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Podcast: Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Episode: Dr. Robyn Walser, Ph.D: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Description: Comments or feedback? Send us a text! Borrowing heavily from Eastern psychology, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is currently among the most popular CBT approaches to a variety of human challenges. Dr. Robyn Walser, Ph.D., a prominent Clinical Psychologist who has published extensively around ACT in a variety of clinical contexts joins host Dr. Pete Kelly, PhD. for a discussion of the origins of ACT, the six core components of ACT with a special focus on willingness, ACT in the context of culturally bound narratives related to psychological pain, ACT as framework for guiding the psychotherapeutic process i...