Intro to ACT
ACT stands for
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Define Defusion
What is objectively looking at your thoughts, memories, and images instead of being caught up in thoughts?
Define Acceptance
What is opening up and making room for painful feelings, sensations, urges, and emotions
Define values
What is ways of being and doing that guide your actions? The principles that show what is important to you.
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound
The shape that represents the core principles of ACT
What is a hexagon?
True or False: We can avoid suffering and painful experiences.
What is false?
True or false, acceptance means you like the emotions or thoughts.
What is false? Acceptance is about making room for them, not liking them
How are values different than goals?
What is values are a way of living and goals are where we would like to go/achieve?
The part of yourself that notices thoughts, emotions, and sensations.
What is the observing self?
The opposite of avoidance
What is acceptance?
When someone becomes entangled with their thoughts and considers them absolute truth
What is fusion?
Name your five senses that help you tune into your body and the present moment.
What are sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste?
Name one personal value you hold
What is _______ (value)?
A "fishy" metaphor for being caught up in your thoughts or feelings.
What is being "hooked"?
A tool used in ACT to sort your internal and external experiences as moving you towards your values or away from your values
What is ACT Matrix?
Trying to get rid of an unwanted feeling, sensation, urge, and/or memory
What is experiential voidance?
DBT Skill defined as the ability to accept situations that are outside of your control without judging them
What is radical acceptance?
It is essential to consider if something moves you ______ your values or ______ from you values.
What is towards, away?
The acronym F.E.A.R. stands for
What is fusion, excessive goals, avoidance, and remoteness from values?
The six constructs of ACT
What is Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self-as-Context, Committed Action, and Values?
Name one cognitive defusion technique
What is imaging the thought as a leaf on a stream? What is saying the thought in a silly voice?
Name one technique to help you be in the present moment
What is progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness, awareness of surroundings, etc?
__________ action is a step-by-step process of acting to create a life of integrity, true to one’s deepest wishes and longings
What is committed?
The acronym opposite of F.E.A.R is ______.
What is DARE?