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Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people make the adjustment to
living with a long-term condition
Living Well as the First Medicine
Jim LucasACBS Peer Reviewed ACT [email protected]
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My Thanks:
Ray Owen Robyn WalserSarah Gillanders Steve HayesDavid Gillanders Kelly WilsonRichard Bennett Lance McCrackenJoe Oliver Liz BurnsidePatricia Robinson Kirk Strosahl
The rest of the ACBS community…www.contextualscience.org
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Overview
Processes & Principles of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
The extent and experience of living with a long-term condition(s)
Evidence-base for ACT
History of ACT, Behaviourism and Contextual Behavioural Science incl. RFT
The importance of Evolutionary Science
The Stance of the ACT Therapist
Psychological Flexibility – Six Core Processes
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The kNowledge & Experience in ACT Determination (NERD)
Used ACT a
bit
Used ACT a LOT
Jedi Level ACT
Never heard of ACT
Read a littleACT
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Connect with your neighbourFIND OUT:
• (If you don’t know it) Your neighbours name• Something they like about their job• Something they like to do for fun
SHARE SOMETHING:
• What is your biggest monster?• What is behind the door?
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What is a long-term condition?
Long-term conditions (LTCs) or chronic diseases are conditions for which there is
currently no cure, and which are managed with drugs and other
treatment.
for example: diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD),
arthritis, hypertension.
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16.5 million people in England suffer with a LTC
58% aged over 60 years
14% under 40 years old
60% poorest communities
30% richest socio-economic group
Prevalence of Long-Term Conditions (LTCs)
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Have the greatest healthcare needs
50% all GP appointments
64% of all o/p appointments
Over 70% of all inpatient bed staysTreatment costs are £7 out of every £10 spent
Prevalence of Long-Term Conditions (LTCs)
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Why IAPT / Primary Care?
Around 40% of people with depression andanxiety also have an LTC. Around 30% of people with an LTC and 70% with MUS also have mental health comorbidities.
Prevalence of Long-Term Conditions (LTCs)
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Why Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) ?
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Experience of living with a LTC
“I can’t do this” “I am not ok with this” “people don’t understand” THESE THOUGHTS ARE OFTEN TRUE
Not everyone with a LTC is anxious or depressed. So, as a Practitioner,what are you doing?
Working with loss / adjustment:o Mobility, energy, fitness, strength, pain-free experience,
independence, freedom Painful emotional experience: sadness, hurt, embarrassment, shame,
anger, frustration Drift into rumination about the past and worry about the future Withdraw and isolate, sit and be inactive Push self, act as before and suffer the effects
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Dual process model of grief: Stroebe & Schut (e.g. 1999)
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Evidence-base of ACT
249 RCTs supporting the effectiveness of ACT since 1999 (July, 2018)
work stress; pain; smoking; anxiety; depression; diabetes management; substance use; stigma toward substance users in recovery; adjustment to cancer; epilepsy; coping with psychosis; borderline personality disorder; trichotillomania; obsessive-compulsive disorder; generalized anxiety disorder; marijuana dependence; skin picking; racial prejudice; returning from war; prejudice toward people with mental health problems; whiplash associated disorders; chronic pediatric pain; weight-maintenance and self-stigma; exercise; chess playing; tinnitus; eating disorders; clinicians’ adoption of evidence-based pharmacotherapy; training clinicians in psychotherapy methods other than ACT.
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249 RCTs supporting the effectiveness of ACT since 1999
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10,000+ ACT RCT
participants
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CBT
BECKIAN-style Cognitive
Therapy / CBT
Exposure, BehaviouralActivation
Combined Treatments
e.g. Barlow’s Unified Protocol
More cognitive More behaviouralACT in Context
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Radical BehaviourismOperant Conditioning (modify behaviour through Positive & Negative Reinforcement)Patterns of Behaviour are shaped by consequences…the consequences make the behavior more or less likely to be repeated
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Behaviours can only be fully understood when you observe the context
ConsequencesBehaviourAntecedent
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What are the possible antecedents to these behaviours?
1. Running up the stairs
2. Shouting at a child
3. Rumination
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All behaviour has a purpose…we merely need to be curious enough to find out what it is…
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Despite lots of unwanted consequences, why do we continue to do what is bad for us?
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We don’t just live in the real world, we also live in a verbal one
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Powerful environmental influencers interact with our verbal world and the urge for convenience and short-term relief
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Evolutionary ScienceThe development of human language
Co-operation & Problem-Solving
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The Quicksand Metaphor
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Happiness is not the natural normality
Suffering is normal and ubiquitous
Suffering is not a disease
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Contextual Behavioural Science
www.contextualscience.org
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CBS
Functional Contextualism(Philosophy)
ACT & FAP (Interventions)
Relational Frame Theory(Lab-based research)
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PHILOSOPHY TRUTH CRITERION
ROOT METAPHOR
INTERVENTIONS
FUNCTIONAL CONTEXTUALISM
PRAGMATISM ACT-IN-CONTEXT ACT & FAP
MECHANISM CAUSATION OF THE PARTS
MACHINE Cognitive Therapy
Philosophy of Science and Applied Psychology
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The Stance of the ACT Practitioner
As human beings, none of us are broken or defective
We get stuck and the processes that get us stuck are a side-
effect of evolution and language
Pain is inevitable, suffering can mediated through changes in
behaviour…most notably, by increasing ‘psychological flexibility’
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The Stance of the ACT Practitioner
To model psychological flexibility first (live-the-model)
Treat thinking as a form of behaviour e.g. worry,
rumination, self-criticism, evaluation, judgement, self-pity,
self-loathing, praise, encouragement
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The Targets of ACT
Workability
Experiential Avoidance
Cognitive Fusion
Inflexible perspective-taking
Inability to make and keep the commitment to freely chosen life purposes
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From an Evolutionary Perspective
1. Increase Variability of behaviours2. Select behaviours that are more advantageous to you and
your tribe3. Retain these behaviours through regular practice4. Develop context sensitivity through mindful awareness
and tracking
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What is ACT?
“Uses Mindfulness and Acceptance skills and processes as well as commitment and behavior change processes to enhance psychological flexibility”
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What is ACT?
Live a life that rich, full and meaningful with…less struggle
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Creative Hopelessness
Exploring the ‘workability’ of patterns of behaviour
Interventions:
1. Push against the clipboard2. Five Questions
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Creative Hopelessness (Group Exercise)
1. What do your thoughts and feelings stop you from doing?
2. What thoughts, feelings and physical sensations show up when you get stuck?
3. What do you do with these thoughts and feelings?4. How much do these actions work to fix or get rid of
these thoughts and feelings?5. In what ways do these actions cost you?
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Cognitive Defusion
Fusion is getting stuck to / entangled with thoughts
The problem is…when you get fused with unhelpful thoughts, they can exert too much control over your actions
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Cognitive Defusion
Defusion teaches you to use observer perspective so you can look at thoughts rather than from them
You practice being non-reactive
You disengage from unhelpful thoughts i.e. the ones that cause negative effects and stop you from choosing behaviours that are vital
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Cognitive Defusion
You undermine thoughts and reasons as causes for behaviour
Reinforce attention to direct experience and distinguish it from rigid-rule-following
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Cognitive Defusion
Possible to fuse with unhelpful thoughts about:
• Past and Future i.e. rumination and worry• The ‘Self’ e.g. I am weak, not good enough,
amazing, strong• Self-Governing Rules e.g. I must hide how I feel, I
need to feel more confident / in less pain / better / more comfortable before I can do x…
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Cognitive Defusion
Exercises:
Hands as thoughts Labelling thoughts Cartoon Voice Leaves on a stream Taking mind for a walk
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Why do Defusion?
Not to get rid of unwanted thoughts or feelings (although defusion takes some of the power out)
Defusion is a tool to help a person take action on what matters
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Values Clarification
Doing consistently what you care about is tricky…here is a video describing the challenge:
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Values Clarification
Establishing TOWARDS MOVES
QU. How do you want to be in your life?- as a partner, friend, parent, child, neighbour- for your self with health, spirituality, leisure- work, education, personal development- community, environment
Exploring ways of being…verbs and adverbs
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Choice Point
1. Identify the thoughts and feelings that occur in recent situation2. Identify the behaviours that occur when you get hooked3. Identify what you do when you don’t get hooked4. List the functions of these behaviours
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Values Clarification
• Directions, not destinations• Points on a compass• Not the same as goals or domains of life• Can be acted on now…no waiting required• Finding your WHY
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Values Clarification
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Values Clarification
How to find your why:
• Values Questionnaire• Values Cards• Five Memories Exercise
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Committed Action
• Taking the step forwards with your feet • An action, not an intention• Small steps done everyday (retention)• Flexible to choose and track the consequences
(context sensitivity)• Take your pain with you (variability)
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Committed Action
• Daily Intentions Diary (write them down)• Celebrate your actions (praise effort not outcome)• Notice and Identify the multiple benefits (reinforces
repetition)• Apply Exposure (therapist-aided)• Education about your condition; asking better questions
Not easy…so use further tools to help you
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Present Moment Contact
Easy to be lost in worry about future e.g. becoming more unwell / more quickly,
experiencing more pain / damage
Dwell on the paste.g. what has been lost, ‘who’ you once were (identity / roles)
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Present Moment Contact
Domination of past / future attention narrows behavioural repertoire…
seek safetyisolate selfwithdrawwait to be ‘ok’ again
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Present Moment Contact
Interventions:
• Metaphors – Torch in a dark room• Mindful awareness exercises• Experience through senses• Prompting client to notice in-session activity
e.g. what is your mind telling you right now?
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Present Moment Contact
Interventions:
• Prompting client to focus in the single most difficult part of the story
• Guide clients to slow down and shift attention• Dropping Anchor on ‘emotional storms’
e.g. safe place imagery, diaphragmatic breathing, meditation
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Self As Context / Observer Self
An alternative-way of relating to the ‘self’
Handles over-identification with unhelpful narratives
We tend to ‘act’ in accordance with / coherent to our self-stories, which can be problematic
‘You’ are not what your mind tells you / You are not the story
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Self As Context / Observer Self
Interventions:
1. Metaphor – Sky & The Weather / Chess Board2. Noticing the ‘You’ who is noticing x3. BIG I / Little i4. Shifting between spatial, temporal and deictic
perspectives (I-here-now)5. Add Self-Compassion to observer perspective
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Acceptance / Willingness
Pain is not the problem…it’s the unwillingness to have it that is the problem
The problem is not the problem. It’s the solutions that are the problem
If you don’t want…you got it
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Acceptance / Willingness
Interventions: Experiencing the difference of willingness
1. Metaphor - Walking in the rain2. Describing Experience (name emotions and park
evaluations of why…) & give it time and space to be3. Physicalising / Acceptance of Emotions4. Metaphor - Unwanted Party Guest
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Acceptance / Willingness
Key Points:
Not what we conventionally think of as acceptance i.e. resigning self to, putting-up with, grinning and bearing it, giving in to
It is a choice to be courageous, open to vulnerability
Holding more lightly, the unwanted feelings & pain
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Acceptance / Willingness
Tricky Points:
“I don’t want to accept it” – return to creative hopelessness
“Does acceptance mean I need to accept I’ll never get better?”• practice being open to the emotion, describe it.• be open to the experience• be kind to the ‘you’ who is suffering
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Questions?
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Further Reading
Harris, R (2009) ACT Made Simple
Owen, R (2011) Facing the Storm & (2013) Living with the Enemy
Oliver, Hill & Morris (2015) ACTivate your Life
Harris & Aisbett (2014) The Ilustrated Happiness Trap
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Downloads
www.openforwards.com/actintroltc