ACT
A.C.T. stands for
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Define Defusion
What is remembering that thoughts are only thoughts instead of literal things?
Define acceptance
What is "Opening yourself fully to experience, as it is, not as your mind says it is."
This is the part of us that objectively is observing thoughts and emotions
What is the observing self?
A series of mental and physical changes in response to an internal or external event
What are feelings
The three goals of ACT
What is: Open Up
Get Present
Do what matters?
True or false, we can avoid suffering and painful experiences.
What is false
True or false, acceptance means you like the emotions or thoughts.
What is false? Acceptance is about making room for them, not liking or agreeing with it.
This is the ultimate goal and aim of ACT
What is to create a rich and meaningful life?
An emotion connected to problems that could happen in the future
What is anxiety
The emotional control agenda
What is trying to get rid of painful thoughts and feelings?
Trying to get rid of a feeling, sensation, urge, feeling and/or memory
What is experiential avoidance
This increases our awareness of what we are currently doing
What is present moment awareness
How are values different from goals?
What is values are like a compass as they help us to make choices based on the directions we want our lives to go?
An emotion connected to protectiveness, justice, or fairness
What is anger
An image/shape that represents psychological flexibility
What is the Hexaflex?
When someone becomes entangled with their thoughts and makes decisions or actions based on the internal experience
What is cognitive fusion
This increases when someone is engaging in experiential avoidance
What is suffering
This is taking effective action that is guided by our values.
What is committed action?
true or false: some emotions must be fixed
What is false
the six constructs of ACT
What are Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self-as-Context, Committed Action and Values?
Name a technique to help yourself defuse from a thought or experience
Ex: just noticing, put them out there, focused mindfulness, sing it out, silly voices, etc
What is one technique that helps you be in the present moment?
Ex. Meditation, leaves on a stream, progressive muscle relaxation, being aware of your surroundings
"This is the ability to be in the present moment with full awareness and openness to our experience, and to take action guided by our values."
What is psychological flexibility?
Practicing willingness could look like
What are: Letting go of the struggle, connecting to values, noticing the feeling in your body, grounding, connecting to values