Accceptance and Commitment therapy
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What is the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
What is the aim of ACT?
- Transform relationship towards our difficult thoughts
- Don't perceive them as symptoms, but as harmless, transient, uncomfortable thoughts that we can endure.
How can you teach clients acceptance?
- Mindfullness: observe and stay with difficult emotions
- Exposure to situations that trigger difficult emotions and learn to endure them
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How are thoughts adressed in ACT?
What is cognitive defusion?
Learn that they are not their thoughts/feelings, but that it are just words/pictures/feelings that are passing through our mind.
What types of exercises can be used in Cognitive defusion?
- Reframe thoughts "i will never" --> "I have the thought that I will...."
- Make thoughts bizarre
- name them a story: The failure story
- Type it out in bizarre font, colours.
- Leave it on a stream
- Mindfullness excersise: obesrving the thoughts crossing your mind with curiousity.
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