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ACT for Life Group Intervention for Psychosis Manual December 2011 Authors: Joseph Oliver, Eric Morris, Louise Johns, Majella Byrne South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust/ Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London United Kingdom Contact: louise.johns@kcl.ac.uk Special thanks to our colleagues who have helped us in developing this manual: Gordon Mitchell, Amy MacArthur and Ross White 1 Contents 1. Group Rational and Purpose 2. ACT for Psychosis Methods 3. Core Clinical Processes in ACT 4. Session 1 outline 5. Session 2 outline 6. Session 3 outline 7. Session 4 outline 8. Appendices – ACT or Psychosis Adherence Scale 9. Appendices – ACT prescribed and proscribed behaviours 10. Appendices - Worksheets 2 Group Rationale and Purpose Many people recovering from psychosis find it difficult to initiate and persevere with actions in important life areas. ACT is consistent with recovery and well-being, providing a set of evidence-based principles. The ACT therapeutic approach to psychosis focuses on helping clients to increase psychological flexibility in order to pursue life goals and directions that are personally meaningful. ACT assumes that psychological flexibility can be developed even when people experience persisting psychotic symptoms. This manual provides a description for a four session group based intervention for people who are experiencing or recovering from distressing psychosis. This intervention is currently being evaluated as part of a research trial, supported by a Guys and St Thomas’ Charity Grant. 1. An ACT view of psychosis ACT formulates the problems of distressing psychosis in