Session 6 - D.J. Moran on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria
Matt Cicoria
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In Session 6 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast, Dr. D.J. Moran, BCBA-D joins me to provide an overview of one of my favorite topics in Behavior Analysis: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). D.J. has been a practitioner of ACT for over 20 years; applying these concepts across a range of applications that include supporting children and parents with Autism, providing therapy in mental health settings, and more recently, using the ACT model to help corporations improve their safety and leadership initiatives. He’s also a fellow podcaster to boot!
In this podcast, D.J. tells us how he first encountered ACT, describes the core features and concepts of the ACT model, and discusses how ACT can help support caregivers of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
While D.J. is the author of many peer reviewed articles and chapters, listeners to the podcast would do well to check out his book, Building Safety Commitment, which provides one of the most accessible blueprints of the ACT model I have seen. Even though the book is about behavioral safety, one can easily transfer the ACT concepts to school, clinic, and home settings.
As D.J. notes in the podcast, listeners who want to learn more about ACT should head over to contextualscience.org, the internet home of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. Joining the ACBS provides access to a wealth of resources for all things ACT.
If you enjoy this show, please leave a rating and review in iTunes. It only takes a minute and it ensures that the message of Behavior Analysis stands out amongst all the other podcasts that are out there.
Finally, The Behavioral Observations Podcast is sponsored by bSci21.org. I encourage listeners to check out bSci21.org as Todd Ward (another ACT expert) and his contributing writers continue to publish great articles that discuss Behavior Analytic principles and applications in a fun and accessible format.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Behavioral Observations podcast with Matt Secoria, session number six. |
| 0:12.7 | Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior analysts. |
| 0:20.1 | Now here's your host, Matt Secoria. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for joining me for another session of the behavioral observations podcast. |
| 0:33.8 | I can't believe we're at session six already. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm looking forward to sharing a great conversation |
| 0:39.3 | that I had with today's guest, Dr. D.J. Moran. In this discussion, I give him the impossible |
| 0:45.5 | task of providing an overview of acceptance and commitment therapy in one podcast episode, |
| 0:51.5 | and he truly delivers. I'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute. |
| 0:56.2 | If you're on the Behavioral Observations podcast mailing list, you saw an informal poll that I |
| 1:00.4 | sent out last week. In that email, I asked subscribers to share their preferences on the topic |
| 1:05.3 | for the next show, and the respondents unanimously chose to hear about one of my favorite |
| 1:10.5 | topics in behavior analysis, |
| 1:12.1 | and that is, of course, acceptance and commitment therapy, or act as it's called. |
| 1:17.1 | And on a side note, if you're not on the mailing list and wish to get an occasional email for me, |
| 1:21.4 | head on over to behavioral observations.com and click the big red button on the right sidebar. |
| 1:28.3 | Getting back to the task at hand, however, DJ Moran has been a student and practitioner of |
| 1:33.7 | Act for over 20 years. |
| 1:35.8 | A clinical psychologist by training, DJ has played multiple roles over the years from |
| 1:40.4 | supporting children and parents with autism to providing direct therapy and mental |
| 1:44.8 | health settings and more recently using the act model to help corporations improve their safety and |
| 1:49.7 | leadership initiatives. He's also a fellow podcaster to boot. He is the host of a podcast about |
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