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Article in Dutch.
Title: Learning to live with pain. Review of the book ACT for chronic pain by Dahl, Wilson, Luciano and Hayes.

Article in Dutch.
Title: Learning to live with pain. Review of the book ACT for chronic pain by Dahl, Wilson, Luciano and Hayes.

If you’d tried to control problem anger before with little success, this book offers you a new approach to try. Instead of asking you to struggle even harder with anger, this book helps you to drop the rope in your tug-of-war with anger using a new set of principles and techniques: acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

This paper describes the acceptance-based behavioural therapy of a 40 year old woman with a chronic low-back pain disorder (CLBP). The paper describes the specific ACT casusconceptualization and functional analysis, the use of metaphores, cognitive defusion, experiential techniques and therapy effects. Central aspects of the treatment were the historical context of the symptoms and experiential avoidance. As was hypothesized the results of the treatment were positive, even on the long term…

This paper describes the acceptance-based behavioural therapy of a 40 year old woman with a chronic low-back pain disorder (CLBP). The paper describes the specific ACT casusconceptualization and functional analysis, the use of metaphores, cognitive defusion, experiential techniques and therapy effects. Central aspects of the treatment were the historical context of the symptoms and experiential avoidance. As was hypothesized the results of the treatment were positive, even on the long term…