University at Albany, SUNY - John Forsyth
Our lab -- the Anxiety Disorders Research Program (ADRP) -- is about understanding processes that transform normal human thoughts and painful emotions into life shattering problems associated with anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and even problem anger. We focus on these problems to understand human suffering, not as ends in themselves.
The ADRP laboratory has an explicit process-oriented translational focus. Everyone in the lab is involved in basic and applied treatment oriented research with subclinical and clinical populations. We struggle intensely with philosophical and conceptual issues and make efforts to integrate this activity with our basic and applied work. Students are treated as junior colleagues. This is the model. This is the model that paved the way for the early success of behavior therapy. It is a model that is reflected in the collective lab values statement (see attached below) that we, as a group, have developed.
To date, we have focused on understanding the role of excessive thought and emotion regulation in the development, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders. Included here are studies on how emotion regulation transforms normal fear learning and other experiential processes into clinical problems, the measurement of experiential avoidance, acceptance, and defusion. We are now underway with a multisite collaborative project (the UCLA-Albany Study) testing of our new unified treatment protocol -- ACT for Anxiety Disorders -- vs. standard CBT for persons suffering from anxiety disorders.
Our lab also routinely provides consultation and both brief and intensive professional training workshops for professionals interested in learning more about ACT for Anxiety Disorders.
For additional information please contact Dr. John P. Forsyth at the following address:
John P. Forsyth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Faculty Director, Anxiety Disorders Research Program
University at Albany, SUNY
Department of Psychology, SS369
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222 U.S.A.
Ph: (518) 442-4862
Fax: (518) 442-4867
Email: forsyth@albany.edu
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University at Albany, Psychology Department
Acceptance and Mindfulness Books
ACT for Anxiety Disorders OnLine Research
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