ACT

Question 1

What are the components of the ACT hexaflex?

Answer 1

Question 2

What are the components of the ACT triflex?

Answer 2

Question 3

What are the components of the choice point?

Answer 3

Question 4

How do the choice point and the triflex connect?

Answer 4

Question 5

To which of the 4 ACT processes do “unhooking skills” refer to?

Answer 5

They refer to all four core ACT mindfulness processes

• Defusion
• Acceptance
• Self-as-context
• Contacting the present moment

Question 6

What processes contribute to psychological suffering in the ACT model?

Answer 6

• Cognitive fusion
• Experiential avoidance

Question 7

What metaphor can be used to explain fusion?

Answer 7

• Hands as thoughts and feelings

Question 8

What are six broad categories of fusion?

Answer 8

• Fusion with the past
• Fusion with the future
• Fusion with self-concept
• Fusion with reasons
• Fusion with rules
• Fusion with judgments

Question 9

What is an ACT metaphor for experiential avoidance?

Answer 9

• The Problem-Solving Machine

Question 10

What is “joining the DOTS”?

Answer 10

Tool for “creative hopelessness”

• D istration
• O pting out (includes procrastination)
• T hinking strategies
• S ubstances and other strageries

Question 11

What is a metaphor for fusion?

Answer 11

• Hands as Thoughts and Feelings

Question 12

What is a metaphor for struggling?

Answer 12

• Pushing away paper
• Quicksand
• Monsters and pulling the rope / hole in the middle

Question 13

What is the biggest obstacle to living a meaningful life / living according to one’s values according to ACT?

Answer 13

• Fusion

Question 14

What is the acronym for the steps in Dropping Anchor?

Answer 14

• A cknowledge your inner experience
• C ome back into your body
• E ngage with the world

Question 15

What are metaphors for emotional control?

Answer 15

• Stop the thought
• Falling in love (feelings vs behaviors)
• Polygraph (not feel anxious)

Question 16

What are steps for defusion?

Answer 16

• What is hooking you?
• Make link
• Offer new skills (and metaphor)

Question 17

What is the aim of defusion?

Answer 17

• Reducing the dominance of cognitions over overt or covert behavior

Question 18

What are the 3 Ns of defusion?

Answer 18

• Notice
• Name
• Neutralize (e.g. is it workable?)

Question 19

What are 3 techniques for defusion?

Answer 19

Question 20

What are three techniques for acceptance?

Answer 20

Question 21

What are three techniques for “Contacting the Present Moment”?

Answer 21

Question 22

What are three techniques for “Self-as-Context”?

Answer 22

Question 23

What are three techniques for “Values”?

Answer 23

Question 24

What are three techniques for committed action?

Answer 24

Question 25

What are three consequences of inflexible attention and what are solutions?

Answer 25

* Cutting off (people) --\> Do engaging skills (e.g. notice your hand) * Missing out --\> Savoring skills (mindfulness of raisin or water) * Doing things poorly --\> Focusing skills (breathing / body scan)

Question 26

What are, according to Kristin Neff, the three main elements of self-compassion?

Answer 26

* Mindfulness * Kindness * Common humanity

Question 27

What are the six building blocks of self-compassion in ACT (not a sequence)?

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* Acknowledge the wound (present moment?) * Be human (defusion / validation?) * Disarm the critic (defusion?) * Hold yourself kindly (acceptance?) * Make room for your pain (acceptance?) * See yourself in others (self-as-context?)

Question 28

What are the three options of the "Challenge Formula"?

Answer 28

* Leave * Stay and live by your values * Stay and give up acting effectively

Question 29

What are the ACT SMART goals?

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* S pecific * M otivated by values * A daptive (wise?) * Realistic * Time-framed

Question 30

What are the ACT steps for formal goal setting?

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# * Pick a domain * Choose your values * Set a SMART behavioral goal Plan B / Obstacles

Question 31

What are three functions of emotions?

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* Communicated * Motivated * Illuminate

Question 32

What are the four most common barriers to change?

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* H ooked * A voiding discomfort * R emoteness from values * D oubtful goals

Question 33

What are the seven factors involved in treatment resistance? What to do with each?

Answer 33

* Treatment mismatch (with type of therapy) --\> informed consent * Therapeutic discord --\> Embody ACT in the session * Secondary gains --\> Pros and cons of change * Fusion --\> Defusion * Excessive goals --\> Acceptance of discomfort * Avoidance of Discomfort * Remoteness from values DARE vs FEAR

Question 34

What are three ways of addressing fusion with the conceptualized self?

Answer 34

* Target specific judgments * Target the whole process of labeling one's self * Defuse from the entire narrative --\> moving into self-as-context

Question 35

What is self-as-content?

Answer 35