Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Empirically supported treatments, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD series: adults
In the past some academicians and clinicians discussed the difference among “health anxiety, somatic obsessions, or hypochondriasis” while others have looked at their commonalities (e.g. Taylor & Asmundson, 2004). Clinically speaking, all these terms...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Procrastination refers to intentionally, volitionally delaying or putting off tasks, activities, projects despite their importance and negative consequences in your day-to-day life. These tasks could be related to work, school performance, daily living (laundry,...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure, Values
Over the last couple of months I wrote different posts about exposure and its current clinical applications: Exposure: What is it and why is it important?, (b) Values-based exposure: what is it? Why to do it?, Social phobia/anxiety and values-based exposure). Today, I...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure
My previous post was about exposure: what is it and why is it important. I’m certain that if you search about exposure on google you will find a significant amount of academic and non-academic information on the different types of exposure, how to do it, when...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure
Approximately twenty years ago, Edna Foa, Ph.D. started delivering exposure-based interventions for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in particular. Dr. Foa’s pioneer clinical work has not only tremendously...
