PSYC 3083 Chapter : Mindfulness
Document Summary
Highlights: origins in cognitive behavior therapy, rooted in christian contemplation and zen buddahist. Acceptance and commitment therapy: steven hayes, created zen ways of overcoming anxiety. In act combination of 4 processes: acceptance, defusion, contact with present moment, noticing self. Health and dysfunction: health rather than disease model of psychological dysfunction, cognitive fusion can"t separate self from cognitions and believe they are true, healthy: defused, flexibility, dysfunction: likely fused with their thoughts , take them as truth. Constructs: dialectics, holistic perpective: context is critical, reality is fluid, composed of opposing forces, the synthesis of which creates new set of opposing forces, helping client change vervises elping with self acceptance. Health and dusfunction: healthy people can refulate emptions, dusfunction: due to emotional vulnerability and invalidating rearing environment, reciprocal influence, emotional dysregulation, inability to adaptively process and respond on the bias of emotion.
