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)
Louise McHugh BSc MA PhD
Louise's research interests are centered on the experimental analysis of language and cognition from a behaviour analytic and Relational Frame Theory perspective, including especially the development of complex cognitive skills such as as perspective-taking and the process-level investigation of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She has published over 40 papers on these topics and has received funding from several sources including the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Waterloo Trust and the Welsh Assembly. Most recently she was awarded a European Marie Curie career integration award to join the faculty at UCD.
A faculty member at University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland, Louise McHugh is not only a world authority on RFT (Relational Frame Theory – the theory of language and cognition that underlies ACT) but also a dynamic and entertaining presenter. Louise is editor and co-author of the newly published textbook ‘The Self And Perspective Taking’, and her ground-breaking work in the use of RFT to help autistic children develop theory of mind and empathy is now being employed by state-of-the-art ABA programs around the world.
Dr. Priscilla Almada, Phd Dr. Priscilla Almada is a contextual behavioural scientist, who has been conducting research in social and community psychology through the experimental analysis of social cognition and verbal behaviour. With an emphasis on Relational Frame Theory, her work has included studies exploring the scope of the Flexible Connectedness Model (a model of social connectedness) in its capacity to better understand prosocial and coercive behavior. Priscilla is deeply committed to inspiring and nurturing Relational Frame Theory research in the space of social and community psychology. She has served on both the international Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) board and the Australia and New Zealand ACBS board, where she organized the first RFT conference in Australia at the University of Wollongong. Priscilla is also the coauthor of the forthcoming book, The CBS Guide to the Self (Spring 2018) published by New Harbinger, written alongside world-renowned RFT researchers Dr. Louise McHugh and Dr. Ian Stewart.
Ian Stewart Phd.