Re: Efficacy of Therapies and Courage to Use Your Own Reason [3 Attachments]

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Attach is comparison of CBT and ACT.  Again both work but differently.  For many of us on this list, we take things from both.  I think that can be effective because you can tailor design your own " therapy " or philosophy that might be most effective for you.

 

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Hi all,Attached are three PDFs.  I've been thinking the past few hours about what is the efficacy of ACT and REBT and other therapies on different things and I've looked at several papers on this.  I attached two studies here because they seem similar in a way and about the efficacy of ACT, Systematic Desensitization on math anxiety and one paper on efficacy of REBT on test anxiety.  It's seems they are all work.  Interesting that perhaps they work differently.  I have quite a bit of reservation about all therapies, not just ACT, but other 3rd waves and CBT and REBT.  And I have a little bit of skepticism about the studies. 

The other PDF attached is Kant on What is Enlightenment?  In it he states " Have courage to use your own reason! " .   This is something I try to do.  Spending too much time in conversation on this list on ACT/FC/RFT or reading and studying the ACT books or talking to a therapist can be counter productive.  Better to act and live my life using my own reasoning.   So instead of living my life according ACT/FC/RFT, I want to take what I learned in ACT/FC/RFT and incorporate parts of it into my own reasoning and philosophy and use that to live my life.

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Forman_et_al_in_press_ACT_v_CBT_RCT.pdf

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This is the biggest and best controlled comparison of ACT and traditional CBTyet conducted. These articles are hard reads for normal folks but the bottom like is that ACT (including values-based exposure --

which list readers know I recommend regularly anyway)did somewhat better than best of breed CBT for a range of anxiety disorders.It was done by a team at UCLA that is very well known in the CBT community

and many of the CBT methods they used are ones they had a big role indeveloping and testing historically so this was not a rigged comparison.In fact Craske & crew deserves credit for courage and integrity in publishing these data

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If you have any questions about ACT or RFT (articles, AAQ information etc), please first check the vast resources at website of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS): www.contextualpsychology.org. You have to register on the site to download things, but the cost is up to your own values.

If you are a professional or student and want to be part of the world wide ACT discussion or RFT discussions, join the ACT list: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy/join

or the RFT list:http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/relationalframetheory/joinIf you are a member of the public reading ACT self-help books (e.g., " Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life " etc) and want to be part of that conversation go to: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ACT_for_the_Public/join

 

[Attachment(s) from Bauer included below]

Hi all,Attached are three PDFs.  I've been thinking the past few hours about what is the efficacy of ACT and REBT and other therapies on different things and I've looked at several papers on this.  I attached two studies here because they seem similar in a way and about the efficacy of ACT, Systematic Desensitization on math anxiety and one paper on efficacy of REBT on test anxiety.  It's seems they are all work.  Interesting that perhaps they work differently.  I have quite a bit of reservation about all therapies, not just ACT, but other 3rd waves and CBT and REBT.  And I have a little bit of skepticism about the studies. 

The other PDF attached is Kant on What is Enlightenment?  In it he states " Have courage to use your own reason! " .   This is something I try to do.  Spending too much time in conversation on this list on ACT/FC/RFT or reading and studying the ACT books or talking to a therapist can be counter productive.  Better to act and live my life using my own reasoning.   So instead of living my life according ACT/FC/RFT, I want to take what I learned in ACT/FC/RFT and incorporate parts of it into my own reasoning and philosophy and use that to live my life.

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Arch et al CBT ACT mixed anxiety disorder JCCP.pdf