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• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Books from 2019-2020
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is Making Waves in Psychedelic Science
  • Do you ever find yourself getting stuck as a therapist?
  • Podcast Fights Mental Health Stigma Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Books from 2018
  • Introducing ACT With Compassion
  • Values conflicts? Is that a thing?
  • Values: Clarity of Purpose, Crisis not Required
  • New books on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in 2017
  • CEO of Portland Psychotherapy publishes second edition of “Learning ACT”
  • A look at the future of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
  • SUDS vs. Willingness: Values-Based ACT Exposure for OCD
  • Interview with Jenna LeJeune, PhD on Values Work
  • The 5-Minute Guide to ACT: A Visual ACT Elevator Pitch
  • Harnessing the Power of the Therapeutic Relationship
  • Creating a Peer-Led Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Consultation Group: The Portland Model
  • ACT for Social Anxiety – A Great Self-Help Book and Treasure Trove of Resources
  • Treating Skin Picking with Acceptance-Enhanced Behavior Therapy
  • An Alternative to Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD
  • More Avoidant Therapists Are Less Likely to use Exposure in OCD Treatment
  • New RCTs: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is effective for treatment resistant clients
  • An Interview with Steve Hayes during his Portland visit (09/04/2014)
  • A Great Blog Post About Therapist Reluctance to Use Exposure
  • Why Understanding Theory is Important in Conducting Exposure Therapy
  • Using ACT to Guide Exposure-Based Interventions for PTSD
  • Exposure Exercise Brainstorming Worksheet
  • A woman and her voices: The case for a functional contextual view of psychosis.
  • New Study: ACT for Chronic Headache Pain
  • Preparing Clients for Exposure Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Training Clients in Present Moment Awareness and Affect
  • Preparing Clients for Exposure Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Creative Hopelessness through Tug-of-War
  • Preparing Clients for Exposure Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Creative Hopelessness through Finger Traps
  • Exposure Therapy – Information and Resources
  • “What I Be”: A Defusion-Based Art Exhibit
  • ACT for Body Image Difficulties and Disordered Eating
  • Experiential Avoidance and Its Relevance to PTSD
  • How Do You Use Exposure in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
  • Using ACT to target internalized homophobia and self-stigma
  • Contextual Behavioral Exposure: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Exposure

• alternative therapy

  • The medical and mental health community speak out about the dangers of “antipsychotic” drugs and proven, non-drug alternatives

• antipsychotics

  • Do Antipsychotics Help With PTSD? A New VA Study Says, “No”

• Anxiety

  • Is Exposure Practice More Effective in the Morning?
  • An Interview with Michelle Craske, PhD, on “Maximizing Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders”
  • Psychiatry Advisor Informational Page on Trichotillomania
  • What Kind of Exposure Do You Want, Goldilocks?
  • Videos of Exposure Therapy
  • Using TLC to Learn About Hair Trichotillomania
  • Exposure Therapy for Acrophobia—Habituation May Not Matter
  • Great New Book on OCD for Clients
  • Treating Panic Disorder with Comorbidities: Why Focusing on the Panic May Be the Best Option
  • Edna Foa on Prolonged Exposure
  • An Overview of Emotional Processing Theory
  • The Problems with Habituation as an Explanation for Exposure Treatment
  • What is Exposure Therapy and Why Does It Matter?

• App

  • Top 5 Mindfulness Resources

• Body Image

• Books

  • Tailoring Therapy for Gender and Sexual Minority Clients
  • Book Review: Self-Help That Works

• Chronic Pain

• Classes and Workshops for Therapists

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  • Resource Development for Insomnia Treatment
  • 5 Excellent Reasons to Treat Insomnia
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Superior to Antipsychotics for OCD

• Compassion

  • Beauty is the Beast: When love, caring, and kindness are experienced as threatening

• Depression

  • First Randomized Trial of Psilocybin Assisted Therapy for Depression!
  • Ketamine May Alleviate Bipolar Depression, Too

• Diversity

  • Why Google+ is Good for Therapists: Respect for Diversity

• DSM

  • British Psychological Society Publishes Guidelines on Hoarding
  • Renouncing “reparative therapy”: A giant in the field admits his humanity
  • PTSD Without Trauma? A Scientific American article examines some controversies about diagnostic criteria for PTSD
  • Changing PTSD Criteria for the DSM-5

• emotion processing theory

  • A Review of the Research Supporting (and Not Supporting) Inhibitory Learning Strategies

• Evidence-based Psychotherapy

  • A Meta-Analysis Comparing Psychotherapy and Medication for OCD
  • Uncharted waters: Expanding a psychotherapy practice in uncertain times.
  • Counseling Today article on the ongoing debate about the role of evidence-based practice
  • Defending behavioral science
  • “Evidence-Based Psychotherapy” versus “Scientifically Oriented Psychotherapy”
  • What is Science-Based Psychotherapy?

• Evidence-based Therapist

  • Marketing For the Evidence-Based Therapist

• Experiential avoidance

• Exposure

  • Interoceptive Exposure in OCD Treatment
  • Study Suggests Clients Don’t Dropout of ERP for OCD More than for Any Other Treatment
  • Shorter Imaginal Exposure Sessions as Effective as Longer Exposure for PTSD
  • Sharing Traumatic Experiences in Group-Based Exposure Therapy for PTSD
  • Does War Zone Impact Treatment Response for Veterans with PTSD?
  • Motivating Clinicians to Learn and Use Exposure Therapy
  • An Overview of the Emotional Processing Theory
  • Rape Survivors Who Rely on Avoidant Coping May Respond Better to Exposure-Based Treatment

• forgiveness

  • Forgiveness Therapies: Dangerous or Healing?

• Forgiveness therapies

• Functional Analytic Psychotherapy

• Gender Nonconforming

  • New resource: a dictionary of terms commonly used in transgender and gender nonconforming communities
  • APA’s new guidelines for psychological practice with transgender and gender nonconforming people: A brief summary

• Google+

• Habituation

• Headaches

• Hoarding

• homophobia

• inhibitory learning

• Insomnia

• Institutional Review Board

  • Creation of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Practice-Based Research

• IRB

• LGBTQ

  • To those who feel afraid or hurt after the election

• Marginalization

  • Resources for self- and other-care in difficult times

• Marketing

• Medication

• Mental Health

• Mindfulness

• News

  • Portland Psychotherapy 2019 Year in Review
  • Portland Psychotherapy 2018 Year in Review

• OCD

• Panic Disorder

• Practice-based Research

  • Portland Psychotherapy’s Clinical-Research Social Business Model Published in APA Journal – Psychology Research and Practice

• Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

  • What Do Licensing Boards Think of Psychedelic Integration Therapy?
  • Measure 109 & 110: Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Is Here! (But Not Until 2023)
  • Understanding Risks in Practicing Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration Therapy: Advice for Clinicians

• Psychedelic Science

• Psychoanalysis

  • Enough already: Let’s move on from meta-analyses of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and do the hard work of quality studies

• Psychosis

• Psychotherapy

• PTSD

  • Perpetrator Closeness Matters When Considering Effects of Trauma

• Research

  • Newest Data on Shame and Drinking Published at Western Psychological Association Conference
  • Reducing Shame in Addictions: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

• Resources

• Resources for Therapists

  • Tips for Therapists Making the Change to ICD-10

• Schizophrenia

• Science-based psychotherapy

• Self-criticism

• Self-help

• self-stigma

• Shame

• Skin picking

• Social Anxiety

• Social Business Model

• Social Justice

• Therapies

• Transgender

• Trauma

• Trichotillomania

• Values