What's in the name
A.C.T. stands for
What is "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy"
This increases when someone is psychologically inflexible
What is suffering
Opening yourself fully to experience, as it is, not as your mind is. Opening up
What is Acceptance
This is the part of us that objectively is observing thoughts and emotions
What is the observing self?
While Traditional CBT focuses on changing the content of a thought (e.g., "That's an irrational thought"), ACT focuses on changing a person's this with the thought
What is the relations
In ACT' s view, this is what causes 'suffering'
What is Psychological Inflexibility?
These two "Get Moving" processes involve identifying what matters and taking action to get there.
What are Values and Committed Action?
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.
Foster the "observing self" can negate the negative impact of this
What is Fusion to Conceptualized Self
In Traditional CBT, a clinician might use "Cognitive Restructuring" to challenge a thought's validity. In ACT, the clinician uses this "D-word" to help the client see the thought as just words, regardless of whether it’s "true."
What is Defusion?
This is the ultimate goal and aim of ACT
What is to create a rich and meaningful life?
When all six core processes are working together, the individual is said to have high levels of this.
What is Psychological Flexibility
This increases our awareness of what we are currently doing
What is present moment awareness
It's considered a compass for our life's directions and is associated with committed action.
What is Value
Traditional CBT often aims for "Symptom Reduction" as a primary goal. ACT views symptom reduction as a frequent byproduct, but defines its primary "Gold Standard" as this instead.
What is Psychological Flexibility (or Workability)?
This is the primary goal of ACT: the ability to stay in the present moment and change or persist in behavior when doing so serves one's valued ends.
Psychological Flexibility?
These two "Mindfulness" processes involve being here now and observing yourself without judgment.
What are Present Moment Awareness and Self-as-Context?
What is objectively looking at your thoughts, memories and images instead of being caught up in thoughts
What is Defusion
This is taking effective action that is guided by our values.
What is committed action?
This "F-word" describes the ACT approach to understanding behavior by looking at what it does for the person (its purpose), rather than what the behavior looks like (its topography).
What is Functional? (as in Functional Analysis)
What is Acceptance, Defusion, Present Moment, Self-as-Context, Committed Action and Values called?
The six Processes of ACT; Hexaflex
These two "Open Up" processes involve making room for feelings and distancing from unhelpful thoughts.
What are Acceptance and Defusion?
When someone becomes entangle with their thoughts and makes decisions or actions based on the internal experience
What is cognitive fusion
"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." ACT Made Simple
What is psychological flexibility?
CBT is pronounced as C-B-T. ACT is pronounced as ACT because its emphasis on this.
WHAT IS ACTION