxious Children, Adolescents, and Families - Coyne & Davis
• ACT for Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment of Disordered Eating - Sandoz, Manduchi, & Presti
• ACT for Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment of Disordered Eating (Anorexia case) - Sandoz, Manduchi, & Presti
• ACT for Spiritual Development - Robb
• ACT for the Spectrum of Body-Image and Disordered Eating-Related Concerns: Theory, Assessment, and
  Practice (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Eating Disorders: Clinical Practice with a complex case) - Manduchi
• ACT for young Adults (16-28 year olds): ACT used in group format as prevention or an early intervention aimed towards psychological ill health and stress - Livheim
• ACT for young Adults (16-28 year olds): ACT used in group format as prevention or an early intervention aimed towards psychological ill health and stress - Livheim (Handout)
• ACT Group Treatment for Health Anxiety - Eilenberg & Frostholm
• ACT in Practice: Case Conceptualization in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy - Bach & Moran
• ACT on Living and Dying - Gregg
• ACT with Challenging Patients - Strosahl
• ACT with Children & Families (2-day workshop) - Coyne
• ACT with Depression - Zettle
• ACT with Students and Educators (Evaluation of an Acceptance & Mindfulness Training for Elementary Staff, Educators, & Administrators) - Woidneck
• ACT with Young People - L. Hayes
• Applied ACT and RFT processes relevant to self-compassion - Benjamin Schoendorff
• The Art and Science of Thought Suppression - Wegner
• Assessment of Mindfulness and Acceptance Processes in ACT (Measuring cognitive fusion and defusion in
  depression using a modified Dysfunctional Attitudes Scale) - Kearney
• Assessment of Mindfulness and Acceptance Processes in ACT (Mindfulness and Experiential Avoidance as
  Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Avoidance Symptom Severity) - Thompson
• The Basic Behavior Analytic Principles of Psychotherapy - W. Follette, Callaghan, Darrow, & Bonow
• Building a Firm Foundation: Intervention Development from the Bottom Up - Hayes, Wegner, Gross, & Kashdan
• Developing behavioral measures of ACT/RFT processes: An international lab meeting (IRAPing our Way to Psychological Flexibility) - Drake
• Developing behavioral measures of ACT/RFT processes: An international lab meeting (Testing the Impact of a Brief Acceptance, Mindfulness and Values Intervention on Multiple Features of Task Persistence) - Levin
• Doing ACT Research: An interactive primer for beginners - Lillis
• Doing ACT while still recalling your A-B-Cs - Robb
• Eating Dialog: An Academic program for physician and dietitian - Kalter
• An Engaging Partnership: Integration of ACT and the Motivational Interviewing Model - Dempsey
• Enhancing Psychotherapy With Values: Practical Tools & Exercises - Dahl & Plumb
• Enhancing Psychotherapy with Values (Handouts) - Dahl & Plumb
• An Experiential Journey Through the Matrix - Polk, Webster, & Schoendorff (Handout)
• Finding Hope Inside Creative Hopelessness - J. Villatte
• From Basic Science to Clinical Application: Empirical Advances in ACT Research with Children and Families (ACT-Relevant Constructs in Child Therapy Process: The Role of Child Experiential Avoidance, Willingness, and Safety Seeking Behaviors in a Family-Based CBT for Young Children with OCD) - Davis, Coyne, & Martinez
• From Basic Science to Clinical Application: Empirical Advances in ACT Research with Children and Families (Experiential Avoidance of Parenting Questionnaire (EAP): Development Study) - Morrill, Crowe, & Cordova
• From Basic Science to Clinical Application: Empirical Advances in ACT Research with Children and Families
  (Maternal Avoidant Emotion Regulation and its impact on Emotion Regulation in Early Childhood) - Bendezu
• From Basic Science to Clinical Application: Empirical Advances in ACT Research with Children and Families
  (Maternal Emotion Regulatory Strategy Mediates Maternal Depression and Child Internalizing Problems) - Thompson
• Functional Eclecticism: Four Conversations about Complex Behavior (Fooling around with Definitions of Psychological Flexibility) - Drake
• Implementing ACT Online: Past and Future Projects (Smoking cessation and prevention of mental
  health problems: Discussing two ongoing projects) - Levin
• Improving CBT: Problems and Prospects - T. Wilson
• Improving Clinicians' Empathy Skills with ACT - Villatte, Monestes, & Vilardaga
• Interventions to Foster Resilience and Psychological Flexibility in Non-Clinical Populations (ACT on stress: The efficacy of ACT for reducing stress and improving the quality of therapy in clinical psychology interns) - Stafford-Brown & Pakenham
• Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis - Gallop
• Introduction to RFT for Clinicians (Pre-Conference Workshop) - Torneke & Blackledge
• Linking RFT to the Hexaflex - M. Villatte & Monestes
• The Matrix and the Art of Improvisation - Polk & Hambright (Handout)
• Mindfulness and Acceptance Processes in Relation to Weight-Related Difficulties and Diabetes (Experiential avoidance and obesity: A random population study of adult women) - Horwath
• Mindfulness and Acceptance Processes in Relation to Weight-Related Difficulties and Diabetes (The role of thought believability in the relationship between depression, diabetes, and stress) - Schmidt, Ward, Gregg, Tarango, & Vanveghel
• New Directions in ACT for Addiction (Experiential Avoidance and Self-Stigma in Addiction: Two New Measures) - Luoma
• New Directions in ACT for Addiction (Telephone-delivered Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) for adult
  smoking cessation: A feasibility study) - Bricker
• Perspectives on Applied Clinical Processes Involved in Compassion- Focused Psychotherapy Techniques in
  ACT (Relationships among Emotional Schemas, Psychological Flexibility, Dispositional Mindfulness, and Emotion Regulation) - Silberstein
• Perspectives on Perspective Taking (Associations among Deictic Relational Responding, Empathy, Experiential Avoidance and Social Anhedonia in a sample of College Students) - Vilardaga
• Perspectives on Perspective Taking (Developing a Spiritual Invetory) - Gird
• Perspectives on Perspective Taking (Enhancing Self as Context and Pain Tolerence) - Carrasquillo
• Pillars and Posts and Arches, Oh Boy - Strosahl
• Psychosis and ACT (Preliminary results from the Lifengage trial - a randomised controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy for medication-resistant psychosis) - Farhall
• Psychosis and ACT (Rule-Governed Behavior as delusion maintenance factor in schizophrenia) - Monestes, Stewart, & M. Villatte
• Reconstructing Measurement Theory From a Contextualist Perspective - Wilson, Bond, Ciarrochi, Hayes, & Bordieri
• Research and Therapeutic Application in the Context of Valued Living - Nassar, Flynn, & Slater
• RFT Basis of ACT and Third Wave CBT - McHugh, Stewart, Hooper, & Sandoz (Handout)
• The Road Ahead: Developing an ACT research and publication strategy consistent with Contextual Behavioral
  Science - Hayes
• The Shaping Game: Using DBT, FAP & ACT for clients with chronic distress - Georgescu
• Speaking Across Islands: Building Communication Between ACT and Other Approaches to Clinical Psychology - M. Villatte, Blackledge, Ciarrochi, & Robb
• Single Case Designs for Clinicians: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice - J. Villatte
• Standing Your Ground: Why Philosophy Matters for Clinicians - Steinwachs, Buckner, & Heerman
• Stress Less, Live More - Blonna
• Stress Less, Live More - Blonna (Handout)
• Supporting self-help ACT with email counseling - Schreurs & Fledderus
• Taking it Out of the Box: Multilevel ACT/RFT Applications inside Clinical Behavior Analysis (Improving Social Skills by Building Fluency on Deictic Framing and Relevant Relational Classes) - Newsome
• Toward a contextual neuroscience? - Fletcher
• Toward a contextual neuroscience? - Hayes
• Toward a contextual neuroscience? - Benjamin Schoendorff
• Transformation in Psychotherapy - Ebert
• Transforming The Matrix into a Measure of Psychological Flexibility - Benjamin Schoendorff, Benjamin Putois
• The truth about Functional Contextualism - Hayes, Moderato, Miselli, & Biglan
• Using Acceptance and Commitment Group Training in Vocational Rehabilitation Programs with Special Needs Veterans - Billig, Merladet, & Acord
• Using the Matrix and FAP tools to conceptualize and strengthen the therapeutic relationship in ACT - Benjamin Schoendorff (Handout)
• Values and Willingness: New Strategies to Enhance Willingness and ACT Values Work - McKay
• Values, Verbal Relations, and Compassion: We can do a better job of facing global challenges (plenary) - Hayes
• The Wisdom to Know the Difference - Jeffcoat, Yadavaia, & Hildebrandt