As you may know I tend not to use the V word to do values work, as it can lead people towards stories about values. Thus we can hear ideas like ‘I have a values conflict’, or ‘I have no values’.…
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I am doing research project for my Masters in Social Work. I am an Intern at a short-term psychiatric facility. In my research…
Everyone has heard about the Comfort Zone and the Learning Zone, but the reality of change is different. In the normal model of change you learn to do new things that will make life better. If…
"Accion tutorial y orientación: Aceptación, compromiso, valores". The English title might be something like: "Teaching and Advising at Secondary School: Acceptance,…
Coping is a concept we often use in chronic pain management.
Our aim as clinicians is to help people with chronic pain cope with their pain so they can do more of what is important to…
What’s Right is Wrong and What’s Wrong is Right
Clients who come to therapy, or ask for help, will believe that there is something wrong with them. They will attend sessions in order for an…
Shifting Sands Metaphor
The purpose of ACT is not to fix symptoms, rather to develop a life life of meaning that is worth living. For the therapist this is a dramatic change of…
Between the first part of the reference book 'Experiential Approach to Change' and the second part there is a gap, if you have not received a Behavioral Training. I call this area the ACT…
I blog fortnightly about parenting on my own website. My blog posts draw upon my experiences as a parenting researcher, my clinical experience as a clinical and developmental psychologist…
Every day the same routine: A very early start only to find the everyday sullen colleagues in the rickety van towards the site where they will get the pile of advertisements which everyone in…