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Jun 1, 2007 10:46 am
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Just two thoughts: Would we be surprised if human beings exposed to certain similar environments, say, with democratic forms of government and liberal...
Hi Andrew, I work primarily with Canadian Forces members and veterans who are experiencing difficulties related to their service. I've used Imagery Rehearsal...
The references I have follow, though this list is not exhaustive. One RCT (vs. waitlist control see JAMA article), other smaller studies, most without ...
Hello all, The latest issue of the open access journal the International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy 3.2 is now available online at: ...
From below Jason said, "When you love self and others what you experience is the fullness of life you have been looking for...when you try to get that love,...
Thanks, Kevin, for letting us know about this. BTW have people seen this BBC report? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6711071.stm Best wishes David ... From:...
David Steare
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Jun 2, 2007 9:04 am
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Thank you all for your responses to my my questions, they are very helpfull. Brings of course answers and all the more new thoughts and questions. few things: ...
Concerning the discussion of values and spiritual practice: Cultural traditions differ in terms of how rule-bound spiritual practice is defined. Some may see...
Hi all, Yesterday I was doing a ACTtherapist training. When we discussed (the Dutch translation of ) the AAQ, I suddenly realised that when you read and answer...
Because I like Kelly's point eariler about "fusion" narrowing the avialability of verbal and nonverbal experience, I am now a little uncertain about saying...
Jacqueline - This is the dirty little secret of psychometrics. I mean _good_ psychometricians know this, but it gets brushed under the rug. The deeper issue is...
Another consideration is that valued directions can some be ego-dystonic - in the way that a person with OCD has intrusive thoughts about being violent or...
I'm wondering if other clinicians have used GOOYMAIYL with clients & what your experiences have been. Over the last 6 months, I've recommended GOOYMAIYL to...
I'd love to hear what people are doing to deal with this ... On the clinical value of the book: Tami Lazarrone, a student in my lab, is doing an RCT on the...
I've asked clilents to read the values chapters first and to do some of those exercises, if they like. The idea is that the values set the direction of the...
David: My little offering... If people can accept their feelings of anger or hatred even that may emerge towards a child, I think they can achieve a better...
Jason Gosnell
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Jun 4, 2007 1:30 am
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These ideas are intriguing. I was wondering if they could be used to explain the way some borderline clients try to think of others as being either totally ...
Here, I think, is at least one problem. I have found four different "meanings"of the word "should" at least in English. 1. "Should of prediction" - It should...
I believe there have been two kinds of augmentals described. I don't think values would qualify as a motivative augmentals but only as formal augmentals. On...
Hi Ando, This is a interesting discussion about values. One point I missed from you first and second email and I am very curious what others think of this: you...
... About "needs," Jackqueline, I'd say that none of us has any absolute needs. Per Hank's list of the varieties of the "should," one could say that there are...
Values CAN be based on aversives, in the case of a rule governed augmental sense of the term. However, I don't think that we would chose to accept an aversive...
A person in the UK, Victoria Mason, emailed me and asked for a nice, tight definition of acceptance: I am trying to locate a definition of acceptance...
Here's a bit of text from a manuscript I'm finishing up that's relevant: Where do values come from? From an ACT perspective, most (if not all) clients are...
Here's the one out of the ACT book- so the ref is: Hayes, Strosahl & Wilson (1999). Acceptance & COmmitment Therapy: An experiential approach to behavior...
Whoops-forgot to 'reply all' with the forwarded message below. _____ From: JT Blackledge [mailto:blackled@...] Sent: Wednesday, 6 June 2007 10:13 AM To:...
Hi Victoria...Here are a few, though none of them speak directly to chronic pain: …the Middle English root for the word accept is kap , meaning to take,...