ACT Made Simple - Client Handouts and Worksheets

YOUR VALUES:What really matters to you, deep in your heart? What do you want to do with your time on this

planet? What sort of person do you want to be? What personal strengths or qualities do you want to develop?

1. Work/Education: includes workplace, career, education, skills development, etc.

2. Relationships: includes your partner, children, parents, relatives, friends, co-workers, and other social contacts.

3. Personal Growth/Health: may include religion, spirituality, creativity, life skills, meditation, yoga, nature; exercise, nutrition, and/or addressing health risk factors like smoking, alcohol, drugs or overeating etc

4. Leisure: how you play, relax, stimulate, or enjoy yourself; activities for rest, recreation, fun and creativity.

THE BULL'S EYE: make an X in each area of the dart board, to represent where you stand today.

I am living fully by my values

I am acting very inconsistently with

my values

Work/ Education

Leisure

Personal growth/ Health

Relationships

Adapted with permission from Tobias Lundgren's Bull's Eye ? Russ Harris 2009 reprinted by permission of New Harbinger:

Dissecting The Problem

This form is to help gather information about the nature of the main challenge, issue, or problem facing you. First, please summarize, in 1 or 2 sentences, what the main issue or problem is:

Second, please describe, in 1 or 2 sentences, how it affects your life, and what it stops you from doing or being:

Regardless of what your problem is ? whether it is a physical illness, a difficult relationship, a work situation, a financial crisis, a performance issue, the loss of a loved one, a severe injury, or a clinical disorder such as depression - when we dissect the problem, we usually find four major elements that contribute significantly to the issue. These are represented in the boxes below. Please write as much as you can in each box, about the thoughts, feelings and actions that contribute to or worsen the challenge, problem or issue facing you.

Entanglement With Thoughts What memories, worries, fears, self-criticisms, or other unhelpful thoughts do you dwell on, or get "caught up" in, related to this issue? What thoughts do you allow to hold you back or push you around or bring you down?

Life-draining Actions: What are you currently doing that makes your life worse in the long term: keeps you stuck; wastes your time or money; drains your energy; restricts your life, impacts negatively on your health, work or relationships; maintains or worsens the problems you are dealing with?

Struggle With Feelings What emotions, feelings, urges, impulses, or sensations (associated with this issue) do you fight with, avoid, suppress, try to get rid of, or otherwise struggle with?

Avoiding Challenging Situations: What situations, activities, people or places are you avoiding or staying away from? What have you quit, withdrawn from, dropped out of? What do you keep "putting off" until later?

? Russ Harris 2009 reprinted by permission of New Harbinger:

The Life Compass

In the main part of each large box, write a few key words about what is important or meaningful to you in this domain of life: What sort of person do you want to be? What sort of personal strengths and qualities do you want to cultivate? What you want to stand for? What do you want to do? How do you ideally want to behave? (If a box seems irrelevant to you, that's okay: just leave it blank. If you get stuck on a box, then skip it, and come back to it later. And it's okay if the same words appear in several or all boxes: this helps you identify core values that cut through many domains of life.) Once you've done that for all boxes, go through them and in the upper small square inside each box, mark on a scale of 0-10 how important these values are to you, at this point in your life: 0= no importance, 10= extremely important. (It's okay if several squares all have the same score.) Finally, in the lower small square inside each box, mark on a scale of 0-10 how effectively you are living by these values right now. 0= not at all 10= living by them fully (Again, it's okay if several squares all have the same score.) Finally have a good look at what you've written. What does this tell you about: a) What is important in your life? b) What you are currently neglecting?

Parenting

Personal Growth

Leisure

Spirituality

Health

Work

Community & Environment

Family Relationships

Intimate Relationships

Social Relationships

Adapted with permission by New Harbinger Publications, Inc. from Living Beyond Your Pain, J. Dahl & T. Lundgren,

The Problems and Values Worksheet

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy aims to reduce suffering and enrich life, as shown in the diagram below. To help in this process, there are four lots of information that are particularly important. These are represented in the four columns below. Between now and the next session, see what you can write in or add to each column.

STRUGGLE & SUFFERING

Problematic Thoughts

Problematic Actions:

And Feelings:

What are you doing that

What memories, worries,

makes your life worse in the

fears, self-criticisms, or

long run: that keeps you

other thoughts do you get

stuck; wastes your time or

"caught up" in? What

money; drains your energy;

emotions, feelings, urges, or impacts negatively on your

sensations do you struggle health or your relationships;

with?

or leads to you "missing out"

on life?

RICH & MEANINGFUL LIFE

Values: What matters to you Goals & Actions: What are

in the "big picture"? What you currently doing that

do you want to stand for?

improves your life in the

What personal qualities and long run? What do you want

strengths do you want to

to start or do more of? What

develop? How do you want life-enriching goals do you

to enrich or improve your

want to achieve? What life-

relationships? How would enhancing actions do you

you like to "grow" or

want to take? What life-

develop, through addressing improving skills would you

your issue(s) or problem(s)? like to develop?

? Russ Harris 2009 reprinted by permission of New Harbinger:

VITALITY VS. SUFFERING DIARY

Between now and next session, keep a record of what you do when painful thoughts and

feelings arise, and notice if these actions lead to increased vitality or increased suffering

Painful Thoughts/ Feelings/ Urges/ Things I did - when those thoughts Things I did - when those thoughts

Sensations/ Memories

and feelings showed up - that lead and feelings showed up - that lead

that showed up today

to VITALITY (i.e. enriched my to SUFFERING (i.e. restricted or

life, or improved my health,

worsened my life, drained my

wellbeing, or relationships in the health and wellbeing, or hurt my

long term)

relationships in the long term)

? Russ Harris 2009 reprinted by permission of New Harbinger:

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