![]() Others say it is perspective taking, pure awareness and some call it the transcendent sense of self.Īnd three, ACT tries to assess what language or self-descriptions a client is struggling with that leads to inflexibility and tries to reduce the attachment to the conceptualized self.As I am going through the process of preparing for the LMSW exam, I’ve come across two tools that you will find most helpful. Most of the time, it is called self-as-context but it is also called the observing self, the core you. Two, there are many names even in the ACT community for this process. It has no form or verbal content but it can be thought as the place from which observations are made. One, self-as-context is the locus from which a person’s experience unfolds. In the next video, we will go through a self-as-context exercise called the observing self.īut before we wrap up, there are three important points from this video. The core self, the observing you is a point of view from which all content such as emotions and thoughts can simply be observed and accepted. It is an unformed place where things can just be. We’ll strive to reduce the attachment to the language concepts that describe a concretized self and see if we can experiment with simply looking at the self-as-context.Īnd the context is not a thing. That can have a deleterious impact on a life well lived.ĪCT aims to help the client use perspective taking to develop a flexible view of the self. When people really buy their own self-descriptions, their behavior may become beholden to that language and influenced to restrict their own psychological flexibility. Self-as-context work helps loosen up attachment to the conceptualized self.īeing attached to the conceptualized self is the other side of the spectrum from self-as-context. When people use language to describe the self in these and many other ways, the ACT therapist will look for these attachments to the conceptualized self to see if it can be loosened. The person articulating I’m depressed may continue because of this conceptualized self to keep acting depressed. The person who is too nervous may never earn what they are worth in their career and be miserable at their job because they link the self to too nervous and too nervous restricts them from actually asking for a raise. The person saying I’m a bad person may then give themselves permission to engage in sociopathic behavior. And you can already see how this will lead to behavioral rigidity, how it will influence psychological inflexibility. ![]() And if you listen to what people say, they describe the self with certain concepts like bad person, too nervous, depressed. Or another person might say, I’m depressed. Other people say, I’m too nervous of a person to actually ask for a raise from my boss. In ACT since we’re aiming to increase psychological flexibility, it would be helpful to assess what the client is struggling with that leads to inflexibility. ![]() ![]() Instead, it can be thought of as the place from which observations are made.Īgain, it is the place or the perspective from which people are able to observe and accept all changing experiences. Self-as-context is transcendent in that it has no form or verbal content. Instead, it is the locus from which a person’s experience unfolds. Self-as-context is not an object of verbal evaluations. ![]() Language has a hard time defining self-as-context because it really is something that one experiences. Some therapists call it the transcendent sense of self. Others say it is perspective taking or pure awareness. There are lots of synonyms for self-as-context because different people are trying to define what it is. Self-as-context is difficult to nail down verbally. The ACT hexagon model shows six essential components to the therapeutic approach and this video will highlight the self-as-context. ![]()
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