Avoidance and Control in ACT: Moving Towards Psychological Flexibility

Sonja-Batten

Booz Allen
Department of Veterans Affairs
Yale University
University of Nevada, Reno

Key Points

  1. Avoidance is a common way of responding to painful thoughts, feelings, and memories.
  2. Toward the beginning of treatment, introduce the concept that trying to control these experiences related to the trauma is part of the problem.
  3. The ACT therapist informs the client about how this approach to treatment is different.
  4. Ask the client to commit to a specific number of sessions and then to judge whether their life is becoming more workable.

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