Offering a new Extended training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)*, Functional Analytical Psychotherapy (FAP) and Relational Frame Theory (RFT), with fortnightly supervision to measure your increasing ACT-consistency. *Delivered by three ACBS peer-reviewed ACT Trainers
Our ACT training is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Jonathan W. Kanter, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Dr. Jonathan Kanter is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). He is Director of the UWM/MCW Depression Treatment Specialty Clinic and a Core Center Scientist at UWM’s Center for Addictions and Behavioral Health Research. His research covers FAP, Behavioral Activation, and stigma related to depression. He has written numerous empirical and theoretical articles on FAP and provided workshops to student and professional audiences. He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has edited or co-authored 5 books, including “A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism” with several other authors. He currently is the recipient of two federal research grants on Behavioral Activation through the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr Kanter gave the inaugural workshop on Behavioural Activation for the SIG in 2009 and received excellent feedback
Glenn M. Callaghan, Ph.D. Univ Of Nevada-Reno, 1998
Dr. Glenn Callaghan is Full Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University (SJSU) and a lecturer at Palo Alto University. He is Training Director of the clinical psychology graduate program and director of the Center for Innovative Assessment and Treatment at SJSU. His research covers FAP, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and the combination of the two (FACT), and clinical problems related to depression, body image disturbance, and personality disorders. He also has written empirical and theoretical articles on FAP, and has developed one of the assessment systems used in FAP (the Functional Idiographic Assessment Template, or FIAT and FIAT-Q, now translated in 3 languages) as well as the process coding measure frequently used in FAP research (the Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Rating Scale, or FAPRS). He has provided workshops to students and professional audiences across the United States and in Australia. He is the author of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has co-authored 2 books. His training goals continue to be to disseminate FAP as both a stand-alone intervention and to enhance other interventions including ACT and CBT.