John P. Forsyth, Ph.D., is associate professor and director of the Anxiety Disorders Research Program in the Department of Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He has written widely on acceptance and experiential avoidance, and the role of emotion regulatory processes in anxiety disorders. He has been doing basic and applied work related to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and the anxiety disorders for well over 10 years. In 2000 he received the B. F. Skinner New Researcher Award from Division 25 of the American Psychological Association for innovative and important behavioral research by a new investigator. In 1999, he was the recipient of the Dissertation Award from the Society for a Science for Clinical Psychology for excellence in research. John is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State, serves on the editorial boards of several leading clinical psychology journals, and is associate editor of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. He is the author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: A Practitioner's Treatment Guide to Using Mindfulness, Acceptance, and Value-Based Behavior Change Strategies" and ACT on Life, Not on Anger: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Problem Anger.