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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Titel Struggling with Racism: Training prosocial behavior appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – How to develop Self Compassion appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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, […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with HIV/AIDS stigma appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Chronic illness appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Thoughts appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT processes: Values work with adolescents appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with ACT processes: Persistency and Commitment appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with ACT processes: Acceptance appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with ACT processes: Self as Context and Being here and Now appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Training Prosocial Behavior using the Matrix appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – The struggle of college students appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Contributing to a more compassionate world Steve Hayes appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT and Building Safety Commitment appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with family members with addiction appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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. […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT and internet treatment appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – ACT behind Bars appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with kids who hurt appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Shame Self Criticism and Self Compassion appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Struggling with Emotional Eating: Feeding [or starving] your Feelings appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

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 […] The post ACT: Taking Hurt to Hope – Using Behavior Activation for Depression appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.