Clinical Resources

Here's where you'll find lab-recommended resources for the clinical process.

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• Recordings, Podcasts, & Discussions

• Measures, Tools, Etc.

• Articles, Books, & Readings

🎥 Lab Meeting Recordings (Clinical/Applied Chats)

Clinical Skills Discussions

Clinically-oriented labbies have created a repository of "clinical skills discussions", including lab meetings and small group meetings.  

Browse the recordings, transcripts, and other resources here: Clinical Skills Discussions

Clinician as Learner: Cultivating Appetitive Learning in the Clinical Space

20-minute talk exploring how clinicians can engage in appetitive learning within therapy contexts, presented as a part of the ABAi 2025 symposium on teaching and learning.

Watch the Zoom recording here: Clinician as Learner

Clinical Behavior Analysis: What a Heck?

This meeting explores Clinical Behavior Analysis (CBA) as a functional and contextual approach to psychotherapy. The discussion focuses on the importance of in-session, moment-to-moment work; understanding behavior in context; shaping meaningful change; and practicing compassion, awareness, and acetpance as beaviors. Emphasis is placed on authenticity, professional boundaries, and the therapist's self-knowledge in fostering effective, human clinical practice. 

Watch the Zoom recording here: Zoom Recording (Passcode: a+^#9+kf)

Psychosis and Delusions: Continuum, not Categories

This discussion reframes psychosis and delusions as experiences on a continuum rather than as categorical "disorders". The presenters explore fusion, belief, and perception as forms of behavior occurring within context, highlighting that perception itself is a kind of "shared hallucination" shaped by learning history and social agreement. Emphasis is placed on compassion through continuity and on moving beyond the medical model to reduce stigma and promote more human-centered approaches.

Watch the Zoom recording here: Zoom Recording (Passcode: UMB81%th)

🎧 Podcasts/Videos

Nothing Left Out — Episode #1 — With Robyn Walser, PhD on Reflexivity

Conversation with Robyn Walser on how therapists can use their own experiences in therapy, exploring reflexivity.

Watch the discussion here: YouTube Link

Emotional and Transformational with Dr. Les Greenberg

Dr. Les Greenberg discusses the role of emotions in mental health problems and how emotional transformation is possible, emphasizing that "the best way to change an emotion is with another emotion." 

Listen to the discussion here: Spotify Link 

Dialogue with Dr. Kelly Wilson and Vanessa del Aguila

In this heartfelt dialogue with Dr. Kelly Wilson, co-founder og ACT, we explore recovery, vulnerability, and the therapist's role in bringing their full humanity into clinical work. Kelly shares personal stories, reflections on addiction and healing, and insights into how compassion and presence shape therapy. 

Watch the discussion here: YouTube Video

📏 Measures

Self-Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ)

This self-report measure is designed to assess rumination and dampening responses to positive affect, often used in ACT and mindfulness-related research. 

View the measure here: Self-Experiences Questionnaire (Google PDF)

📝 Notetaking Tools

Flexibility Notes ("Flex Notes")

Developed in a clinical context for therapists to use throughout their psychotherapeutic work, the process-based Flexibility Notes ("Flex Notes") reflect the foundational emphasis on in-session behavioral processes seen in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Clinical Behavior Analysis (Sandoz, 2020). The Flex Notes allow therapists to track client behavior in terms of aversive and appetitive control through the use of therapist prompts for the client to engage in different target behaviors. One of the clinical goals of ACT and CBA is to build client repertoires in the presence of functionally aversive stimuli, and the flexibility notes facilitate this process. The Flex Notes are presented in worksheet format and provide therapists with a series of target behaviors that are observed during a therapy session with a client. 

View the Flexibility Notes Worksheet here: Flexibility Notes Worksheet

Flex Notes Manual

Lab member Abbey Warren used the Flex Notes as a component of her Master's thesis project, and in the process, collaborated with Dr. Sandoz and other labbies to create an unofficial manual for folks who wish to know more about using the Flex Notes in clinical work. The manual is intended to guide therapists when using the Flex Notes and includes a conceptual overview, the Flex Notes worksheet, and a brief guide of different client behaviors that can be targeted during a therapy session.

View the Flexibility Notes Manual here: Flex Notes Manual

Flex Notes Prompting Guide

The first iteration of the Flex Notes manual did not include the target behavior guide. Instead, it contained a brief "prompting guide" of sorts that provides clinicians with examples of prompts aimed to elicit each target behavior. This prompting guide may be useful for folks who are interested in learning the different levels of prompting (i.e., scaffolding) that therapists may provide.

View the Flex Notes Prompting Guide here: Flex Notes Manual + Prompting Guide

📓 Articles

ADHD is a Personality Trait, Not a Disorder (Newsletter Article)

This article explores ADHD as a personality trait that can be adaptive or maladaptive depending on the context, challenging the notion of ADHD as strictly a disorder.

Read the article here: ADHD is a Personality Trait, Not a Disorder

RFT for Clinical Practice: Three Core Strategies in Understanding and Treating Human Suffering

This article introduces three core Relational Frame Theory (RFT) strategies to support clinicians in understanding and alleviating human suffering, bridging theory and applied clinical practice. 

Read the article here: RFT for Clinical Practice: Three Core Strategies in Understanding and Treating Human Suffering

📚 Books

📖 Other

Lab-Recommended Readings

Check out our "Recommended Readings" page and subpages for any therapy-related books, podcasts, and articles that labbies have recommended and shared with one another over the years: Recommended Readings