Episode 5, Season 3: ACTing on Anger, But In a Good Way
Guest: Dr. John Donahue
Anger is something all humans experience. It can be uncomfortable for us as therapists when it shows up in therapy, whether it is the focus of intervention, or when expressed in session. Indeed, traditional clinical approaches have often focused on managing, preventing, or suppressing anger.
But perhaps anger itself isn’t always the problem, but rather aggression or other values-inconsistent behavioral choices. Join us as we discuss being curious about anger and its function from an ACT-informed perspective with our guest, John Donahue, Psy.D.
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Show Notes:
John Donahue, Psy.D. is an associate professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Baltimore, where he directs their post-master's certificate program in professional counseling studies. He received a doctorate in clinical psychology from La Salle University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the NW Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the Portland VA Medical Center, where he specialized in posttraumatic stress disorder treatment and research. Dr. Donahue’s clinical and research interests relate to the cross-cutting role of psychological flexibility processes in the development and maintenance of psychological disorders, and more broadly, the development of empirically based dimensional models of psychopathology. .
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