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1
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Dropping anchor exercise acronym:

  • A
  • C
  • E
A
  • Acknowledgement your inner experience
  • Come back into your body
  • Engage with the world
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“When emotional storms blow up, the first thing we need to do is ____ _____; Obviously that won’t make the storm go away, _______ don’t control the weather; but it will hold us steady until the storm passes.

A

drop anchor; anchors

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Two main metaphors for dropping the struggle:

  • Struggling with ________ metaphor
  • T___ of w___ with a monster metaphor
A
  • Quicksand

- Tug of War

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Pushing the paper away metaphor:

  • Everything in front of you is what you w___ in life
  • The piece of paper is all your t______; F_______; and troubling e________ that you would like to get rid of
  • Push the _____ away (culture says to)
  • As we can’t, just lay it on your _____
A
  • Want (values etc)
  • thoughts, feelings, emotions,
  • paper
  • Lap
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Connecting the DOTS for Creative Hopelessness:

  • D_________
  • O_________
  • T__________ S________
  • S__________

What have these ______ you?

A
  • Distraction
  • Opting Out
  • Thinking Strategies
  • Substances and other strategies
  • Cost
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Five Basic Questions for CH:

  1. What have you _____?
  2. How has it w______?
  3. What has it c_____?
  4. What’s s________ up?
  5. Are you ____ to something new?
A
  1. Tried
  2. Worked
  3. Cost
  4. Showing
  5. Open
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The ACT Triflex:

Be Present:

  • Contact with the _______ moment
  • S___-as-Context

Open up

  • ________
  • ________

Do What Matters:

  • C_______ A_____
  • V______
A
  • Present
  • Self
  • Defusion
  • Acceptance
  • Committed Action
  • Values
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What to do in the first session:

  1. Establish r________
  2. Take a h______
  3. Obtaining I_______ C_______
  4. Establish B_________ G_______
A
  1. Rapport
  2. History
  3. Informed Consent
  4. Behavioural Goals
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Two Key Insights:

  1. Our thoughts and feelings are not the main problem, it’s getting ________ by them (fusion and avoidance) that creates our problems
  2. Our thoughts and feelings do not have to c_______ our b_______
A
  • Hooked

- control our behaviour

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8 Areas of History Taking: 
1 The \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ complaint
2 Initial V\_\_\_\_\_\_ assessment
3 Current L\_\_\_ context
4 Relevant \_\_\_\_ history
5 P\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ rigidity 
6 mot\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ factors
7 p\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ flexibility
8 C\_\_\_\_\_\_ resources
A 
1 Presenting 
2 Values
3 Life
4 past 
5 Psychological 
6 Motivational 
7 Psychological 
8 Client
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Inflexible Attention: (3 D’s)
1 Dis__________
2 Dis__________
3 Dis__________

A

Distracability
Disengagement
Disconnection

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__________ ___________: The ongoing attempt to get rid of, avoid, or escape from unwanted private experiences such as thoughts, feelings, and memories.

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Experiential Avoidance

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(Hexaflex) Inflexible Attention is the opposite of ….

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Contacting the present moment

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(Hexaflex) Experiential Avoidance is the opposite of …

A

Acceptance

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(Hexaflex) Defusion is the opposite of …

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Fusion, reasons, judgements, and rules.

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(Hexaflex) Fusion with Self-Concept is the opposite of …

A

Self-As-Context

17
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(Hexaflex) Unworkable action is the opposite of …

A

Committed Action

18
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(Hexaflex) Remoteness of values is the opposite of …

A

Values

19
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Two types of delivered fusion:
1 A______ mode: State of fusion, automatically obey our thoughts and feelings, and do whatever our cognitions tell us to do.
2 A________ mode: State of fusion, we do whatever we can to avoid or get rid of unwanted thoughts and feelings

A

Automatic mode; Avoidance mode

20
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6 Broad Categories of Fusion: 
1 Fusion with the P\_\_\_\_\_
2 Fusion with the F\_\_\_\_\_\_
3 Fusion with S\_\_\_-C\_\_\_\_\_\_
4 Fusion with R\_\_\_\_\_\_ (I can't because I'm too ...) 
5 Fusion with R\_\_\_\_\_
6 Fusion with J\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
A 
1 Past
2 Future
3 Self-Concept
4 Reasons
5 Rules
6 Judgements
21
Q

“Is what you’re doing working to give you the sort of life you want in the long term?”

Is….

A

Workability

22
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Two ways fusion shows up:
1 When our cognitions dominate our ________ actions in problematic ways
2 When our cognitions dominate our a________ in problematic ways

A
  • Physical Actions

- Awareness

23
Q

C________ F_________: Our cognitions dominate our behaviour (overt & covert) in a manner that is self-defeating or problematic

A

Cognitive Fusion

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