A Podcast By Doctors For All Matters Mental Health
Psych Debates is a resident physician-led project to create and promote conversations about important issues in psychiatry, psychology, and mental health care beyond the traditional academic platforms.
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The Story Behind
Psych Debates
This show was created to honor a scientific tradition that predates the scientific method, still applied today as a guidance and a key tool for future exploration and discovery: Debate.
Episode 13
ACT: Towards A Unified Personalized Science of Human Improvement
Dr. Steven Hayes is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods. He is a co-developer of Process-Based Therapy (PBT), a new approach to evidence-based therapies more generally.
Check out the W.H.O adaptation of ACT in over 25 languages: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240003927
Check out Dr. Steven Hayes’s website: https://stevenchayes.com
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Meet Your Hosts
Dr. Monty El-tohami, founder and co-host of Psych Debates, is a physician resident at Duke University. Prior to moving to North Carolina, he completed a year of internal medicine training in New York City and then joined Duke to pursue his dream of becoming a psychiatrist. He has special interests in psychotherapy, preventative, public, and integrative psychiatry.
Dr. Jonathan Nahamias, co-host of Psych Debates, joined Duke for his psychiatry residency training after completing his medical school training in Oklahoma. He has special interests in psychotherapy, mental health disparities, immigrant mental health and public mental health.