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7: Lindsey Jacobs on Value-Based Living, Acceptance, and Other Core ACT Principles
In this episode, Dr. Lindsey Jacobs shares six key principles of acceptance and commitment therapy to help us live according to our values, practice acceptance, make contact with the present moment, and more.
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About Lindsey:
Dr. Jacobs is a licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in geropsychology. Her clinical interests include delivering evidence-based individual and group interventions to older adults and their caregivers, conducting decision-making and functional capacity evaluations, and working in interdisciplinary teams. Dr. Jacobs’ research interests include acceptance and commitment therapy for older adults, mindfulness-based interventions for caregivers, resident autonomy in long-term care, quality improvement and program evaluation, and geriatric training. She is also founder and host of the Geropsychology Podcast.
Contact:
- Twitter: @MLindseyJacobs
- Twitter: @TheGeroPodcast
Resources Mentioned:
- The Geropsychology Podcast
- Publications by Dr. Jacobs
- Wikipedia: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
- ACT Made Simple: An Easy-To-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Russ Harris
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Stephen Hayes
- The ACT Hexaflex:
Source: Dewhurst, E., Novakova, B., & Reuber, M. (2015). A prospective service evaluation of acceptance and commitment
therapy for patients with refractory epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 46, May 2015, 234-241.
