A brief psychological treatment focused on improving mood by changing thoughts and feelings.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
A tool in ACT that gives the ability to take what someone knows from one thing and apply it to another, cutting down on learning and processing time.
What are Metaphors?
Making others responsible for how you feel.
What is Blaming?
The aggressive style, the passive style, and the assertive style.
What are the Communication Styles?
An ancient Buddhist practice supported by modern science.
What is Mindfulness?
Goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely.
What are SMART Goals?
Allowing thoughts and feelings to arise without trying to change their form or frequency.
What is Acceptance?
Believing that you’re responsible for events that, in reality, are completely or partially out of your control.
What is Personalization?
We assume people know what we're talking about.
What is a Communication Roadblock?
Giving off that: "I don't care about me. I am not as important as you."
What is the message sent by using the Passive Communication Style?
Cognitive Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, and Mindfulness-Based Therapy.
What are the main components of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Learning what is most important to oneself and allowing those things to guide one's actions.
What are Values?
Measuring every behavior and situation on a scale of fairness.
What is Fallacy of Fairness?
The message given: "I care about me and I care about you"
What is the message sent by the Assertive Communication Style?
Subjective ironclad rules you set for yourself and others without considering the specifics of a circumstance.
What are "Should" Statements?
Training yourself to accept whatever you’re experiencing rather than trying to escape it.
What is a part of Practicing Mindfulness?
Detaching from inner experiences by interacting or relating to them differently.
What is Cognitive Defusion?
Taking an isolated negative event and turn it into a never-ending pattern of loss and defeat.
What is Overgeneralization?
Make a list of all persons we have harmed and become willing to make amends to them all.
What is the 8th Step in AA?
Concentrating on what the other person is saying instead of your own thoughts.
What is a way to combat Communication Roadblocks?
A CBT exercise to challenge thoughts and modify thinking to facilitate emotional and behavioral change.
What is Socratic Questioning?
Suffering is normal and Control is the problem, not the solution.
What are some assumptions ACT makes about human nature?
Draining and straining all positives in a situation and, instead, dwelling on its negatives.
What is Filtering?
Dominating, pushy, angry, insensitive, and bully.
What are the qualities associated with the Aggressive Communication Style?
Eating an Apple, Understanding the Car, and Feeding the Hungry Tiger.
What are examples of ACT Acceptance Metaphors?