ACT Presentation Materials

This page will be the parent page for ACBS members to post/attach presentations (e.g., Powerpoint Slides), individual slides or figures, handouts, or related materials. This will also allow the community as a whole to provide feedback on the materials, offer constructive criticism, suggest revisions, and improve our collected effort to effectively educate others about ACT. If you have materials you are willing to put into the "public domain" so others may use them, you can do it here.

ACT 2-day Training

Presented by Steve Hayes in Boston.

ACT Colloquium

Colloquium presented by Steve Hayes in 2005. Includes Ann Branstetter's data on psychological adjustment among cancer patients.

ACT for Anxiety- Kenneth Cole

Presented by Kenneth Cole, PhD, of the VA Long Beach Health Care System in April 2007

ACT for Anxiety-Gary Powell

Presented by Gary Powell, Trinity School Staff Twilight Talks Session,
6 February 2006

ACT for Chronic Pain

Presented by Laura Meyers, PhD, Minneapolis VAMC

ACT for PTSD

Two powerpoint presentations to psychology interns in Spring 2006 by Kevan McCutcheon, PhD, Center for Stress Recovery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

ACT Gone Wild

The Togus, VA Intensive Outpatient Program's approach to ACT in groups is presented. It reviews a bit of the old four-week ACT program and then presents the new one-week program. Values work runs throughout the program. Diffusion from struggling with suffering moves across four themes. It also includes some short videos of Dr. Polk's colleagues, Dr.s Agee and Hambright, presenting a bit of the program.

Presented by Kevin Polk, Ph.D. at SI-3; Houston, TX, USA; July 2007

ACT Oceania II - The History of ACT and RFT

Powerpoint presentation on history of ACT and RFT presented by Rob Zettle at Christchurch, NZ.

ACT Oceania II--ACT with Depression

Powerpoint on ACT with Depression workshop presented by Rob Zettle at Christchurch, NZ.

ACT State of the Evidence

Originally presented by Steve Hayes at ACT SI 2; Philadelphia, PA, USA 2005. Updated July 2008.

ACT with Couples

This is a presentation called:

The Application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Couples in Distress

Presented by Casey Capps and Ragnar Storaasli

May 30th, 2006
ABA Atlanta

Powerpoint presentation attached below.

ACT with Depression

PowerPoint presented by Rob Zettle of Wichita State University at ACT SI-3; Houston, Texas, USA; July 2007.

ACT with Parents and Families

Presented by J.T. Blackledge, Ph.D. on enhancing parent training with ACT.

ACT:Model and Application

Presented by Steve Hayes at NIMH in 2005. Includes overview of ACT processes and outcome data.

Anxiety and Forgiveness

The two links below are to introductory ACT-based presentations on Forgiveness and Anxiety that I gave to staff and students at the UK school where I work.

Please feel free to use/amend/distribute them for non-commercial purposes. Thanks to the ACT artists and conceptualisers of the illustrations used therein.

http://www.cyberpauken.com/forgiveness.ppt

http://www.cyberpauken.com/Anxiety.ppt

Downloadable files below.

Gary

ContextaFlex: Connecting FC, RFT and the Hexaflex

A PowerPoint presentation to show beginners the importance of the underlying philosophy (functional contextualism) and theory (RFT) behind the practice of ACT.

Presented by:
Jerold Hambright, Ph.D., Kevin Polk, Ph.D., John Agee, Ph.D.
Veterans Affairs Hospital, Togus, Maine, USA

From Mechanism to Functionalism - or: What is Avoided in Emotional Avoidance?

PowerPoint presented by Rainer Sonntag of Olpe, Germany at WorldCon II; London, England; July 2006

Intro to ACT_Portland, Maine_Guarna_&_Kubik

Full day training on 6/20/08 by Joel Guarna and Elizabeth Kubik.

Introduction to ACT- Charles Morse

Presented by:
Charles Morse, MA, LMHC,
Director of WPI Student Development & Counseling

Introduction to ACT-Joel Guarna

Intro to ACT Presentation to the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology, March 2005, by Joel Guarna and Steve Quinn (staff psychologists at the VA Boston).

Introduction to ACT-Julian McNally

The PowerPoint is an abbreviated form of Steve Hayes' presentation on the Hexaflex. The only original material is in the speaker's notes (under the slides and in the attached Word document) and I think the 'Chocolate' slide is original.
Julian McNally

Trans-Diagnostic Approach to Problems in Living

Presented by Kelly Wilson at Boystown.

What is this Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?

Presented in Australia by Mary Sawyer.

Tips on how to add content to this section

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Suggestions on adding to the ACT Presentation Materials section:

(a) For the sake of keeping this organized, I would recommend using the option for "add child page" to this main page instead of adding as comment/reply. Child pages are listed in a nice list that is easy to read and access. Comments can get quite chaotic. Also, the "add child page" format allows others to make comments and give feedback that will stick to the appropriate page/presentation instead of getting jumbled to the point where you will not know which comments refer to which postings.

(b) Then, give your new page a short, descriptive title (e.g., "General ACT Talk, Boston 2005").

(c) Write whatever description/comments/requests for feedback that you want directly on the new child page.

(d) You can then either: (i) Provide a link to the location where the presentation/materials are located (on or off site) or (ii) Attach the actual presentation/materials at bottom (if you do this, be sure to mention "materials attached at bottom" as attachments are easy to miss with the format here). Personally, I would encourage folks to do (ii) for ease of downloading.

(e) Another option: Link from here to material in your blog. Even if you opt to leave your posted presentations in your personal blog, perhaps you could add a child page here, inform members you have stuff in your blog, and then link to it by adding the URL to your child page. For example, if Steve wanted to link us to presentations in his blog, he would (a) add a child page, (b) title it "Steve's Presentations," (c) Write: Hey gang, I have some presentations you can use in my blog. You can find them at... on the page, and then (d) provide the link on the next line: "http://www.contextualpsychology.org/en/blog/steven_hayes"
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