Mindfulness-based therapy – Flashcards

1. behavior therapy to change associations (= systematic desensitizaion, aversive conditioning, reinformecemn) 2. addition of cognitive therapy to change internal mediators (i.e. congition) through though records 3. not chaning the content but the relation to the content (= mindfulness, cognitive defusion)

mental disorders as dyscontrol: an involuntary, organismic impairment in psychological functioning --> dual processing model: relfective vs. impulsive

paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally

Acceptance involves: - a conscious decision to abandon one's agenda to have a different experience - allowing whatever one's experience is to just be ("stopping the war") Decentering involves: - mental content experienced as not as reflecting a reality about the world or self, but as "passing thoughts and feelings that may or may not have some truth in them" - experiences that come an go

- main learning objectives: concentration, awareness of immediate experience, bein in the moment, acceptance and decenetering, letting go, "bein rather than doing"