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Is ACT an existential therapy? ACT AND EXISTENTIAL THERAPY RFT EXISTENTIAL- PHENOMENOLOGICAL RADICAL BEHAVIOURISM PHILOSOPHY Is ACT an existential therapy? ACT AND EXISTENTIAL THERAPY RFT EXISTENTIAL- PHENOMENOLOGICAL RADICAL


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RADICAL BEHAVIOURISM RFT EXISTENTIAL- PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY ACT AND EXISTENTIAL THERAPY

Is ACT an existential therapy?

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RADICAL BEHAVIOURISM RFT EXISTENTIAL- PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY ACT AND EXISTENTIAL THERAPY

Is ACT an existential therapy?

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Is ACT an Existential Therapy?

What similarities? How? Why? Now what?

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A shared stance

  • Non-pathologising
  • Acceptance
  • Non-hierarchical
  • Freedom and choice
  • Meaning and values
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HEIDEGGER

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Thought Emotion Behaviour

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Existential Therapy? Or ACT?

  • ‘Aim of therapeutic work = helping clients to

become more aware of their actual existence, and to live more in accordance with their true values

  • Therapists work with the concrete actuality of

clients’ experiences

  • Clients are encouraged to acknowledge, and

act on, their freedom and responsibility’

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Existential Therapy? Or ACT?

  • ‘Clients are encouraged to acknowledge,

accept and learn from the more ‘negative’ feelings

  • All aspects of clients’ being are seen as

fundamentally interconnected

  • Therapists are genuine and direct
  • Practice is flexible and adaptable’
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RADICAL BEHAVIOURISM RFT EXISTENTIAL- PHENOMENOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY ACT AND EXISTENTIAL THERAPY

ACT: An Existential Therapy

SHARED STANCE SHARED PROCESSES SHARED METAPHORS

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Christine Ramsey-Wade Christine.ramsey-wade@uwe.ac.uk