full day workshop

INTRODUCTION TO ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY –ACT- APPLIED TO SEVERAL DISORDERS
Carmen Luciano, Univerity Almería, Spain

AC Hotel Room: Montjuic

Acceptance and Commithment Therapy is a contextual therapy in the third wave of cognitive therapy which explains psychopathology in the context of the culture and the experimentally based characteristics of human language. It has been applied to several disorders and found similarly effective in short as cognitive therapy and more effective in follow-up and severe cases. It has proved effective in individual and group interventions and with long and brief protocols in areas other than clinical. ACT is based in the modern behavioral approach to Language and Cognition known and Relational Frame Theory and its rationale and clinical methods are partially based in a number of basic research studies. This research area is actually being very productive to provide evidence of the specific clinical methods and measures.

Carmen Luciano, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology with main interest in basic and applied research in Language and Cognition. She has conducted a high number of researh studies along the years in clinical problems and designs brief ACT protocols as well as basic research concerning ACT strategies as well as ACT clinical methods. She has been and it is the actual leader of several Nacional and Autonomic funded projects concerning basic and applied ACT research.  She has published over 100 papers and several books, some of them on ACT.

Key References:
Hayes, S.C., Stroshal, K.D. & Wilson, K. (1999). Acceptance and Comm ithment Therapy. Plenum Press. New York.  
Wilson, K. & Luciano, C. (2002). Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso. Un tratamiento conductual orientado a los valores. Pirámide. Madrid.  
Hayes, S.C.& Strosahl, K.D. (2004). A practical guide to Acceptance and Commithment Therapy, Springer-Verlag. New Cork.
Luciano, C. (2001). Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso. Libro de casos. Promolibro.Valencia
Dalh, J., Wilson, K., Luciano, C., & Hayes, S.C. (2005). Acceptance and Commithment Therapy for chronic pain. Context Press. Reno