ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Learning to increase psychological flexibility as you move forward in your life
Acceptance Processes: Opening up to your automatic thoughts and feelings (e.g., your mind chatter about the
past/present or judgements/evaluations)
Psychological processes to be enhanced:
actions
Psychological processes to be enhanced:
ACT Website: Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
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Contingency-Shaped Strategies to Promote Emotional Acceptance
IBCT Website: Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
Learning to increase psychological flexibility as you move forward in your life
Acceptance Processes: Opening up to your automatic thoughts and feelings (e.g., your mind chatter about the
past/present or judgements/evaluations)
Psychological processes to be enhanced:
 | Contacting the present moment fully so you are conscious of your experience as it occurs. | |
| Being mindful of your thoughts/feelings; observing them and learning from them | |
| Distancing yourself from your thoughts/feelings in order to disentangle yourself from your painful | |
| mind chatter | ||
| Conceptualizing the self as the observer of events rather than as being defective or unlovable |
actions
Psychological processes to be enhanced:
| Clarifying what is really important and meaningful to you | |
| Creating value-based actions by linking your actions to what is important |
ACT Website: Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
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Psychologist-PhD
Sandra J Kearns, PhD
20101 SW Birch St, Suite 130B
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-910-8213
20101 SW Birch St, Suite 130B
Newport Beach, CA 92660
949-910-8213
DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Developing skills to manage strong emotions
Dialectical Philosophy: Finding the best balance between the opposing forces of acceptance and change while
at the same time keeping in mind one's goals, personality characteristics, and the current context
Building Behavioral Skills
DBT Website: Behavioral Tech, LLC
Developing skills to manage strong emotions
Dialectical Philosophy: Finding the best balance between the opposing forces of acceptance and change while
at the same time keeping in mind one's goals, personality characteristics, and the current context
Building Behavioral Skills
| Core Mindfulness: in the present moment, learning to observe, describe, participate in a non-judgmental | |
| manner; focusing on one thing at a time and taking effective action | ||
| Distress Tolerance : learning to handle strong feelings without acting on them; accepting reality | |
| Emotion Regulation: increasing the ability to handle overwhelming emotions and building positive | |
| experiences | ||
| Interpersonal Effectiveness: identifying objectives, keeping relationships, and maintaining self-respect |
DBT Website: Behavioral Tech, LLC
| IBCT: Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy Forming a more accepting and adaptive relationship |
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Integrative Aspects
Therapeutic Goal
Becoming more aware of relationship patterns and their emotional impact, with the goal of responding to them in
| Both acceptance and change are outcome goals | |
| A variety of treatment strategies are integrated into a behavioral framework |
Therapeutic Goal
Becoming more aware of relationship patterns and their emotional impact, with the goal of responding to them in
Contingency-Shaped Strategies to Promote Emotional Acceptance
| Empathic Joining: eliciting emotions that help you become sympathetic partners rather than adversaries | |
| Unified Detachment: creating distance from the problem; treating the problem as an "it" rather than a "you" | |
| Tolerance Building: recovery and management of problems when they reappear |
IBCT Website: Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
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