Useful ACT Reframes
ACT as a Brief InterventionThe ACT model is full of reframing. What follows are a few of the most useful ACT Reframes. The first reframe we're gonna cover is workability because this actually underpins the whole ACTmodel. ACT is really based on this concept. Workability explores the question. You know, what's working in the short term to help you meet your needs or feel better or escape your pain?
Is it working in the long term to help you be the person you want to be, do the things you want to do, build the best possible life that you can? Another useful reframe is the concept of getting hooked you know, getting hooked is the problem. Clients typically come along with the idea that their thoughts and feelings are the problem. And we reframe it as actually, you know, it's the way you respond to your thoughts and feelings that's the problem.
It's the fusion and the avoidance that's the problem. And the very simple way of saying that is, you know, getting hooked. That's the problem when you get hooked by these things, and then the reframe is kinda learning how to unhook from them. Building on the idea of getting hooked, another useful reframe is that when you get hooked, it's a problem. Because it pulls you away from your values. You know, when this stuff jerks you around, pulls you around, it stops you from behaving like the person you want to be and doing the things you want to do.