Excerpt from Build your Resilience (2012)
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An excerpt from the new book Build your Resilience (2012) by Donald Robertson, discussing approaches to improving psychological resilience.
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Mindfulness and Acceptance-based Exposure Therapy Recordings
There are two versions of an MP3 recording in this post, containing an exercise for mindfulness and acceptance-based imaginal exposure therapy.
Continue readingACT Video Exercise on Accepting Emotions
This is a brief Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) exercise for accepting emotions, in an embedded Youtube video.
Continue readingMindfulness & Social Resilience
Mindfulness & Social Resilience Gaining Appropriate Psychological Distance Copyright (c) Donald Robertson, 2012. All rights reserved. Distressing thoughts in social anxiety differ qualitatively from thoughts in most other forms of anxiety insofar as they are often attributed to other people, … Continue reading
Mindfulness: Some Initial Experiments
This short article guides you through some initial experiments (practical exercises) used in mindfulness and acceptance-based CBT to learn how to cope with distressing thoughts by accepting them in a detached way, while letting go of any struggle against them.
Continue readingAcceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
This brief article outlines the definition of psychologically flexible and inflexible styles of responding in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
Continue readingAimless Relaxation
This short article explains how to approach muscle relaxation exercises in a more mindful and accepting way, by letting go of any attachment to the outcome of the exercise.
Continue readingBeing AWARE in Cognitive Therapy for Anxiety
This short article describes the AWARE acronym used by Aaron Beck in his cognitive therapy for anxiety and phobias, in the form of self-help advice to clients at the outset of therapy.
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