Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Chronic Pain
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Week #1 The Science and Theory of ACT
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👉 Welcome to ACT for Chronic Pain
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🎥 Language, Cognition and Suffering
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🎥 Metaphors in ACT
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🎥 Illusion of Control
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🎥 Psychological flexibility & hexaflex model
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🖨 ACT week 1 slides
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🖨 ACT week 1 more slides :)
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🧩 Processes Targeted with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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📈 Paper - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach
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🧠 Quicksand Metaphor
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🧠 Hungry Tiger Metaphor
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🍾 Week #1 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional Reading- Comparison Between an Acceptance-Based and a Cognitive-Control-Based Protocol for Coping With Pain
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Feedback
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Week #2 Stuck, Not Broken - Creative hopelessness and workability
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🎥 ACT Week 2
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🖨 ACT Week 2 Slides
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🧩 Creative Hopelessness Transcript
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📝 Pain Management Inventory
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📝 Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form- Experiential Avoidance
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📈 Paper - The impact of experiential avoidance on the relations between illness representations, pain catastrophising and pain interference in chronic pain
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🧠 Life's a Beach Metaphor
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🧠 Chinese Finger Trap Metaphor
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🍾 Week #2 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional Reading - The Role of Experiential Avoidance, Resilience and Pain Acceptance in the Adjustment of Chronic Back Pain Patients Who Have Experienced a Traumatic Event: a Path An
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Feedback
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Week #3 Values-Guided Action
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🎥 ACT Week #3
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🖨 ACT Week #3 Slides
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📝 Bulls Eye Exercise
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🧩 Bull's Eye Transcript
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📝 Life Compass
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🧩 Values Words
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📝 Valued-Living-Questionnaire
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form-Values
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📈 Paper - Towards a physically more active lifestyle based on one’s own values: the results of a randomized controlled trial among physically inactive adults
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🧠 Compass Metaphor
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🍾 Week #3 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional - Trying on a Value
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🤓 Optional - VA Values and Committed Action
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🤓 Optional - Acceptance and values-based action in chronic pain: A three-year follow-up analysis of treatment effectiveness and process
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Feedback
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Coaching Calls
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Coaching Call Access
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Week #4 Cognitive Defusion
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🎥 Defusion 1
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🎥 Defusion 2
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🖨 Week #4 slides
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🎥 Mindfulness Defusion Exercises
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🖨 Mindfulness & Defusion Transcript
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📝Thoughts About Pain/The Protector Within
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📝Clean and Dirty Pain
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📝Pain Chain
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📝 Hooked By Thoughts
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📝Cognitive Fusion Questionaire
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form - Defusion
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📈Paper - Cognitive Restructuring Cognitive Defusion for Negative Thoughts
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🍾Week #4 Quiz
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🤓Optional- VA Defusion Video
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Feedback
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Week 5 - Nurturing Acceptance
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🧠Ice Cube Experiential Exercise
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🎥 Week #5 Acceptance
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🖨 Acceptance slides
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🎥 Allowing Exercise
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🖨 Allowing Exercise Transcript
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🎥 Picking Apart the Pain Monster
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🖨 Picking Apart the Pain Monster Transcript
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🎥 Mindful Emotions
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🖨 Mindful Emotions Transcript
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🎥 Creating Your Pain Monster
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🖨 Creating Your Pain Monster Transcript
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🎥 The Posture of Pain
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🖨 The Posture of Pain Transcript
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🧩Alternatives to Acceptance
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🧩 Examples of Acceptance Techniques
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📝 ACT Exposure Worksheet
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🧠 A Big List of Acceptance Metaphors
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form - Acceptance
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📝 Acceptance and values-based action in chronic pain: A three-year follow-up analysis of treatment effectiveness and process
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🍾Week #5 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional - VA Willingness Video
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🤓 Optional - Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale
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Feedback
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Week #6 Present Moment Awareness & Self as Context
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🎥 Present moment awareness
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🎥 Time Traveler Present moment awareness exercise
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🖨 Transcript - Time Traveler Present moment awareness exercise
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🎥 Body Scan Meditation
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🖨 Transcript - Body Scan Meditation
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🎥 Self as Context
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🎥 Observer Self Exercise 1 & 2
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🖨Transcript - Observer Self Exercise 1 & 2
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🎥 Talking and Listening
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🎥 The Continuous You
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🎥 Let Yourself Go
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🎥 The Sky and the Weather
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🖨 Self As Context transcripts
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🧠 PMA & SAC Metaphors
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📝 State Mindfulness Scale for Physical Activity
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📝 Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form PMA & SAC
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🍾 Week #6 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional - Observing Self VA
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🤓 Optional - Present Moment Awareness VA
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Feedback
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Week 7 -Committed Action
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🎥 Committed Action
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🖨 Committed Action
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📝 The Willingness and Action Plan
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🧠 Committed Action Metaphors
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form Action
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🍾 Week #7 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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Feedback
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Week 8 Bonuses
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🖨 ACT for Pain Therapists Guide
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🎥 Dancing Around The Hexaflex
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📈 Paper - Current status of acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain: a narrative review
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🎥 VA Acceptance Video
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Feedback