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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"defusion"”.
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Cognitive Defusion and Psychological Flexibility With Self-Relevant Academic Distress Stimuli
… and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is cognitive defusion. Rapid word repetition is one of the exercises used in ACT to promote defusion. Previous research has examined the effect of this exercise with the general population, using words representing negative self-referential thoughts. Studies …
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Cognitive and Emotional Defusion: Investigations of the Underlying Psychological Processes using Explicit and Implicit Measures
… analyses of the emotional impact of cognitive defusion techniques on positive and negative thoughts about the self. Part I of the thesis investigated the impact of defusion on explicit self-report measures. Experiment 1 examined the emotional impact of a brief defusion technique on positive and …
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Investigating the Impact of a Brief Cognitive Defusion Intervention on State Anxiety and Psychological Inflexibility/Avoidance
… body research supports the efficacy of cognitive defusion (a behavioural technique derived from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), as a treatment for anxiety related behaviour (Hayes et al., 2006). Despite the positive outcomes reported for defusion-based interventions, a functional account of …
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Examining the use of Cognitive Defusion Exercises to Treat High-Order Repetitive and Restrictive Behaviors Displayed by Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… participants to assess the effects of cognitive defusion exercise in the form of word repetition and exposure on problem behavior associated with repetitive and restrictive behaviors observed with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. All 3 participants demonstrated a decrease in the …
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Fusion With Self-Referential Labels: Examining A Behavioral Measure
… behavior. In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, defusion exercises are designed to de-emphasize the literal interpretation of thoughts (such as self-labels) so that behavior is less controlled by verbal rules and more sensitive to direct interaction with the environment. Although existing …
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An Evaluation of Multiple Exemplar Instruction to Teach Perspective-Taking Skills to Young Adults with Autism: Deictic Framing and Cognitive Defusion
… design to examine the use of MEI to facilitate defusion from negative thoughts and feelings related to social interaction. Participants were trained to discriminate between different aspects of their own perspective (i.e., self-as-content and self-as-context). Defusion was measured using ratings …
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Piloting the Use of Acceptance, Cognitive Defusion, and Values, in Reducing Experiential Avoidance and its Consequences Among Youth Rejected by Peers
… selected ACT components (acceptance, cognitive defusion, and values) were presented in age-appropriate form to six participants over five individual intervention sessions. The program was successful in reducing EA and cognitive fusion and/or improving mindfulness and acceptance for most …
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The Immortality Phantasy: an extension of the instinctual model of creativity and its application to classic literary texts
… with the Oedipal parent, we can see a defusion of instinct occur, which allows for the concurrent release of creative and destructive energies. The ego is left unprotected against the death instinct, resulting in guilt and punishment for Oedipal phantasies. However, through creativity …
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Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes with Information-Processing Theory in Anxious Early Adolescents
… increase mindfulness, acceptance, and cognitive defusion, and to decrease experiential avoidance. The mechanisms explaining the effectiveness of ACT processes suggest that they counteract automatic biased responses (which are characteristic of anxious children) during I-P stages. Specifically, …
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EFFICACY OF ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT TRAINING (ACT) IN A TELE-HEALTH FORMAT TO TREAT INDIVIDUALS WITH AN EATING DISORDER
… psychological flexibility, and cognitive defusion.</p>
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An examination of the psychometrics of the cognitive fusion questionnaire and its relationship to other constructs
… difficulties. ACT’s novel approach to language, defusion (the opposite of fusion), can help improve mental health by changing one’s relationship with their thoughts. Efforts to better understand this mechanism of ACT has been hampered by the absence of a robust fusion measure until recently, with …
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ACADEMIC OUTCOMES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT: THE ROLE OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS, SELF-COMPASSION, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY
… PTSS, unlike other components, such as cognitive defusion, acceptance, committed action, as well as self-compassion. The small overall effect size suggests other factors may influence the relationship between sexual assault, PTSS, and academic interference. Findings from this study hold …
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The impact of ACT interventions on psychological flexibility and minority stress within sexual minority groups - a mixed-methods evaluation
… support tailored ACT interventions like “defusion” and “dropping anchor” exercises, delivered in affirming groups. The findings support brief ACT interventions being integrated into clinical practice for sexual minorities experiencing MS.
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An Empirical Investigation of Self: Bridging the Gap between ACT, Mindfulness and RFT
… ACT interventions that targeted acceptance, defusion, values and contact with the present moment successfully ameliorate experimentally induced distress in a non-clinical sample of undergraduates. We also investigated whether each of these individual ACT components would be enhanced by a self …