September 2, 2015
Editor's note: The following is the second half of a two-part Q&A with John T. Blackledge, PhD, international ACT trainer, associate professor in the department of psychology at Morehead State… READ MORE
September 1, 2015
Editor's note: The following is a Q&A with John T. Blackledge, PhD, international ACT trainer, associate professor in the department of psychology at Morehead State University in Kentucky, and author… READ MORE
March 19, 2015
It’s not exactly news that mindfulness-based therapies are effective. A recent meta-analysis including 209 published empirical outcome studies indicated that mindfulness-based treatments in general were effective in treating a variety… READ MORE
March 17, 2015
If you use defusion in your therapy sessions, or any other technique aimed at helping clients create distance between themselves and the stories they tell themselves, you may recognize this… READ MORE
March 10, 2015
Across the board of contemporary psychotherapy modalities, some iteration of defusion-like techniques have been incorporated successfully to yield behavioral change. But when it comes to cognitive behavioral therapy, defusion and… READ MORE
March 6, 2015
If you use any technique that involves helping clients untangle themselves from the stories they tell about their lives and struggles and realize that their thoughts are not absolute truths,… READ MORE
March 2, 2015
What does the word defusion mean? According to John Blackledge, PhD, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) researcher and author of Cognitive Defusion in Practice: A Clinician’s Guide to Assessing, Observing… READ MORE
October 8, 2014
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been talking about some of the ways language can play tricks on us and cause suffering, as well as how, alternately, it can… READ MORE
August 6, 2014
Editor's note: The following was adapted from the edited volume, Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work, edited by Matthew S. Boone. Imagine a young mother suffering with chronic back pain… READ MORE
Part 2: What to Do When a Client Is Participating in Self-Judgment?
April 23, 2024
