Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today, in our final program we are going to continue to talk about prosocial behavior. Remember that Prosocial behaviors are those intended to help other people. Prosocial behavior is characterized by a concern about the rights, feelings and welfare of other people. Behaviors that can be described as prosocial include feeling empathy and concern for others and behaving in ways to help or benefit other people. One of the 6 key processes in ACT is valuing. We ha...
Apr 28, 2014•33 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today Iwould like to take up the concept of prosocial behavior. What it is, how is can be trained and what kind of effects it has for us as individuals and as a group, as a nation and on our earth. Prosocial behavior is defined as voluntary behavior intended to benefit another. A social behavior that benefits other people or as a society as a whole. such as helping, sharing donating co-operating and volunteering.These efforts may be motivated by empathy and by...
Apr 21, 2014•27 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to talk about the challenging side of caring for others who are at times acting out and acting aggressively towards the caregiver. Several recent studies have shown that caring for others provides resilience to the damaging effects of stress on the heart, for example. But there is also a dark side. This actually has a name Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Caregiver syndrome or caregiver stress is a condi...
Apr 14, 2014•31 min
According to an article in the British Medical Bulletin, When people migrate from one nation or culture to another they carry their knowledge and expressions of distress with them. On settling down in the new culture, their cultural identity is likely to change and that encourages a degree of belonging; they also attempt to settle down by either assimilation or biculturalism Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Migration is a process of social change where an in...
Apr 07, 2014•32 min
Who you think you are might be more important than you think. Usually we use the term self in general to refer to how you think about or perceive yourself. To be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself. How you define yourself, your beliefs, your values, your limits and so on predicts your behavior. The problem with this is that we all have the tendency to stereotype ourselves and others which naturally restricts and limits us. It is therefore very important that we listen carefully to ...
Mar 31, 2014•33 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to continue our series on ACT and Health issues and talk about cancer. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Breast cancer. Breast cancer is a type of cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts. Worldwide, breast cancer accounts for 22.9% of all cancers. Prognosis and survival rates for breast cancer vary greatly depending on the cancer type, stage, treatment, and...
Mar 24, 2014•29 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are continuing on the theme of what happens when you find yourself in a values conflict. When the context around you, whether it is a working place, a relationship, a society or spiritual community places rules on your behavior that don’t coincide with your own values. Recently we had a program with the form catholic priest Maurice Monette discussing his struggle with his own sexual orientation and the policy of the Roman Catholic church that led to h...
Mar 17, 2014•29 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today you are going to have the chance to hear about a new ACT book that has just been released called * the Diet Trap .’ This is a self help book for people who are struggling with overweight using the ACT model. It is authored by Jason Lillis, myself and Sandra Weinerland. Jason is the first author and my guest on today’s program. I know that there are masses of books about dieting out there and I hope to give you some insight into this particular book which...
Mar 10, 2014•28 min
Struggling with your own avoidance when trying to help others Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Many of us work with people. Many of us try and help people to develop and grow in different ways. You may be helping children learn difficult things in school or helping patients to learn how to cope with an illness. You may be a parent trying to help you own children to deal with the challenges of life. When we help others, we are often trying to get them to appr...
Mar 03, 2014•28 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope.Today we are going to discuss about the difficulties involved in parenting. We see on TV and in popular media, often program for ‘so called’ Out of control children. This has resulted in all kinds of treatments for children with the aim of controlling their behavior. Probably children are pretty much the same as they have always been but the context arounds us as parents has changed. Rather than focusing on the undesirable behavior of your child you might want ...
Feb 24, 2014•31 min
There are many good reasons to work on and keep vital your intimate relationship. Divorces effect our health negatively. Divorce can take a great mental and physical toll on men. Specifically, divorced and unmarried men have higher rates of mortality and are more prone to substance abuse and depression than married men. Breaking up in general increases stress, weakens the immune system, increases depression and anxiety for everyone. According to the American Psychological Association, children a...
Feb 17, 2014•28 min
. Our guest Dr Jen Gregg is an associate professor at San Jose State University in San Francisco and her website is www.sjsu.edu/people/jennifer.gregg . In this program Jen speaks to us about how she works with ACT to help people get flexible around fears and rigid thoughts about having the diagnosis of diabetes in order to get space to take care of themselves and live vital lives. Jen also works with people who know they have a short time left to live. She tells us how much we can learn about l...
Feb 10, 2014•29 min
What happens when rules imposed upon you conflict with your own values? Rules always come from the outside, your parents, your school, the ‘gang’ that you hang around in, your workplace or your church. What happens the day you feel that these rules don’t coincide with your own values? This type of conflict causes physical and psychological uneasiness like anxiety, sleep disturbances just to name a few. Today’s program is about how one man dealt with this. Subscribe with your favorite podcast pla...
Feb 03, 2014•33 min
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways. Asthma causes recurring periods of wheezing , chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. The coughing often occurs at night or early in the morning. Asthma affects people of all ages, but it most often starts during childhood. In the United States, more than 25 million people are known to have asthma. About 7 million of these people are children. Here in Sweden, one out of every three children has allergies and that...
Jan 20, 2014•29 min
Having a baby and learning to be a parent is certainly one of life’s greatest challenges. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS About 1 in 4 women experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy or postnatally (most commonly depression or anxiety). But this doesn’t really give us an indication of women who are struggling who don’t meet ‘cut off’ criteria for depression or anxiety or whose experiences are painful but don’t match criteria on surveys given....
Jan 13, 2014•35 min
Change as the mantra for modern life, craving positive changes on all levels from individuals seeking to improve themselves to neighborhoods seeking a greater sense of community to nations attempting to function in better ways. How can evolution science help as an agent of change in general? What happens when change is left unmanaged, left to evolution? what are the problems? Left unmanaged evolutionary processes take us where we prefer not to go. Today’s guest will be discussing these questions...
Jan 06, 2014•42 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are going to have an enlightening conversation about the three pounds of soft gooshy tissue we all carry between our ears. Our brains. Our brains are the most complex object know in the universe. Understanding some basic characteristics about how our brains work can be of great help to us in developing our own wellbeing. Today you will get the chance to listen to an expert. Dr Rick Hanson. Rick is a neuropsychologist who writes and teaches about the e...
Dec 30, 2013•32 min
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional disorder of the gut. (The gut includes the bowels.) A functional disorder means there is a problem with the function of a part of the body, but there is no abnormality in the structure. So, in IBS, the function of the gut is upset, but all parts of the gut look normal, even when looked at under a microscope. IBS causes various symptoms . Up to 1 in 5 people in thedevelops IBS at some stage in their life. IBS can affect anyone at any age, but ...
Dec 23, 2013•27 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Today we are continuing our series of ACT and Health Issues. A topic close to my heart is how ACT can approach the growing population of women over 50 and those special health issues. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS In the next decade, more women than ever before will be age 50 or older. Women face unique health issues beginning at age 50 and throughout the rest of their lives. Heart disease, osteoporosis, breast cancer a...
Dec 16, 2013•35 min
The rates of obesity in America’s children and youth have tripled in the last quarter century. Approximately 20 percent of our youth are now overweight with obesity rates in preschool age children increasing at alarming speed.. Low-income minority children have a greater risk of being overweight or obese, eating fewer fruits and vegetables and engaging less in physically active lifestyles. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS The causes of obesity are complex:Un...
Dec 09, 2013•38 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS 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 to MLK Jr’s dream that we will all live together as brothers and sisters in this world? Today you are going to get the chance to talk to an ex...
Dec 01, 2013•35 min
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 yourself. It is the opposite of being harsh with or even punishing yourself. Today you are going to get a chance to talk to an expert on self compassion and how to develop it. Dr Paul Gil...
Nov 25, 2013•36 min
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. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS 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, stigma based on physical appearance, homophobia. St...
Nov 18, 2013•31 min
Welcome to ACT taking hurt to hope Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS 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 is telling you about this reality and third taking steps in your valued directions in this reality you find yourself in. Today we ar...
Nov 11, 2013•30 min
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 in the USA. He provides training in ACT for audiences around the world, is the author of a book for professionals called Learning Acceptance and Commitment Th...
Nov 04, 2013•38 min
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 for working with adolescents. In this program Louise explains how she came up with this idea and she also will show in a role play how she uses them. This is an application...
Oct 28, 2013•33 min
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 and sent thru the post office. All this has shaped our behavior to expect quick relief from feelings we don’t like, and quick results of what we do want. Criminal behavior is another way of taking short...
Oct 21, 2013•32 min
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. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Lance is a Professor of Behavioural Medicine and Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Psychology Lead, INPUT Pain Management Service, Guy’s and ...
Oct 14, 2013•37 min
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 word called ‘defusion’ meaning to become aware that you have thoughts but are not your thoughts so de fusing yourself from your thoughts, Committed action or persistenc...
Oct 07, 2013•34 min
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 following massicre at young people’s camp out side Oslo by a single individual.Since the Oklahoma city bombing, a greater port of terrorist attacks have been carried out by individu...
Sep 09, 2013•37 min
