ACT practitioners can thus help clients commit to and work with engagement toward goals through action. You can read more about how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy works. With these processes and principles in mind, here are some useful ACT worksheets.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy aims to reduce suffering and enrich life, as shown in the diagram below. To help in this process, there are four lots of information that are particularly important. These are represented in the four columns below.
Here is a handy exercise you can use with couples or families designed to help foster compassionate connection with one another, and to lead into values work.
Dr Russ has prepared free psychology resources including chapters from his books to help you understand more about ACT and how it can help you. Learn more.
Remember, values are about desired, ongoing action. They describe HOW we want to live our life. They are not about accomplishing a specific goal or achieving a certain level of “success”.
The official ACT definition of mindfulness is: “The defused, accepting, open contact with the present moment and the private events it contains, as a conscious human being, experientially distinct from the content being noticed.”
On the last page of this document you’ll find information about online training in ACT and online resources you can use with your clients to “supercharge” your sessions. The ACT Made Simple Facebook group includes thousands of practitioners from around the world.
To download the toolkit as a PDF, click here. To begin the web-based version of the toolkit, start at the Table of Contents below: Module 6: Where Do We Go From Here?
Commited action is an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy process that involves goal-seting. Use this worksheet to help you or your client design long-term life goals that are based on personal values. It can be a useful resource when used alongside or after a …
ACT is theoretically derived from relational frame theory (RFT) which is a behavior analytic account of the functional properties of human language. The ACT approach proposes that suffering and dysfunction arise from attempts to control or eliminate unwanted experiences.