ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – JoAnne Dahl

Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope.

On August 28 of this summer, it will be the 50 year anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which many believe marks the high point of the civil rights movement in America. Where are we 50 years later? Are we any closer to MLK Jr’s dream that we will all live together as brothers and sisters in this world? Today you are going to get the chance to talk to an expert. Dr Jonathan Kanter. Jonathan will tell you about his workshops that specifically target racism in groups.

Jonathan is an Associate Professor and Director, UWM Depression Treatment Specialty Clinic

Coordinator, UWM Psychology Clinic.He is also a Core Scientist, Center for Addictions and Behavioral Health Research
Department of Psychology. Jonathan is the author of A Guide to Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Awareness, Courage, Love, and Behaviorism

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. You can read more about Jonathan, his books by clicking on his name on this week’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope.

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Working with self compassion
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something can be helpful to all of us no matter what situation we are in. Acting in a kind and loving way towards ourselves. Self compassion. Self compassion is about developing a kind and helpful relationship with yourself. It is the opposite of being harsh with or even punishing yourself. Today you are going to get a chance to talk to an expert on self compassion and how to develop it. Dr Paul Gilbert. Paul is a professor at the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust at the Mental Health Research Unit at Kingsway Hospital in the United Kingdom. Paul is the
founder of Compassion focused therapy and the author of the book (The Compassionate Mind, www.compassionatemind.co.uk . You can read more about Paul and Compassion focused therapy by looking at his home page which you can find by clicking on his name on this week’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope. http://www.derby.ac.uk/schools/fehs/research/mhru/
www.compassionatemind.co.uk

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something that concerns us all AIDS and HIV stigma and discrimination.

AIDS stigma and discrimination exist worldwide, although they manifest themselves differently across countries, communities, religious groups and individuals. They occur alongside other forms of stigma and discrimination, such as racism, stigma based on physical appearance, homophobia. Stigma not only makes it more difficult for people trying to come to terms with HIV and manage their illness on a personal level, but it also interferes with attempts to fight the HIV and AIDS epidemic as a whole. On a national level, the stigma associated with HIV can deter governments from taking fast, effective action against the epidemic, whilst on a personal level it can make individuals reluctant to access HIV testing, treatment and care.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon says:

“Stigma remains the single most important barrier to public action. It is a main reason why too many people are afraid to see a doctor to determine whether they have the disease, or to seek treatment if so. It helps make AIDS the silent killer, because people fear the social disgrace of speaking about it, or taking easily available precautions. Stigma is a chief reason why the AIDS epidemic continues to devastate societies around the world.”1

Today you will get the chance to talk to an expert. Dr Matthew Skinta. is a Clinical Psychologist,
Board Certified in Clinical Health Psychology , working in private practice in San Francisco with a high concentration of HIV-positive gay men, ranging from early 20s to late 60s. Matthew has supervised UCSF Alliance Health Project, and received a small institutional grant that funded an ACT/CFT group for HIV-related stigma.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope

Today we are starting a series of how ACT is used for health issues. Remember that ACT has three components, opening up to the reality of the moment, becoming aware of the difference between the actual reality felt by your 5 senses in contrast to what your mind is telling you about this reality and third taking steps in your valued directions in this reality you find yourself in.

Today we are going to talk about the general topic of chronic illness and how ACT can be applied.

In the early 1900s in the United States, many major health threats were infectious diseases associated with poor hygiene and poor sanitation (e.g., typhoid), diseases associated with poor nutrition (e.g., pellagra and goiter), poor maternal and infant health, and diseases or injuries associated with unsafe workplaces or hazardous occupations (4,5,7,8). (e.g., vaccinations and antibiotics) However, as the incidence of these diseases decreased, chronic diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease and cancer) increased (6,10). In the last half of the century, public health identified the risk factors for many chronic diseases and intervened to reduce mortality. Public efforts also led to reduced deaths attributed to a new technology, the motor vehicle (3). These successes demonstrated the value of community action to address public health issues and have fostered public support for the growth of institutions that are components of the public health infrastructure*.

The focus of public health research and programs shifted to respond to the effects of chronic diseases on the public’s health (12-17). While continuing to develop and refine interventions, enhanced morbidity and mortality surveillance helped to maintain these earlier successes. The shift in focus led to improved capacity of epidemiology and to changes in public health training and programs. Today you will get the chance to meet an expert Dr Abbie Beacham. She is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training at the department of Psychology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OHIO

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This episode concludes the series on ACT processes and focuses on fusion/defusion. Our guest today who helps us to understand how we can relate to our thoughts in a flexible way is Dr. Jason Luoma who is a clinical psychologist and co-founder and director of Portland Psychotherapy Clinic, Research, & Training Center in Portland, Oregon in the USA. He provides training in ACT for audiences around the world, is the author of a book for professionals called Learning Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and was recently elected president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, the organization that is mostly tied to ACT. In addition to being a practicing clinician and an ACT trainer, Jason conducts research on shame, stigma, and self-compassion. His website can found at www.drluoma.com

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope.
Today’s program discusses values work in the ACT model. I have looked at how different researchers around the world work with values in therapy sessions. One of the most innovative persons in the ACT community is Dr Louise Hayes from Australia who has developed something called Values Cards for working with adolescents. In this program Louise explains how she came up with this idea and she also will show in a role play how she uses them. This is an application for young persons but I know that most of us will have use for these values cards she has developed. Dr Louise Hayes www.louisehayes.com.au works at Orygen Youth Research Centre at The University of Melbourne, also in private practice in Victoria Australia, conduct research into treatments for adolescent mental health, and develop resources and books for workers
Book – Get out of your mind and into your life for teens
Website – www.actforadolescents.com

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We live in a culture of quick fixes, immediate gratification. One of the things I love about my iPad is that I can hear about a book and have it downloaded in my iPad within minutes. We want immediate responses to text messages and it hard to remember the weeks we waited for responses handwritten and sent thru the post office. All this has shaped our behavior to expect quick relief from feelings we don’t like, and quick results of what we do want. Criminal behavior is another way of taking shortcuts. Quick money with little effort. Expressing aggressive behavior is also a way to get quick results. As is using drugs to help you do things that normally would be very difficult for a human being to do. 2 years ago Anders Brewick walked on to a young people’s camp in Norway and gunned down xxx young adults and said afterwards that he knew he need to be pumped up with steroids in order to carry out this gruesome plan.

Where do our children learn persistency in the face of difficulty? The ability to stay strong and persistent on a valued direction when the going gets tough? In earlier times we had extended families where many learned from older generations about the value of persistency. We had institutions like churches and scouting that taught the value of persistency. Today’s young people spend more time in front of commercialized forums like internet and TV than with adults. Persistency also called committed action in ACT is recognized as a key process, a skill that needs to be learned and practiced in order to live meaningful vital lives.

Today’s guest is Dr David Brillhart. David is a clinical psychologist specializing in ACT in forensic and correctional settings. Amongst his areas of expertise includes a 20-month groundbreaking pilot study using ACT as a treatment alternative to anger management with Sexually Violent Persons (SVP). He now works at a state psychiatric hospital treating high risk/special needs sex offender patients. Working with this difficult population has afforded David the opportunity to help clients in the community navigate life’s challenges at his private practice, ACT II Psychology. His website is found at: www.actiipsychology.com

Dr David Brillhart
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www.actiipsychology.com

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Acceptance of difficult situations, feelings, or physical pain is not easy. In fact, the idea of being asked to accept difficulties can be provocative. Our guest today, Dr Lance McCracken is certainly an expert on ‘acceptance’ in the field of pain.

Lance is a Professor of Behavioural Medicine and Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychology Lead, INPUT Pain Management Service, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London. Lance was born and grew up in Massachusetts. He has spent the past 20 years focused on development treatments for chronic pain, first in the US and then for the past 13 years, in the UK. When he is done with work he spends his time doing such things as learning to ride a motorcycle around the streets of London, and he has is practical road test on Monday.

A book you might want to take a look at is Mindfulness and Acceptance in Behavioral Medicine, New Harbinger Press.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. We are going to start a series of programs examening the six act process seen to be critical to helping people to become psychologically flexible when challenges arise. These processes for flexibilty are: being in the present moment, taking steps in valued directions, acceptance of what ‘is’, a word called ‘defusion’ meaning to become aware that you have thoughts but are not your thoughts so de fusing yourself from your thoughts, Committed action or persistency and last but not least something called ‘self as context. Self as context and being in the and now which simply means the noticing that there is a YOU that observes thoughts coming, feelings coming and going as well as sensations arising and falling. This YOU is always larger than any of the content of the mind, i e thoughts, feelings sensations.

Todays guest is an ACT expert and one who has spent a considerable amount of her life examining this question of ‘self as context. Dr Lindsay Fletcher, Lindsay Fletcher Hardie is a post-doctoral fellow at the Counseling Center at University of Nevada, Reno. She completed her doctoral training with Steve Hayes, the founder of ACT, and has focused on integrating formal mindfulness practice with ACT protocols.

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Just about every part of the US has been hit by some form of terrorist attack since 1970. Even here in Scandivia where Terrorism has been virtually unknown, we have experience a sucide bomber in the center of stockholm during Christmas shopping rush and the terrorist bombing of the government building in Oslo and the following massicre at young people’s camp out side Oslo by a single individual.Since the Oklahoma city bombing, a greater port of terrorist attacks have been carried out by individuals rather than organized groups. It seems that we all have tendencies to categorize, stereotype each other, evaluate groups as good and bad and polarize positions as right and wrong. Our brains are built to learn and remember bad experiences and this often leads to hatred, racism and violence. Compassion and cooperation can be trained and does make a difference in this world. This program will illustrated how actual training the brain for compassion develops empathy, cooperation and longstanding vital relationships.

This program shows how some basic principles of psychology and evolutionary science can help us make a better world. Left unmanaged, evolution often takes us where we dont want to go.

In 2009 Elinor Ostrom recieved the nobel prize in economics for showing that people that are capable of managing their common resouces on there own but only when certain conditons are met. She was able to identify 8 principles that enable groups to manage common pool resources successfully. These principles are consistent with basic evolutionary dynamics of cooperation in all species and proviea practical guide for any group attempting to achieve common objectives.Today you are going to get a change to listen to an ACT expert who has done just this. Dr Kevin Polk. He is a psychology chief in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system in the USA. He’s best known for developing the Matrix diagram for learning and doing ACT training and therapy. Kevin is the editor and author of a book in progress for New Harbinger called The Matrix: The ACT Hexaflex Made Easy. You can read more about Kevin on his home

page www.drkevinpolk.com. You can read more about Kevin on his home page (here I need your address). which you can find by just clicking his name on this week’s program on Webtalkradio.net.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to do some mythbusting. College students seem to be care free. Well taken care of and with seemedly no responsibility except to study subjects of their choice, have a wonderful social life develop as human beings. Or? In one study examing the mental health of college students shows that students attending a large public university were screened looking at symptoms of anxiety, depression eating disorders and self injury and suicide. Results showed over half of the students sufferered from at least on mental health problem The study showed that mental disorders are common and persistent in the student population. Most of the students do not recieve treatment during the college years.

Today you will get the chance of listening to an expert. Dr Jacqueline Pistorello. — Dr. Jacqueline Pistorello, is the editor of a new volume called Mindfulness and Acceptance for Counseling College Students: Theory and Practical Applications for Intervention, Prevention, and Outreach, by New Harbinger which illustrates how ACT and other mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches are being utilized with college students. Dr. Pistorello is a research and clinical faculty member at Counseling Services at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she has worked with college students for almost 15 years. She has been awarded multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health to research the prevention and treatment of mental health problems among college students.

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Why it matters that we make a more compassion world and what does evolution tell us about cooperation?

The Washington post writes that just about every part of the US has been hit by some form of terrorist attack since 1970. Since the Oklahoma city bombing, a greater port of terrorist attacks have been carried out by individuals rather than organized groups. Stigma is defined as a social mark that leads to discrediting of members of a group such as people with mental illness. Stigmatization usually consists of stereotyping attitudes resulting often is self stigma
At the same time, compassion, mindfulness, meditation, non-violent communication programs aimed at reducing hatred seem to be flourishing in psychology.
Today you are going to get to listen to the founder of ACT, Dr Steven Hayes who has been studying compassion not only from clinical research but also from an evolutionary point of view. Steve is going to tell us

Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., is Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 34 books and over 500 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and has developed “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” a powerful therapy method that is useful in a wide variety of areas. His popular book Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life was featured in Time Magazine among several other major media outlets and for a time was the number one best selling self-help book in the United States. www.stevenchayes.com

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Safety and the prevention of accidents at the workplace is a subject that interests all of us. Accidents and violation of safety regulations can be disastrous not only to those workers and work places that are directly effected by also to society as a whole. It can be loss of human life, loss of public confidence in these services. Examples reported in the news are many from deaths of mine workers due to unsafe mining practices, Death of subway workers due to failure to follow regulations while doing maintenance work to cases of food poisoning due to failure of restaurant workers to observe safety regulations in preparation of food.
Today you will get the chance to hear about how ACT may be used to increase safety behaviors at the workplace. Our guest is Dr DJ Moren who has been developing and implementing ACT programs in a variety of workplaces. DJ is the senior vice president of Quality Safety Edge, and founder of the MidAmerican Psychological Institute. His new book is called Building Safety Commitment You can read more about DJ, and his new book by clicking on his name on this week’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope. www.buildingsafetycommitment.com

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss
something that we hope can be useful for many of us. How ACT and a
sister therapy called CRAFT can help those family members who have
someone close with an addiction. I know from personal experience the
frustration and feelings of hopelessness you can feel around having a
loved one priortize alcohol over her family, over life. And continue to
make this choice resulting in death. I know I reacted as a child by
trying deparately to stop it by emptying out bottles every day to no
use. Not only did I feel helpless but also abandoned and ashamed. This
experience for me has certainly made some serious inprints. It is
estimated that about 3 out of 10 adults report that alcohol has been a problem for their family, while 20% of U.S. adults say that drug use has been a problem for their family. What kind of help is
available? Today you are going to get a chance to talk to an expert. Dr
Christeine Terry. Christeine is a clinical psychologist who has experience and training in ACT and other evidence based therapies for addiction and co-occurring disorders i.e., co-occurring addiction and mental health concerns). She also studies stigma related to substance use and mental health. she became increasingly interested evidence based interventions for family members who have loved ones with addictions and began learning about and practicing Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), an evidence-based treatment for families who have loved ones with addiction.
More information and resources on CRAFT can be found at the Sober Families Website: www.soberfamilies.com. More information on Christeine’s new practice will be forthcoming on the Sober Families website and on Psychology Today.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about a relatively new phenomena that makes psychological treatment assessable and affordable to most of us. It is estimate that one in four persons will suffer from anxiety disorder and one in five will experience serious depression at some point in life. Anxiety and mood disorders are among the most common causes of ill health, lost productivity, and inability to work. Moreover, many of those affected suffer from other physical and mental illnesses. During the past decade, the Internet has presented new options for psychological treatment. Internet-based treatments have the potential to disseminate rapidly and reach patients who otherwise might not receive treatment. Concurrently, this development raises questions concerning how patients are diagnosed, which patient groups receive treatment, and what other options are available. Today you are going to get the chance to listen to an expert in this field, Dr Gerhard Andersson. Gerhard is a professor of clinical psychology at the department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning at Linkoping University in Linkoping Sweden. Gerhard has been developing and evaluating internet psychological treatments for 15 years among other in the many different areas. You can read more about Gerhard on his website www.gerhardandersson.se by clicking on his name on this week’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope
Today we are going to discuss something that many of us know little about but which concerns us all. The mental health of those people that are incarcerated in our prisons. It has been recently shown that the prevalence of mental disorders among prisoners is at least 5 times the rate as in the general population. IN addition, harsh prison conditions cause even more inmates to experience breakdowns, commit suicide, traumatizing formerly normal prisoners making them angry, violent and vulnerable to severe emotional problems. Suicide rates are nine times as high as in the general population. The impacts of racism, rape and post-traumatic stress disorders are significant. How can ACT work to help prisoners behind bars? Today you are going to get the chance to discuss with a psychologist that has spent many years doing just that. Dr. David Brillhart.

David is a clinical psychologist specializing in ACT in forensic and correctional settings. Amongst his areas of expertise includes a 20-month groundbreaking pilot study using ACT as a treatment alternative to anger management with Sexually Violent Persons (SVP). He now works at a state psychiatric hospital treating high risk/special needs sex offender patients. Working with this difficult population has afforded David the opportunity to help clients in the community navigate life’s challenges at his private practice, ACT II Psychology. His website is found at: www.actiipsychology.com

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope.
One thing we all share as parents is the emotional pain of watching your child in pain. Something happens inside us as parents when we see our children suffer that is excruciating and despite the fact the we know better we likely get overwhelmed and do anything to stop the child’s suffering. If we could choose we as parents would probably like to carry all our children’s pain throughout life so that they never needed to suffer. At the same time we know that it is thru these processes of suffering, pain of life that we grow as individuals. How would a person turn out who has never suffered, who has just had an easy time throughout life?
Children with chronic pain is common. 20-35% of children and adolecsénts around the world suffer from chronic pain. The most common pain conditions are musculosketal pain, headaches and stomach pain. It is a great cost emotionally and socially as the result of associated disability as well as economically for the parents with direct and indirects costs from healthcare utilization, lost of wages due to time off work to care for the child.
A child’s chronic pain undermines school performance and social and emotional health, erodes finances, and devastates the family.

Today you are going to get a chance to talk to an expert on this subject Dr Kevin Vowles. Kevin is a clinical psychologist who specializes in the rehabilitation of adults, young adults, and teenagers with chronic health conditions. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology University of New Mexico.
His work with young people has often highlighted that parents are often also suffering significantly.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to discuss something that has been said to be the biggest causes of emotional problems: Shame. The word shame means to hide or to cover up. We all feel shame from time to time. Shame makes our problems seem bigger and makes us seem smaller and alone with what we feel. Shame makes us want to bury our heads in the sand and hope either me or the problem or both will disappear. It is one thing to have and experience painful emotions that are inevitable in life but shame makes it worse. Shame makes you want to get away from problem, the emotion or the whole situation. Shames makes you feel lonesome, weak, inadequate.

Today you are going to get the chance to talk to one of the few people who has studied shame and done it from an ACT perspective, Dr Jason Luoma. Jason is a clinical psychologist and co-founder and director of the Portland Psychotherapy, a research and training clinic in Portland, Oregon. He provides training in ACT for audiences around the world and was recently elected president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, the organization that is mostly tied to ACT. In addition to being a practicing clinician and an ACT trainer, Jason conducts research on shame, stigma, and self-compassion. His website found at www.drluoma.com.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have a discussion about something we all do but when we do it alot, we get ourselves into trouble. Eating or not eating for emotional reasons.

Think about why you eat. You already know what foods are healthy for you and what are so called ‘junk foods’ . Despite knowing all this that you probably find yourself craving potato chips or chocolate or cookies. When you feel happy you might want to feel even better by ordering a pizza. If you feel sad you might crave some ice cream. Emotional eating is about eating especially high calorie, high sugar and salt foods with the aim of changing feelings, or more specifically trying to get rid of bad feelings like boredom, loneliness, anxiety. Emotional hunger can feel like an obsession that needs to be satisfied instantly with certain foods, what is often called comfort foods. Comfort foods are available everywhere and usually much cheaper than healthy foods. According to research, 75%of overeating is caused by emotions we are trying to manage.

Today you will get the chance to speak to an expert Dr Emmett Bishop, Medical Director, Adult Services, Eating Recovery Center in Denver, Colorado. He is a past president and fellow of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals and a fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are having a discussion
about a potentially dangerous psychological disorder called depression.
People who suffer from depression are more susceptible to medical
illness, possible suicide and may have shorter life span. About 60 % of
people who become depressed are likely to become depressed again.
Statistically most depressions last for about 6 months, for others dpression can go
on for years. Certainly depression is something to watch out for and
know what kind of help to get as early as possible. Today you are going
to get a chance to talk to an expert on depression and expert on a
leading treatment method called Behavioral Activation. Behavioral
Activation is fellow traveler with ACT. Dr Christopher Martell is a
psychologist and depression researcher. He taught in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, and superivsed Ph.D. students in Psychology. He is currently a Clinical Associate
Professor inthe Department of Psychology at the
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. Dr. Martell writes, consults and
speaks internationally about Behavioral Activation Therapy and
maintained a private psychotherapy practice for 23 years. Christopher has written a
number of books on this subject, including a workbook for individuals dealing with depression: Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time, that he wrote with Dr. Michael Addis. You can read more
about Christopher and purchase a copy of the book through leading on-line booksellers on his home page which you can get to by clicking his
name on this week’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope. http://www.christophermartell.com

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about sports. About how Psychology and ACT can be used to help athletes perform with precision and efficacy and at the same time increase their own balance and well being. Most of us have probably played some sports during our school years. When I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s in the US any young person interested in a sport could play in some function or another. Today there seems to be much more competition and high stakes involved in sports, even for young children. In order to reach the highest levels, children train from early ages.

Sports psychology involves the study of how psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sports and exercise affect psychological and physical factors. Commonly sports psychologist would with the training of athletes, coaches, parents for performance improvment but also rehabilitation, communication, and team building.

Today you are going to meet a psychologist who has his heart in sports psychology. Dr Tobias Lundgren is an Assistant Professor at the University of Stockholm, he is the author of a couple of ACT books and a number of scientific articles. He co-authored a best selling self help book together with me called Living Beyond Your Pain. Tobias is also the psychologist for Modo the Swedish Elite Ice Hockey Team. You can read more about Tobias on his website by clicking his name on today’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope.

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Welcome to ACT , taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have a conversation about something that is centrally important to all of us in every stage of life from the new born child, through all of childhood, adolescence, young adults, middle aged persons and right through to those who are at the end stages of life. Intimacy. One definition of intimacy that might cover all stages of life could be a physical and emotional connection between two people. An intimate relationship is often defined as an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotion intimacy. It is not necessarily sexual in content but may be. REsearch shows that physical and emotional connection is just as much a basic need as it food and shelter. Humans have a general desire to belong and to love which is usually fulfilled in an intimate relationship. Intimate relationships provide a social network for people that provide strong emotional attachments and fulfill our needs to care for and be cared for. Because intimacy is so important it is also very very scary. Just the very thing we all long for, closeness, connection, feeling seen and accepted at the core level from another human being is just the thing we most often avoid. Animals don’t seem to have this problem. They seem to seek and enjoy intimacy when it is available. We, on the other hand complicate things by letting our fears of rejection overcloud and steer our actions. The tragedy is that even when intimacy is possible and available, we may avoid it in the service of avoidance the pain of possible rejection. According to ACT, this bizarre behavior is the product of human languaging.

Today we are going to have a discussion about how you can help yourself improve your own intimacy by using a therapeutic approach that is a sister therapy to ACT called FAP or Functional analytic Psychotherapy. YOu are about to meet an expert and a co-founder of this sister therapy to ACT, Dr Mavis Tsai. Mavis is a clinical psychologist in independent practice and the Director of the FAP Specialty Clinic at the University of Washington. She is the co-author of 4 books and over 50 publications. She has presented “Master Clinician” sessions at the Association for Behavior and Cognitive Therapy, and has led numerous workshops nationally and internationally.) Her latest book, written with Robert Kohlenberg, Jonathan Kanter, Gareth Holman and Mary Plummer Loudon, is entitled “Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Distinctive Features: to go to the website faptherapy.com and contact us to be included in our Intimacy Now project where we will teach intimacy skills for the general public.

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we have an especially attractive program for you. Something we are all interested in but may have difficulties in expressing because of the ways we were brought up. We are going to talk about sex. Sexual feelings are unpredictable, confusing and many times hard to control. Some of us are lucky to grow up in families that help us to accept our sexual feelings as natural phenomena that come and go. We may also learn that sexual feelings and sexual behavior are two very different things. We have little or no control over our feelings but full control over our behavior. Probably, though most of us have experienced what is called emotional suppression in our upbringing. This means we are taught by our families or our religion or schools that sexual feelings must be suppressed. Today, we know that this type of emotional suppression causes problems both emotional and physical. 
Today you are going to get to talk to an expert Aisling Curtin. Aisling is a Counselling Psychologist and director of ACT Now Ireland. She has a special interest in looking at sexuality from an ACT lens and has led workshops in this topic internationally.
Her new blog “Let’s talk about Sex! (Psychologically Flexibly)” will start in April 2013. The best way to keep up to date with the blog and upcoming events is through the ACT Now Ireland Facebook page.

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Today we are going to talk about something that we all feel from time to
time : Depression. This means that we feel low, or sad or down in the dumps.
Sometimes we may have a so called reason for feeling unhappy. we may have
just experienced a loss. This could be a loss of a function, like a hearing
loss or a loss of a loved one in death or separation. It could be a loss of
a job or friends when we have moved away. Sometimes we can feel blue for no
particular reason. What we call clinical depression is what is called a mood
disorder in which these types of feelings of sadness interfere with everyday
life for a longer period of time. Symptoms of depression can be for example,
feeling low most of the time, loosing pleasure in actiivities that you
normal enjoy, trouble sleeping, or sleep too much.

Changes in you appetite, with either weight gain or weight loss, tiredness,
lack of energy, feelings of worthlessness. the person who is depressed can
have difficulty concentrating. One of the most important symptoms of
depression is that a person avoids activities. Thoughts of death and suicide
are also common.

Today you are going to get the chance to listen to an expert.

Dr Robyn Walser who has worked for many years with ACT with trauma at TL
consultation services, and she also at Veterans Adminsitration in Palo Alto
Ca. Robyn is author of several ACT books among others Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy for the treatment of Robyn is author of several ACT books
among others Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for the treatment of
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems . You can read
more about Robyn and her books on her website by clicking on her name on
this program webtalkradio.net

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Welcome to ACT Taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about
how we can help ourselves and those dear to us when we get a life
threatening illness and or when we are faced with the fact that we don?
t have long to live. We all know we will die at some point and most of
us have an idea that we will live healthy to a ripe old age and then
die peacefully. It can be quite a chock to get a diagnosis of cancer,
for example in mid life or even as a young person. How we relate to
this information and to the natural degeneration of our bodies or the
changes in loved ones is most important. It is natural to feel grief
and sadness about an impending death of a loved one. And it becomes
even more important how we spend this precious final stage in life.
Today you will have the opportunity of listening to an expert Dr Ray
Owen who is a clinical psychologist specialized in the impact of severe
physical health problems mostly cancer care and palliative care. Ray
works at the National Health Service in the UK in Oncology clinics and
Hospice Settings. Ray is the authors of ‘Facing the Storm:Using CBT,
Mindfulness and Acceptance to Build Resilience When Your World’s
Falling Apart’://www.routledgementalhealth.com/books/details/9780415676595/ ) and a forthcoming ‘Living
with the Enemy:Coping with the stress of chronic illness using CBT,
Mindfulness and Acceptance’. You can read more about Ray and his books
on his website drrayowen.co.uk

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Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Join us today for a discussion of something that we probably all have felt from time to time. Stress at the workplace. Work is often listed at the top when we think of what makes us happy. But on the other hand the word ?work? is often thought of as a necessary evil. Something that we think of that we ?must? do rather than something that we choose. Work-related stress is defined as a harmful reaction people have to undue pressures and demands place on them at work. Of the total number of cases of stress 2011-2012 about 40 % are work related. The industries that report the highest rates of work related stress are social work, education, public administration and defense. The occupations that report hight rates of work related stress are teachers, caregivers and housing associate professionals.
The main work activities attributed or what is causing the work related stress was work pressure, lack of mangerial support and work related violence and bullying.
Are there really jobs that are good or bad or is it how we relate to them that is important.
Today you are going to get the chance to listen to an expert in the field. Dr Frank Bond. Frank is a professor and Director of the Institute of Management Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London in London. He is also an author of a new book about ACT and Stress at work called The Mindful and Effective Employee . You can read more about Frank, his research at his home page: http://www.gold.ac.uk/ims/staff/bond

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Welcome to another episode of ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about a hurt we have all experienced to some degree and probably found our way out of, at least to some degree. Something we might called displacement. You have probably moved from one town to another, one school to another. Maybe one country to another. Moving from familiar surroundings of what we might call ‘home’ to a strange place causes feelings of disorientation and uncertainty. This is a challenge that requires psychological flexibility to adjust to the new surroundings and create a new life. PTSD, post traumatic stress syndrome is about 10 times higher for refugees than in the general population. In 2002 U.S. Committee for Refugees estimated that there were 14.9 million refugees and 22 million internally displaced persons in the world. Today in a recent World Disaster report by the International Red Cross, more than 70 million people in the world are so called forced migrants. This is more than one in every 100 of the world citizens who are displaced by conflict, political upheaval, violence and diasters and also by climate change and development projects. Most of these migrants will be permanently displaced. This escalating international crisis has developed over the past 60 years as organized political violence has increasingly targeted civilian populations. The Red Cross has calculated the cost to the international community is at least 8 billion US dollars a year.

These refugees are men, women, and children, from virtually every income level and living arrangement. As refugees they have often left behind their livelihood, their communities, and most of all of their possessions. Although a large number of the individuals adjust well, many suffer significant psychological distress as a result of their exposure to traumatic events and the hardships associated with life as a refugee.

Today we are going to talk to a psychologist, Niklas Möller who works at the International Red Cross Centre for victims of war and torture in Uppsala, Sweden. We are going to learn about who these refugees are, what types of problems they come with and how Acceptance and Comittment Therapy can be helpful to refugees in adjusting and creating a valued life in a new world.
You can read more about what the Red Cross does at http://www.redcross.org/ / and contact Niklas on his email mailto:[email protected] by clicking on Niklas name on webtalkradio.net

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Welcome to ACT, taking hurt to hope. Join us today for a discussion about a special kind of struggle. All of us who are parents know that bringing up children is a challenge. For parents with special needs children, it may be even more of a challenge. In this program we are going to discuss about the special difficulties for families that have experienced trauma like death, violence, or children with severe emotional or behavioral problems or children with chronic illness.
Today we have with us Associate Professor and Director of the Early Childhood Research Clinic, Dr. Lisa Coyne from Suffolk University in Boston . Lisa is an internationally recognised ACT trainer and author of a book called The Joy of Parenting: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years (http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Parenting-Acceptance-Commitment-Effective/dp/157224593X).
You can contact Lisa bymail which you can get to by clicking her name on this week’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope. YOu can read more about her book by clicking on the link here.

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Welcome to ACT: taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about something we probably all do to ourselves and others on a daily basis and something which is more harmful psychological than you think. Stigma. Stigma is defined as the dehumanization of an individual based on a social identity or participation in a negative or undesirable social category. Commonly we might call others or ourselves as idiots, fatsos, or might call someone a slush, a whore, or a gangster. A person who is stigmatized is devalued and seen as seriously flawed. Experience of being stigmatized over and over can have serious consequences but one thing you may not have thought of that happens, is something that mat to lead to something even more serious and that is internalization of the stigma. This means that for example if you have been called fat and lazy a number of times, you may start to believe yourself that you are fat and lazy. You may talk about yourself in that way and spread your own stigmatization. Experiences of stigma whether you hear it from others or you do it to yourself may have serious behavior health problem and problems getting a job. It is also related to poorer self esteem and lower quality of life. Today we are going to have a discussion about how ACT has been used successfully to help people work with their own stigma both towards themselves and subsequently towards others. This is a process that might be called self acceptance or to use a trendy word in psychology today, Self compassion.
Our guest today is Dr Steven Hayes. Steve is Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is known for an analysis of human language and cognition (Relational Frame Theory), and its application to various psychological difficulties (his work on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Steve is the author of more than 30 books 500 scientific articles. Among others a very popular book called Get Out of You Mind and Into Your Life
You can read more about Steve, his books and articles on his home page by clicking his name on this week’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope, Webtalkradio.net. You can read more about ACT by clicking on Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

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Join us today for a discussion about a common problem, a problem that about 20% of people between the ages of 55 and 65 have. Tinnitus. The word tinnitus means simply ringing. It is defined as the perception of sound with the ear when there is no corresponding external sound. That is you hear a ringing that others dont hear. Tinnitus is not a disease but a condition that may have a multiple number of causes. It is usually accompanied by hearing loss. Usually this is a noise induced hearing loss. What does tinnitus have to do with psychology? Well, tinnitus is a subjective experience and how we react to it determines to what extent it will limit our lives.

Today we are going to have the chance to discuss this with a Tinnitus expert. Our guest today is Dr Gerhard Andersson. Gerhard is a professor of clinical psychology at the university of Linköping in Sweden. Gerhard is the author of TINNITUS – A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

Remember that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has three main processes: Open up to any private events within you, that is to thoughts, to sensations or feelings, then become aware of the true nature of these private event, for example, comes a sensation that changes immediately and leaves again or a thought just came and went. These private events are not me, they are experienced by me. And lastly engaging in valued activities together with any private event, that is any feelings or sensations or thoughts that may be present.

You can read more about Gerhard on his website (WWW.GERHARDANDERSSON.SE) by clicking on his name on this week’s episode of ACT taking hurt to hope onwebtalkradio.net

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Join me for a discussion of something which is very important and very secret for many, painful intercourse. If you get pain during intercourse, you are not alone. In a recent Swedish survey taking, 1 out of 10 women experience pain, with a higher frequency among younger more sexually inexperienced woman and fewer if you are over 50. This is a special problem since sex is supposed to be enjoyable and happy experience, and this type of pain definately puts a damper on the specific experience but could even seriously threaten your intimate relationship.
Today we are going to get the chance to talk to an expert. We are going to learn how
Sexual pain is similar to other physical pains in that it includes both pure pain and a large portion of dirty pain in terms of shame, guilt, negative assumptions of self and threatening thoughts about what the pain means. We are also going to learn how ACT can help you with these symptoms. Remember that ACT is about opening up to what you are actually feeling here and now, becoming aware of thoughts, feelings and sensations for what they really are rather than what they say they are and engaging in valued action.

Our guest today is Dr Johanna Thomten who is a clinical psychologist and researcher and Lecturer at Mid University in Östersund Sweden. You can learn more about Johanna by clicking on her website: http://www.miun.se/sv/universitetet/Organisation/institutioner/shv/Om-SHV/Amnesavdelningar/Psykologi/Om-avdelningen/Medarbetare/Johanna-Thomten/

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How is writing stage plays similar to psychotherapy in general and ACT in particular? In general, all drama is telling a story about the adventures of a character who, in trying to achieve an aim, is faced with obstacles, he or she struggles with and in most cases, overcomes.
The hero?s struggles with the obstacles constitutes the drama. In psychotherapy, the client also has an aim or what we call in ACT for a valued direction, and is also faced with obstacles which most often pull him off track. A person comes to therapy for exactly this reason.
He or she is reacting to these obstacles or challenges in ways that often provide short term relief but which in the long run are self destructive. The job of the psychotherapist and ACT therapist is to help the person to react to these obstacles in a more flexible manner which helps him to learn from this challenge and get back on track with his life. This is exactly what the author does with his hero.
Today we are going to learn more about how these two very different professions actually share the same processes.
Our guest today is the prominent American playwright Michael Downend member of PEN, Dramatist Guild, Writers Guild of America, Playwright Center. Michael is the author of High Thin Cirrus, The Light fro Distant Objects . You can read more about Michael on his website [email protected] by clicking on his name on this week?s ACT taking hurt to hope on webtalkradio.net

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Lets talk about a psychological state that has gotten a bad wrap. Anxiety. Anxiety is very common just before we are confronted with something challenging like a test, a work interview, public speaking or getting married. In most cases this is not a problem, Just a natural reaction to this challenge. In many cases this has to do with me being evaluated. When anxiety gets out of proportion and starts to interfere with your everyday function, you might get a diagnosis. There are usually three parts of anxiety: a worrying part sometimes called catastrophizing, a physiological part where we get revved up for fight or flight and a behavior part where we normally avoid but can also become aggressive.
Today we are going to learn more about anxiety from an expert Dr Andrew Gloster. Andrew is a psychologist and Assistant Professor at the Universtiy of Basel in Switzerland. http://psycho.unibas.ch/die-fakultaet/personen/profil/person/andrew-gloster/Andrew does research there about anxiety. He is like me an American living in Europe, A husband and a father of 2 boys. Read more about how ACT approaches Anxiety in this book: Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Acceptance-Workbook-Anxiety-Commitment/dp/1572244992

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Join us today in a subject that we all talk about, and none of us like it but really we don’t know what it is. Stress. What is stress? In one definition I have seen. Stress us an instinctive defense reaction that helps us survive. Our stress reaction is powerfully intelligent. This stress reaction prepares us for physical activity, our body reacts with increase heart rate, higher blood pressure and effective breathing. Our muscles tense and immune defense gets activated. stress hormones like adrenaline gets pumped out. What is the problem with stress? What can we do about it? Our guest today is Fredrik LIvheim. Fredrik is a psychologist an internationally recognized ACT trainer. Fredrik is clinical researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and has worked with developing and evaluating programs for using ACT for Stress for teenagers in Schools and for social workers and teacher. Fredriks home page is presently only in Swedish but if you would like to contact him you can reach him at this address:mailto:[email protected]

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Join us today for a discussion about what I think is the most difficult, the most painful and the greatest source of joy in my life, parenting children. Parenting is stressful. There’s no way of getting around that. And since we don’t like stress, we all have the tendency to avoid. One of the main ways parents avoid stress when dealing with children is to try and control the emotional reactions of the child. This move gets us into all kinds of trouble.
Our guests today are Dr D.J Moran, the executive director of the MidAmerican Psychological Institute and Dr. Melissa Rowland, clinical fellow at the MidAmerican Psychological Institute. DJ is a coauthor of ACT in Practice, a book about case conceptualization in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and he is a recognized ACT trainer. He is also on the board of directors of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences. He and Melissa have been working together on ACT-based projects since 2009. One of the important topics they have team up on parent training and helping parents deal with stress. You can find out more about DJ’s book, ACT in Practice by going to actinpractice.com and stay in contact with them by going to the MidAmerican Psychological Institute website: www.theMPInstitute.com

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Join us today for a discussion about one of the most common reasons people stay home from work and one of our best held secrets, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). This is a disorder that may feel like cramps or stomach pain. The stomach is directly connected to the brain in special ways so that those same nerves that cause stress also cause our gut to become more sensitive and tend to squeeze or contract and this hurts!. About one in 6 people in the US have symptoms of IBS making it our most common stomach problem.
Today’s guest is Dr Nuno Ferreria who is a Teaching Fellow in Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a coauthor of a new book that just came out on using ACT for IBS. This book is called Better Living with IBS . You can read more about Nuno and this new book by clicking on his name on this week’s program ACT taking hurt to hope on Webtalkradio.com. Nuno is going to show us how to use these ACT principles for Irritable Bowel Symdrom.

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Join us today for a discussion about an issue that most all of us have experience of in one way or another. Drinking problems.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there are at least 140 million alcoholics in the world, and the majority of them are not treated. A US study estimated that about 30% of Americans report having an alcoholic disorder at some time in their lives. Besides personal costs alcoholism affects people around us.
The NIH says that over half of all American traffic deaths are alcohol-related.
Employment problems, unemployment, school problems, are often alcohol-related.
Alcohol is a major factor in spouse beating, child abuse, and conflicts with neighbors.
Suicide rates among people who are alcohol-dependent or who abuse alcohol are much higher than among other people
Our guest today is Dr Kelly Wilson who is a professor at the University of Mississippi and one of the co-developers of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Kelly is the author of a new book The wisdom to know the difference: ACT workbook for overcoming substance abuse which is available at amazon.com or on his home page
http://www.onelifellc.com/welcome.html
Today we learn that substance abuse is just another way to avoid feelings we don’t like. The effect of a short term relief is powerful even though we know well that it causes so many problems for ourselves and for those around us. So, instead of using substance to help us feel good and avoid feeling bad, we need to get on a path that helps us to instead learn to FEEL good or to get better att feeling .

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Join us today for a discussion about what we do when reality slaps us
in the face.
Events that come out of left field in life can and do hurt. Reality
slaps us much harder when identify ourselves with certain pictures of
the way our lives ?should look?. What happens, for example, when you
identify yourself as a solid married person and suddenly your partner
leaves you? A slap from reality hurts. No doubt about it, and when we
hurt we naturally brace ourselves with resistance or non-acceptance.
You can feel this resistance in every body cell. A tension, like a lock
down. And you can see thoughts like, this isn’t fair, Why me? Not now,
Just when things were going so well. This lock down in resistance
causes suffering.
Today, our guest is Dr Russ Harris. Russ is an Australian physician and
ACT trainer who is the author of many popular ACT self help books.
Among others Russ is the author of a book called The Reality Slap. You
can read more about Russ and all of his books on his home page www.thehappinesstrap.com.
You will find his page as well as the link to this book by clicking
on his name on this weeks program on webtalkradio.net. Russ Harris has
shows us 4 basic steps of how to go from the hurt of grief and loss to
hope. Thank you for joining us today

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We never learn in school how to deal with those chronic illnesses that we carry and which break out at some point in our lives. Join us today as we speak with Dr David Gillanders http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/health/clinical-psychology/people/teaching-staff?person_id=20&cw_xml=profile.php from the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. David has vast experience of working with most chronic illness from skin disorders to infectious diseases. He disputes the idea of disorders being psychological or physical but rather shows us how ACT can help us relate to any disorder in a flexible way while moving in a vital direction. In this program David shows us how to use the metaphor of sailing to understand how to put our energy in places that help us keep on track rather than get exhausted trying to solve the unsolvable. If you are suffering from a chronic illness and feel stuck, you will benefit from this program.

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Suicide means the process of purposely ending one’s own life. Nearly one million people worldwide commit suicide each year, and somewhere between 10 -20 million attempt suicide. For teenagers and young adults suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death and rates are on the increase. As far as we know human beings are the only species on this earth that commits suicide. How can ACT help to prevent suicide? Join us today in talking with Dr Kevin Polk, who is the psychology chief in the Veterans Affaris Health Care system in the US. Kevin is best known for developing the Matrix diagram for learning and doing ACT training and therapy.You can read more about Kevin on his home page www.drkevinpolk.com.
In this program Kevin tells us about how the Matrix helps people to just notice a point of view and see if the point of view they are operating from is working for them. People usually notice that suicidal thoughts and gestures move them away from the persons they care about.
From this point of view this person is likely to see other options than suicide.

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Each one of us has experienced traumatic events and experienced reactions like shock, denial, anger and maybe unexpected emotions. These are natural reactions. In the long term some people continue to experience problems related to trauma that create obstacles for living a valued life. Join us today for a discussion of how ACT approaches trauma. My guest today is Dr Robyn Walser, http://www.TLConsultationServices.com an admired ACT therapist who has worked for many years with trauma at the Veterans Adminstration Hospital in Palo Alto California. Robyn is also the author of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Related Problems http://www.amazon.com/Acceptance-Commitment-Treatment-Post-Traumatic-Trauma-Related/dp/1608823334/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351059759&sr=1-1&keywords=robyn+walser In this program you will hear how Robyn approaches Trauma in general as well as how she works directly as a therapist with trauma victims. Join us!

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You have probably stood outside your door and felt unsure you shut of the stove or locked a door and that uneasiness might have sparked some checking rituals. This is natural but problems arise when these rituals take up more and more time and energy from your valued life. In today’s program you will learn from an expert, Dr Michael Twohig, http://psychology.usu.edu/people/Michael-P-Twohig/ Associate Professor at the department of Psychology at Utah State University about how ACT approaches OCD. Mike tells us about typical symptoms and how we can learn to accept feelings of uneasiness without the time consuming rituals. Michael Twohig is the author of Twohig, M. P., & Hayes, S. C. ACT verbatim for depression and anxiety: Annotated transcripts for learning acceptance and commitment therapy. http://www.amazon.com/ACT-Verbatim-Depression-Anxiety-Transcripts/dp/1572245239/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350919924&sr=8-1&keywords=twohig

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Teenagers may look and act grown up but they are inexperienced and need nurturing. They need to learn how to get comfortable with inevitable discomfort of adolescence. Join us today as we talk to Dr Louise Hayes from

Orygen Youth Research Centre at The University of Melbourne, in Australia who develops treatment for adolescent mental health. Louise is the author of Get out of your mind and into your life for teens. Louise gives us very concrete ways to help teenagers to finder inner strength, develop a wise view and discover their way in life. Parents to teenagers, teachers and community workers have much to learn from Louise.

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Join us today for a discussion about mindfulness, what it is, how it can be used to improve your relationships, especially your intimate relationships. Today you will get a chance to try a mindfulness exercise and get some advice from an expert on how you can use these mindfulness skills to help you relate better to those close to you. In Acceptance and Commitment therapy, Mindfulness is a core component in helping people become aware of the difference between what is actually going on in the moment in contrast to what your thoughts say is going on. Our guest today is Dr Jonathan Kaplan who is a clinical psychologist practicing in New York City, he also teaches at the New School for Public Engagement. Jonathan is the author of a book called Urban Mindfulness: Cultivating Peace, Presence and Purpose in the Middle of it All. You can find this book on Amazon.com. You can learn more about Jonathan by visiting his website, jonathanskaplan.com.

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We would all like to spare children pain and suffering. But it may be more important to help children to face painful challenges and at the same time live a full vital life rather than avoid pain at the cost of a full life. Join us today as we talk to Dr Rikard Wicksell, a clinical researcher and and ACT therapist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm working with children with chronic pain. Listen to how Rikard uses the Pain monster to help children go from hurt to hope.

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Hearing voices or seeing things other people don’t perceive is a phenomena that isn’t necessarily a problem, but the ways one reacts to these experiences and the ways others around us react can create severe problems. Rather than trying to alleviate these experiences, it is more helpful to make room for them and put your valuable energy back into you life. Join us today as we talk to Dr Joe Oliver who is a clinical psychologist in London working within a Early Intervention for Psychosis Service which is part of the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Joe is coming out with a book on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis, due out early next year, published by Wiley-Blackwell: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111995080

Joe helps us to see how persons with extraordinary experiences like hearing voices can finds ways to relate to these experiences that help them to stay on track in a vital life.

www.contextualconsulting.co.uk

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1119950805.html

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Most of us are struggling with extra weight and no weight loss program seems to help. In fact they don’t. Research shows that nearly everyone regains lost weight in any available program within 2-3 years. Join us today as we talk to Dr Jason Lillis, a psychologist and Assistant Professor at Brown University , author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, as he tells us the latest trends in effective ways to lose weight. Discover why self compassion is the best place to start rather than dissatisfaction with yourself and how getting back into your vital life now, rather than later is the best recipe for weight loss.

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When pain was unavoidable, it was bearable, when pain became avoidable it became unbearable. Our health care system and culture has found more and more ways to avoid pain and we get more and more sensitive and intolerant of pain. Join us today as we speak to Dr Brian Kirsh http://www.uhn.ca/clinics_&_services/clinics/pain.asp a psychiatrist with a pain specialty from the University of Toronto who shows us how he works with people suffering from chronic pain using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Dr Brian Kirsh had his own history of pain which has helped him to understand and help others to carry pain as they go forward and live vital valuable live. You can read more about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy at the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science http://contextualpsychology.org/

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It hurts to live. Living a full life means feeling a full range of feelings. It seems that we have become less and less tolerant of feelings and sensations we don’t like. Maybe instead of trying to feel GOOD all the time, we should try and FEEL good, and actually allow all our natural feelings and sensations move through us, rather than just those we like. Join me as I discuss with Dr Steven Hayes, stevenchayes.com A Nevada Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, and founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and author of Getting out of your mind and into your life, http://www.amazon.com/Get-Your-Mind-Into-Life/dp/1572244259/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345745083&sr=1-1&keywords=get+out+of+your+mind+and+into+your+life among many other books. Discover how you who are suffering right now from a life challenge can help yourself feel that hurt but limit your suffering. Dr Steve Hayes will provide you with the 3 basic principles of ACT therapy as well as give you some concrete advice about how to take hurt to hope. You can read more about ACT here http://contextualpsychology.org/

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