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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · 3 months ago

#TIL about #ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy);

"... an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy

Thoughts?

#healing #pyschology #therapy

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

"Cognitive defusion involves distancing yourself from and changing the way you react to distressing thoughts and feelings, which will mitigate their harmful effects. Techniques for cognitive defusion include observing a thought without judgment, singing the thought, and labeling the automatic response that you have."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapy-types/acceptance-and-commitment-therapy

OMG this is what Beck was doing with Loser!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE

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#CognitiveDefusion

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

"I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me" was (and is) the kind of negative self-image I've struggled with all my life. I've always felt like singing along to Loser, complete with the sardonic tone of Beck's delivery, satirises that thinking, helping to strip of its self-sabotaging power.

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Jonobie

@jonobie@social.coop replied · 3 months ago

@strypey What sorts of thoughts are you looking for? I’ve used ACT at times and know a bit about it.

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · 3 months ago

@jonobie
> What sorts of thoughts are you looking for?

Garbage or useful? Useful for what? Only when professionally applied, or can it be part of cognitive self-help? That kind of thing.

Jonobie

@jonobie@social.coop replied · 3 months ago

@strypey So most counseling theories can be helpful if you find they resonate with you. It's useful for basically most of the things you would go to counseling for, and is basically a "next gen CBT" style of therapy.

It can be self-help as well as professional, I think, depending on how much of a self-starter you are.

Jonobie

@jonobie@social.coop replied · 3 months ago

@strypey It probably works best for people who like structure/visualization/mindfulness styles of therapy. So if you follow it closely, there's very specific ways through it with exercises or visualizations for each of the 7 steps on the "hexaflex".

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