ACT Book Summary: Pages 132 - 135
ACT Book Summary: Pages 132 - 135The Alternative to Control and the Two Scales Metaphor
The objective here is to point to an alternative to the control agenda.
Use willingness instead of acceptance-because it is often confused with resignation or tolerance/defeat.
Two Scales Metaphor
Eric Fox
- designed to look at concept of control and its relationship to distress
- Should be linked to clients' experience of their own futile effort to control distress, can link it to more mundane or less meaningful examples for the client (for example, trying to sleep during a bout of insomnia. The harder you try to fall asleep the less sleep you get. In supervision, we often use the Chinese finger trap example-the harder you try to get out of it, the less out of it you are- you get stuck.)
- Want to undermine the client's confidence in the control strategy and depathologize the struggle over control
- Not crazy, just using the wrong strategy