ACT
The definition of the ACT acronym.
The definition of the CBT acronym.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
This acronym involves the following skills (out of order): paced breathing, intense exercise, progressive/paired muscle relaxation, and temperature
What is TIPP?
the emotional state that is positive and/or pleasant ranging from contentment to intense joy. Other forms include life satisfaction, well-being, subjective well-being, and flourishing.
What is Happiness?
The diagram name that has 6 core processes of ACT: values, committed action, contact with the present moment, defusion, acceptance, and self-as-context.
What is the ACT Hexaflex Model?
The cognitive distortion where a person fixates on the worst possible outcome and treats it as likely, even when it is not.
What is Catastrophizing?
a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
What is Mindfulness?
an automatic physiological reaction to an event that is perceived as stressful or frightening.
What is the Fight Flight Freeze Fawn Response?
an emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow. An individual experiencing this emotion may become quiet or lethargic, and withdraw themselves from others.
What is Sadness?
In ACT, these are the principles that govern how you want to act. Unlike goals, these are never accomplished. Rather, these involve continuous behavior—they guide your choices and decisions according to the kind of person you strive to be.
What is Values?
The cognitive distortion that happens when you are convinced that you know what someone else is thinking.
What is mind reading?
an Emotion Regulation Skill that is used to check out whether your emotional reaction to an event fits the facts of that event or situation. This skill is especially useful when emotions are triggered by thoughts or by assumptions in response to a prompting situation.
What is Check the Facts?
an abnormal state of increased responsiveness to stimuli that is marked by various physiological and psychological symptoms (such as increased levels of alertness and anxiety and elevated heart rate and respiration)
What is the Hyperarousal state?
an intensely unpleasant emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat that causes physiological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as an aggressive response or fleeing the threat.
What is Fear?
The ACT step-by-step process of acting to create a life of integrity, true to one's deepest wishes and longings. This also involves both persistence and change— whichever is called for to live in alignment with one's values in specific contexts.
What is Committed Action?
The cognitive distortion where individuals tend to think dichotomously or only in extreme ends of thinking, and prevents one from opening up to the middle ground or thinking in shades of gray.
What is Black and White Thinking or Polarized Thinking?
With this DBT skill, you can create a situation or a scene that is different from the one that you are in now. In a way, you can leave the situation mentally even if you can't physically. You can escape to a safe place or imagine the situation going the way you want it to.
What is Imagery? / What is a calm safe space?
a low state of physiological arousal, emotional numbing, restricted functioning, social withdrawal and a disconnect between body and feelings.
What is the Hypoarousal State?
also known as wrath or rage, an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.
What is Anger?
This ACT principle is defined as being in contact with the present moment, fully aware of emotions, sensations, and thoughts, welcoming them, including the undesired ones, and moving in a pattern of behavior in the service of chosen values.
What is Psychological Flexibility?
This CBT concept refers to the inner dialogue or thoughts that people have with themselves.
What is Self Talk?
a DBT subskill of interpersonal effectiveness. You can use it to resolve a conflict or make a request in a respectful and effective way that maintains a relationship.
What is DEARMAN?
the best state of 'arousal' or stimulation in which we are able to function and thrive in everyday life. When we exist within this state, we are able to learn effectively, play, and relate well to ourselves and others.
What is the Window of Tolerance?
The 6 basic human emotions.
What is anger, sadness, fear, disgust, happiness, and surprise?