41: Russ Harris on ACT, Burnout, and Wellbeing

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

Science, Mental Health, Skinner, Behaviorism, Behaviorconsultant, Aba, Behavioralpsychology, Health & Fitness, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy, Fba, Social Sciences, Verbalbehavior, Bcba, Functionalassessment, Discretetrial

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

So one of my podcasting dreams has now come true! I finally got the chance to interview Russ Harris! If you're not familiar with Russ, he is the best-selling author of The Happiness Trap, and has provided ACT training to over 25,000 health professionals across the globe. In today's episode we discuss the basics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Russ' son's Autism diagnosis and treatment, how to manage stress and burnout, and of course, listener questions. Unfortunately we didn't have time to get to all listener questions, so Russ has agreed to come back for a Round 2. So feel free to leave questions in the comments section below. During the interview, we mentioned several websites, so here are the links: thehappinesstrap.com Imlearningact.com actmindfully.com.au contextualscience.org mataraservices.com The last site there is Simcha Charna's website. He was kind enough to orchestrate an introduction, to which I am grateful. Lastly, here is a link for a PDF of the Choice Point diagram Russ talked about at the beginning of the interview: Russ Harris' Choice Point Special thanks to Chartlytics.com and Operantcoffee.com for sponsoring today's show. To get a Precision Teaching starter package (i.e., some really cool free stuff), go to Chartlytics.com/matt. If you want some awesome coffee that is sustainably produced that happens to be 10% off, go to operantcoffee.com/shop and use the discount code BEHAVIORCOFFEE.

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0:00.0	This is the Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Secoria, session number 41.
0:12.3	Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior analysts.
0:19.6	Now here's your host, Matt Secoria.
0:23.1	Hey, everyone. Welcome to yet another session of the behavioral observations podcast. We are at
0:27.8	Session 41, and I am really excited to bring you this awesome conversation with Dr. Russ
0:35.2	Harris about acceptance and commitment therapy.
0:42.7	But before we get to that, I just wanted to chat a little bit about this awesome experience that I just had.
0:50.5	I just got back from Las Vegas where I attended a two-day workshop called Supercharge your ABA programming with precision teaching.
0:53.7	And it was put on by the folks at Chartlittics. And if you've been listening to the last
0:55.3	couple of episodes, you know that Chartlittics is a sponsor of the Behavioral Observations podcast.
1:00.9	And so as I've been talking to you guys about, I've been really wanted to learn what all the fuss is
1:06.3	about precision teaching. So I went out to this workshop. It was done by Dr. Rick Cabina, whom we spoke with
1:13.9	in session 39 of the podcast. And it was just mind-blowing. You know, not only did I spend two
1:22.1	days learning with Rick, but the entire Chartletics crew was there. And to a person, all of the Chartletics employees
1:29.8	are extremely passionate about what they do. And the workshop was really interactive. There
1:37.0	was a lot of different activities that we did. It wasn't just sitting and listening and things
1:40.4	like that. And there were tons of takeaways. You know, there are things that I will start
1:45.3	doing differently, you know, on Monday, if you will. I'm recording, I just happen to be recording this on
1:51.3	the Sunday. So there's definitely things I'll be doing differently tomorrow as a result of this
1:55.9	workshop. So they're going to be doing more events like these.
2:05.2	There are upcoming events in Miami and Pittsburgh, and I know they're adding more as well.
2:09.7	So to keep up to date with this stuff, I would go to chartlittics.com forward slash events,
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