ACT Hexaflex
Means being psychologically present: consciously connecting with and engaging in whatever is happening in this moment
What is Contact with the Present Moment or Being Present: Be Here Now
Is focused on living a value driven life rather than emphasis on symptom reduction
What is the Acceptance Commitment Therapy model
Used to describe an
incredibly complex set of interactive cognitive processes, such as analyzing, comparing, evaluating,
planning, remembering, visualizing, and so on.
What is the Mind
These are desired qualities of ongoing action. In other words, they describe how we want to behave on an ongoing basis.
What are Values
The 6 core processes of ACT are known as:
What is the Hexaflex
Means learning to “step back” and separate or detach from our thoughts, images, and memories.
What is Defusion or Cognitive Defusion
One major element of
ACT is ________
Teaching people how to handle pain more effectively through the use of mindfulness skills.
Is not your friend or your enemy
What is the mind
Can be called a compass because they give us direction and guide our ongoing journey.
What are values
The 6 core. processes of ACT can be broken down into three functional units called the:
What is the ACT Triflex
Means opening up and making room for painful feelings, sensations, urges, and emotions. Instead of fighting them, resisting them, running from them, or getting overwhelmed by them, we open up to them and let them be.
What is Acceptance
Technically speaking, the primary aim of ACT.
Psychological Flexibility or the ability to broaden the interpretive and actional responses to people and situations.
That part of us which is always generating thoughts, beliefs, memories, judgments, fantasies, plans, and so on.
What is the thinking mind
_____ are specific commitments you make to the values you have, whereas _____ are the directing feature that determine which specific commitments you make in the first place.
What are Goals/Values
Both defusion and acceptance are about:
What is Separating from thoughts and feelings, seeing them for what they truly are, making room for them, and allowing them to come and go of their own
accord.
In other words: “Opening up.”
Means taking effective action, guided by our values
What is Committed Action
A =
C =
T =
What is A: Accept your thoughts and feelings, and be present, C: Choose a valued direction, and T: Take action.
The aspect of us that
is aware of whatever we’re thinking, feeling, sensing, or doing in any moment.
What is the Observing Self, Self as Context, or Pure Awareness
Important to map out so you have clarity of what is important to you
What is identifying your values
Self-as-context (aka the observing self) and contacting the present moment both involve:
What is Making contact with verbal and nonverbal aspects of your here-and-now experience.
In other words: “Being present.”
The ability to be in the present moment with full awareness and openness to our experience, and to take action guided by our values.
Put more simply, it’s the ability to “be
present, open up, and do what matters.”
What is Psychological Flexibility
Used to avoid the danger of getting bogged down in long-winded explanations, causing the client
will intellectualize the model
What is the use of a metaphor
Is an awareness process, not a thinking process: means paying attention with flexibility, openness, and curiosity.
What is mindfulness
Is the desired outcome in ACT, not
symptom reduction
What is mindful, value-congruent living
Values and committed action involve:
What is he effective use of language to facilitate life-enhancing action.
In other words: “Doing what matters.”