Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for clinically distressed health care workers: Waitlist-controlled evaluation of an ACT workshop in a routine practice setting.

Objectives: To examine the effects of a 1-day acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) workshop on the mental health of clinically distressed health care employees, and to explore ACT's processes of change in a routine practice setting.

Design: A quasi-controlled design, with participants block allocated to an ACT intervention or waiting list control group based on self-referral date.

Methods: Participants were 35 health care workers who had self-referred for the ACT workshop via a clinical support service for staff.

The relationship between emotional recognition ability and challenging behaviour in adults with an intellectual disability: a systematic review.

This review questions whether a relationship exists between emotional recognition ability and challenging behaviour in people with an intellectual disability. A search was completed of a number of databases to identify relevant articles, and these were then evaluated against defined criteria. Eight articles were reviewed and their aims, study methodology, samples, measurement tools and findings are discussed and evaluated.

A preliminary study into the relationship between emotional perception ability and challenging behaviour in adults with an intellectual disability.

This preliminary study explores the relationships between challenging behaviour and emotional perception in a population of adults with intellectual disabilities, in order to establish whether there are grounds for further study. Cross-sectional data were collected from 96 participants with intellectual disabilities and 95 carers. The service user participants completed the Emotional Perception Questionnaire, whilst carers completed the Checklist for Challenging Behaviour.

The use of a cognitive battery to predict who will fail an on-road driving test.

Objectives: There is a growing need to find a valid and reliable neuropsychological battery to screen out those people who are clearly unsafe to drive following brain injury or pathology, and thus alleviate the need to refer for an on-road assessment.

Design: A battery of cognitive tests fine-tuned for their relevance to driving was examined in terms of its sensitivity and specificity for predicting who would fail an on-road test following brain injury or pathology.

Method: Performance on the battery was compared to the results of an on-road driving test in a consecutive series of 142 clients referred to a driving assessment centre following brain injury or pathology.

The process of coping following child sexual abuse:a qualitative study.

This research employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches to studying the immediate and long-term coping strategies adopted by survivors of child sexual abuse, focusing on how strategies evolve over time. Qualitative findings showed that coping with child sexual abuse is not static, but changes over time. The narratives of these nonclinical survivors suggest that an adaptive outcome may be associated with a particular evolution of strategies across time, i.