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| ACT uses behavioral techniques combined with |
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| client's use of language to alleviate client distress |
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| Clients use ineffective methods such as avoidance to |
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| accept a feeling ,even or situation. |
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| In the case of humans, there are three contextual fields: covert behavior (thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations), overt behavior & controlling environmental influences (ACT) T or F |
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| Language is based on arbitrary learned relations that are controlled within relational frames (“rule governed behaviors ,bi-directional relations, transformation of functions”) |
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| is a basic scientific underpinning of RFT, Relational Frame Theory |
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| Basic human condition is we can’t live without language . . . And we can’t live with it |
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| is a basic assumption of ACT |
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| All verbal relations function “behind the eyes” and |
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| therefore operate directly in the moment they exert behavioral control (i.e., they are not transparent) |
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| When this powerful computer (brain,nervous system) is focused inward, |
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| the very properties that moved us to the top of the feeding chain can become toxic |
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| When this powerful computer (brain,nervous system) is focused inward, |
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| the very properties that moved us to the top of the feeding chain can become toxic |
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| The two central “culprits” from a ACT point of view are. . . |
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Cognitive fusion: Mistaking private events as “reality”
Emotional avoidance: Unwillingness to make contact with undesirable, unwanted private mental events, leading to ever widening patterns of behavioral constriction |
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| Excessive use of control & avoidance leads to |
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| a loss of contact with committed actions & vital purposeful living |
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| It is not physical/mental pain per se that is the “enemy” but |
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| our attempts to avoid or control it lead to disorder and suffering |
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| The cycle of suffering is strongly supported in |
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| the culture through language acquisition and socialization |
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| The Principle of Destructive Normalcy,health is defined as |
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| the absence of distressing private content |
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| When you have distressing private content, that is a sign you |
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| are not “healthy” and abnormal |
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| The goal is to eliminate the |
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| distressing content in the service of being normal (the culture of “feel goodism”) |
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| FEAR: A Formula for Human Suffering is an acronym which stands for |
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| Fusion, Evaluation, Avoidance and Reason giving |
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| ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness processes, and commitment and behavior change processes, |
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| to produce greater psychological flexibility |
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| Psychological Flexibility |
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| is contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being, and based on what the situation affords changing or persisting in behavior in the service of chosen values. |
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| The Six Core Processes of ACT |
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Defusion: Establishing new functions for thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations
Acceptance: Non-judgmental awareness
Getting in the present moment: “Showing up”
Self as context: Contacting the transcendental sense of self in which all experience is safe
Valuing: A process that instantiates goal directed behavior
Committed action: Engaging in behaviors that are consistent with personal values |
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Accept: What is there to be experienced, fully and without defense, for what it is, not what it says it is
Choose: Based upon your closely held values, choose what you would like to be about here
Take Action: Engage in committed actions that embody your values, “inhaling” the distressing personal content as it appears |
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| Identify the Unworkable Change Agenda |
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| the therapist reviews with the client the ways the client has taken to solve the problem and examines why they have not worked, then suggests things he has not tried,then suggests that the symptom is not the problem |
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| “Person in the hole metaphor” |
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“Are you digging right now?”
“Refusing to walk in order to avoid holes sounds like a pretty boring life” |
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| This trap,or hole, has the paradoxical effect of |
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| adding to, rather than subtracting from, suffering |
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| Three Main Polarities In ACT Practice |
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| Acceptance, Choose mindfully and Take action |
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| In many cases, ACT might turn out to be a |
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| single session therapy or a very brief intervention |
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| Acceptance as the Alternative |
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| When is control called for? |
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| When the event in question is under the organism’s direct stimulus control |
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| When is Lack of Acceptance Is A Problem? |
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Usually, it starts with unwillingness statements.
I won’t... |
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| is a transcendent sense of self that is “bigger than” all of the products of consciousness |
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| Areas for ACT Values Assessment |
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Work/career/community usefulness
Love/intimate relationships
Family/parenting
Friends/social connectedness
Personal growth
Health and hygiene
Spirituality |
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Use the common sense language of free choice
Ask what they really want “Funeral Exercise” |
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| Rather than having clients focus on avoiding a feeling, act therapists help clients |
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| accept a feeling, an event or situation, so clients can look at not from feelings |
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| Therapists help clarify the client's values and then |
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| commit to behaviors that fit with these values |
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| acceptance and commitment therapy |
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| Act focuses on the client's use of languqe and behavior techniques to |
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| reduce the clients distress |
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| when the therapist examines the ways the client has tried, but not succeeded in solving the problem |
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| mind stuff, visualization,repetition of the words until they have no meaning |
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| Dialectical behavior therapy for borderlines |
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| is an argument; and assertion and an opposing position then a synthesis of the two |
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