For a scientist committed to empirical evaluation, it is important
to show that materials can be helpful outside the context of a
therapeutic relationship, so, generally speaking, we know that a
book like this is likely to be helpful. Several of the specific
components in this book have been tested, sometimes in a form very
similar to the way you are contacting this material. For example,
several studies evaluated the impact of short passages drawn nearly
word for word from ACT materials (very similar to what you've read)
that were recorded on audiotape, read aloud by a research
assistant, or were presented to the participants to read.
Typically, these studies focused on the ability of participants to
tolerate distress of various kinds, such as gas-induced panic-like
symptoms, extreme cold, extreme heat, or electric shock. A few
studies looked at the distress produced by difficult or intrusive
cognitions, or clinically relevant anxiety. Some were done with
patients, others with normal populations. The specific ACT
components that have been examined so far include defusion,
acceptance, mind-fulness, and values. The techniques included
exercises, metaphors, and rationales, including several that can be
found in this book (e.g., word repetition, physicalizing, leaves on
a stream, the quicksand metaphor, the Chinese finger trap metaphor,
and so forth). Thus, it seems fair to say that it is known that at
least some of what you've read can be helpful at least some of the
time outside of the context of a therapeutic relationship, when
presented in a form similar to the form in which you have contacted
this material.....Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., is University of Nevada
Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada,
Reno. He is author of more than 350 scientific articles and
twenty-seven books, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and
Relational Frame Theory - two books that significantly develop the
concepts on which Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life is based.
His research explores the nature of human language and cognition
and their application to the understanding and alleviation of human
suffering. In 1992, the Institute for Scientific Information
reported Hayes among the highest-impact psychologists in the world
during the years 1986-90 based on the citation impact of his
writings. He is past-president of the Association for Advancement
of Behavior Therapy, the American Association of Applied and
Preventive Psychology, and Division Twenty-Five of the American
Psychological Association. He was the first Secretary-Treasurer of
the American Psychological Society. He is the recipient of the Don
F. Hake Award for Exemplary Contributions to Basic Behavioral
Research and Its Applications from Division 25 of the American
Psychological Association. In 1999, US Health and Human Services
Secretary Donna Shalala appointed him to a four-year term on the
National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse. Spencer Smith is a writer
and editor based in Santa Rosa, CA. He is coauthor of The Memory
Doctor.
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