Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Anxiety, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Parent series: social anxiety
This post is part of a series on social anxiety: (1) social anxiety, shyness, and introversion and (2) what keeps social anxiety going? Although the content of this series is primarily for adults, it also applies to children and adolescents. A national survey...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The East Bay Behavior Therapy Center (EBBTC) is pleased to announce the following groups in Walnut Creek for January 2014: Anger: From furious to curious (adults) Is anger affecting your relationships? Anger is a natural response but it could become problematic at...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Empirically supported treatments
This is post is the last post on this series of “Anger Specialists: Why do I continue to be angry.” In the next paragraphs I’ll describe how anger affects interpersonal relationships and how aversive strategies destroy what people crave the most: intimate...
Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Interpersonal problems
Quite often in therapy, either my clients or their significant others ask me, why did I became angry? What happened? Why am I such an angry person? I decided to answer those questions in detail in a series of posts about anger that will specifically describe why a...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal problems
In my previous post, “Anger: Behavior account-ability and response-ability,” I described the components of problematic anger responses: high levels of physiological arousal, strong emotions, thinking traps, and aggressive behaviors. Particular emphasis was placed on...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Behavior change, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The beginning of a new year comes with new resolutions, new goals, and ultimately, the possibility of change. Over the last couple of years I worked with clients who most of the time were “ready to do something different” about their challenges. There were also times...
