Hi David - thanks, am looking forward to your summary and thanks also to the finger trappers for sharing their sources! Thought I'd take the opportunity to...
Hi David in response to your question posed about the potential for a eureka moment - I've also been thinking the same. I am working with quite a few clients...
i wonder if sometimes "getting it" comes and goes a bit, maybe a bit fluid at times.i had an interesting experience in working with a woman with panic who was...
Dear Tony - I've heard from a friend of a colleague who is a health professional and is interested in training in ACT or at least learning more about at. Do...
Hi, I thought I would wait a week or so following a Chapter 3 posting before adding my summary of chapter 4. Please compliment, criticise, add, take away or...
Many thanks for your thought-provoking summary David, and the interesting references to other sources. In clinical work, I find this chapter's subject -...
Dear David, Thank you for a thoughtful and thorough review of the chapter. Regarding your reference to Byron Katie, there was a thread on the ACT list serve in...
Hi David, Thanks for elaborating on the 'letting go' v 'willingness/acceptance'. I hadn't thought of these two (or three) things as separate and had been ...
Dear Tony, Thanks so much for this. Byron Katie's ideas interest me but probably like the first writer I've only really used the 'Is that true?' / 'Is that...
Hi, I'm posting to the UK and general list as I think that USA based people may know more about this. I've been thinking more about 'willingness' and 'letting...
If you haven't seen this: http://psychcentral.com/news/2007/03/09/self-control-can-wear-down/ I thought that it provided another way to consider the usefulness...
Hi guys, I've been asked by my service to develop a leaflet on Acceptance and Mindfulness Based Therapies to give to clients. Not wanting to reinvent the wheel...
Hi all, Any takers for Ch 5 summary? If not, I'll do it with pleasure, but if there are, I'd be grateful. Tony. Tony Balazs MSc BCBA Owner, UKACT listserve...
Hi Tony and all, Here is a summary of Ch 5. best, David Chapter 5 The Trouble with Thoughts This chapter focuses on the central role of cognition in the ACT...
Thank you, David, for this easy to read guide to Chapter 5. With a little tweaking I thought that it might be useful enough to turn into a handout for other...
Hi David I agree that it is commonly believed that "depression" and "anxiety" are real entities (rather than pragmatically useful ways of talking about...
Hello All I have been running an ACT group with Older adults and during/following the observer self exercise and, perhaps understandably, most clients tended...
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Well, I was waiting to see if we would have any more responses to David's excellent summary. Anyone? Very good I think if all contributors can get plenty of...
Hello everyone, just a message to alert you to the existence of the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Special Interest Branch (ACTSIB) of the BABCP. If you are...
"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and aggrieved." - Marcus Antonius. ...
Hello folks, I'm currently studying for a BSc degree in Psychosocial Interventions for Psychosis. I have just completed a case study assignment using...
Hi Matthew, The ACT Special Interest Branch of the BABCP has been planning a number of UK training events for the latter part of this year, including several...
Hello Acters, The South London ACT Group meets monthly in Croydon, and everyone interested is invited to attend. We mix experience and discussion. The next two...
Hi Mathew We are organising regular training through the ACT special interest branch of the BABCP. Details of frothcoming training will be published on UKACT,...