ACT
What ACT stands for.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
What DBT stands for.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
What MBCT stands for.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
To take what is offered
Acceptance
Primary psychological disorder treated with DBT
Borderline Personality Disorder
Seeing your thoughts as just thoughts and becoming aware that they are not you.
Decentering
Remaining in contact with painful experiences without attempting to alter their form or frequency and persisting in actions that are consistent with one's personal values.
Experiential acceptance
The two core DBT treatment strategies.
Validation/acceptance and problem-solving/change
Deliberately focusing and paying attention to what you are doing and experiencing at the moment.
Mindfulness
You are not your thought.
Cognitive fusion
The purpose of Stage 1 in DBT Individual Therapy
To keep the client alive, safe, and connected to treatment.
Advantages of MBCT
Brevity, group format, cost-effective
Notions that someone is smarter than you are or funnier than you are.
Relational frames
A skill learned in DBT Group Therapy
Core mindfulness or Interpersonal effectiveness or Emotion-regulation or Distress tolerance
Founders of MCBT
Segal, Teasdale, Williams