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acceptance and mindfulness

thoughts, ACT, acceptance and mindfulness
June 11, 2019

By Judith Belmont, MS, LPC

One of the cornerstones of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is to help clients distance themselves from their disturbing thoughts through the process of cognitive defusion.

An example of cognitive defusion is replacing a thought, such as “I am an idiot,” with the thought of “There I go again—having the thought that I am an idiot.”

acceptance and mindfulness, anxiety, teens, emotions
February 12, 2019

By Sheri Turrell, PhD

Adolescent distress shows up in many ways, from moodiness and irritability to more explicit acting-out behavior. Parents, on the receiving end of their teens’ intense emotions, can find themselves reacting in ways they are not proud of.

Mindfulness Meditation
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, OCD, acceptance and mindfulness, mindfulness, meditation, meditation practice
March 01, 2018

Jon Hershfield, MFT, co-author of Everyday Mindfulness for OCD

compassion, acceptance and mindfulness, ACT, compassion-focused therapy, Buddhism, Buddhist Psychology
November 03, 2015

Editor’s note: The following is a part two of a Q&A with Dennis Tirch, PhD, and Laura Silberstein, PhD, co-authors along with Benjamin Schoendorff, MA, MSc of The ACT Practitioner’s Guide to the Science of Compassion: Tools for Fostering Psychological Flexibility. Tirch and Silberstein have collaborated on all responses.

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