ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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Then have your client verbalize the word repeatedly for around 45 seconds. Masuda and colleagues’ study found this an effective way of helping their participants remove the associations. “Milk, milk, milk,” thus became a series of arbitrary sounds with little emotional impact. Relational Frame Therapy (RFT) premises that our uniquely human ability to evaluate, mentally connect, and verbally communicate phenomena can be as damaging as it is useful. Closely related to RFT, ACT is based on the idea that over-identifying with language contributes to psychological inflexibility (Hayes et al., 1999; Stoddard & Afari, 2014). I feel this book should be read at least once when we enter adulthood. We are going to face this situation someday or the other and it’s better that we understand/ be aware that not everyone is the same and not every relationship would work smoothly as we anticipate. During that period, did the thought lose any perceived importance or become less salient? Or did it become more restricting and more prominent?”

In educational contexts, ACT can be seen as a means of supporting students and teaching professionals with the general pressures of academic life (Gillard et al., 2018). At a broader level—not unlike Emotional Intelligence and Social-Emotional Learning—it has less targeted potential applications when embedded in wellbeing curricula. With 1 being “ Strongly Disagree” and 6 representing “ Strongly Agree,” this self-report measure includes the following example items (Gámez et al., 2014): Close your eyes slowly and gently, then quietly feel your breath as it moves in and out your body. Note any physical sensations across your body with relaxed detachment. Developed by Gámez and colleagues (2014), the Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire is one psychometric assessment of experiential avoidance that has demonstrated good internal consistency. It comprises 15 6-point Likert Scale Items and has stronger construct validity than the (perhaps) better-known Acceptance and Avoidance Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) (Tyndall et al., 2018). It turned out this book was surprisingly good ! It's probably one of the best books out there on the subject of relationships (and better than general self help books).This is adapted from The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety (Forsyth & Eifert, 2016) 2. Not This, Not That Exercise PDF / EPUB File Name: ACT_with_Love__Stop_Struggling_Reconcile_-_Russ_Harris.pdf, ACT_with_Love__Stop_Struggling_Reconcile_-_Russ_Harris.epub In this fully revised and updated edition of ACT with Love, therapist and world-renowned ACT expert Russ Harris shows how developing psychological flexibility-the ability to be in the present moment with openness, awareness, and focus, and to take effective action in line with one’s values-can help you and your partner strengthen and deepen your relationship. Also included is new information on attachment theory, powerful mindfulness and self-compassion techniques, and assertiveness and boundary-setting skills.

There is no one type of ACT intervention—Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can vary from the very-short, lasting a few minutes, to lengthy interventions that span numerous sessions. Typically, they involve techniques based on the six core processes we looked at above. What personal ‘stuff’ might your committed action cause to arise? Try to break these down into three areas: a) physical and psychological feelings, b) unproductive/unpleasant self-criticisms or thoughts, and c) visuals and memories.

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Fernández García, R., Secades Villa, R., Terrados Cepeda, N., García Cueto, E., & García Montes, J. M. (2004). Efecto de la hipnosis y la terapia de aceptación y compromiso (ACT) en la mejora de la fuerza física en piragüistas. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 4(3). Dennis Tirch, PhD “A warm and life-changing read, for people at any point in their relationship. Harris’s writing style is witty and poignant, offering help on issues such as whether to continue with a relationship or end it, how to appreciate your partner, making repairs when things are off course, and developing intimacy. A must-read to enhance your connection with your loved one or to move on from a relationship that isn’t working. I cannot recommend this book enough.” Being effective as an anthropologist means using your powers of observation. Without disrupting or interrupting the phenomena that you’re studying, you need to elicit information about these thoughts, emotions, memories, and sensations.