ACT
A.C.T. stands for?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Define Defusion
Stepping back and separating from our thoughts, images, and memories
Define Acceptance
Opening up and making room for painful feelings, sensations, urges, and emotions
True or False: ACT believes we can be moved from being stuck to unstuck
True
What's the only thing you can put in a bucket and make it lighter?
A hole
What do the A, C, and T stand for?
Accepting thoughts and feelings
Connect to your values
Take committed action
True or False: We can avoid suffering and painful experiences.
False
True or false: Acceptance means you like the emotions or thoughts
False, acceptance is about making room for them, not liking or agreeing with them
What does ACE stand for?
Acknowledge inner emotions, Connect with body, and Engage with what you are doing
Q: Sam's parents have three kids. Their names are Huey, Dewey, and _____?
Sam
The opposite of experiential avoidance
Acceptance
Trying to get rid of a feeling, sensation, urge, feeling, and/or memory
Experiential avoidance
This consciously connects with and engages us with whatever is happening in the moment
Contacting the present moment
True or false: Values are different from goals.
True, values are a compass and help us make decisions while goals are desired outcomes. Goals have an ending, values do not
What has one eye, but can’t see?
A needle
Name 2 reasons why mindfulness is important to recovery.
To experience unpleasant thoughts/feelings safely; to become aware of what you're avoiding; to become more connected to oneself, others and the world; to develop self-acceptance and self-compassion.
When someone becomes inseparable from their thoughts and are so caught up that they aren't even aware what they are thinking
Cognitive fusion
Name the feeling, observe it like a curious scientist, rate it on a scale of 1 to 10, commit to allowing it, breathe into it, make room for it, give it a shape and color
What is the antedote for the acroynm FEAR?
DARE- Defusion, Acceptance, Realistic goals, embracing values
I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?
an echo
Name a technique to help yourself defuse from a thought or experience
Notice it, focused mindfulness, sing it out, silly voices, voice it, journal
What is a technique to help you be in the present moment?
Meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, being aware of your surroundings
How can the number four be half of five?
In Roman numerals. Four is IV in Roman numerals, and also make up half the letters in the word "five."