Brief Acceptance

Welcome to Brief Acceptance!

You have arrived at the online home for all things related to Brief Acceptance Therapies. We share the latest news and developments within the world of Acceptance. We will also discuss various techniques and theories, whether intended for self-help or to aid therapists and coaches. To find out more about what we mean by Brief Acceptance, you may want to check out the Frequently Asked Questions.

How can we Help?

Research & Resources

Book reviews, studies and evaluations, session guidelines, self-help suggestions, practice tips... it's all here!

Training

We offer training in all aspects of Acceptance, Solution-focused hypnosis and brief therapy. We also run corporate training events for Teachers, Therapists, Social Workers and other interested parties.

Therapy / Coaching

Use our site to connect with Brief Acceptance Therapists near you. You can learn about the various issues we work with and the therapy tools used to help and empower you.

Latest Posts!

Keep up to date with our latest posts. These will include news items, blog posts, book reviews and links to resources elsewhere on the web.

At the bottom of each post, you'll find a link to some related posts on a similar theme. In the right-hand column you will also see a tag-cloud, which is useful if you want to dive right in.

Alternatively, feel free to look through our categories and limit your browsing to the topic you're most interested in.

Using Meditation for Chronic Pain Relief

General

“Although we haven’t conducted any scientific research into this ourselves, there is increasing evidence to support meditation for the relief of pain. For us, the testimonials and comments on the pain management meditation speak for themselves.”

Three Blocks to Radical Acceptance

General

Radical Acceptance means completely and totally accepting something from the depths of your soul, with your heart and your mind. You stop fighting reality. When you stop fighting you suffer less. However, Radical acceptance is easier to understand than it is to practice.

Will I Ever be Happy Again?

General

This makes a very simple, yet extremely significant, point. Will I Ever Be Happy? Stop Waiting For The Perfect Moment It is pretty hard to feel content in a world that is consistently offering you the “next best thing”. I mean, how can your possibly pay attention to the now…

Acceptance and commitment therapy in the treatment of chronic pain

Research

JoAnne Dahl and Tobias Lundgren discuss the use of ACT for the treatment of chronic pain. They start off with a fascinating observation: A radical and provocative conclusion drawn by the authors of a Swedish government evaluation (van Tulder, et al., 2000) of all established medical treatments offered today was…

Acceptance is NOT Resignation!

General

This is excellent on Acceptance versus resignation: What does it mean when a friend, family member, or therapist tells you that you need to try to accept a situation you’re struggling with? Is this reasonable advice, or is it just annoying and impossible? Acceptance is a key concept and a…

EFT for the treatment of trauma in Veterans

News, Research

Our inclusion of EFT as a Brief Acceptance therapy is not accepted by everyone. Understandably, many adherents of EFT describe it as a technique that works due to tapping on Meridians. We disagree. Our position is that the reason that EFT works is primarily because it is a kinaesthetic process…

Can ACT help you quit smoking?

News, Research

A friend of mine recently gave-up smoking and is currently going on two weeks without a puff. He has received advice to employ some distraction techniques to help him deal with the ‘cravings’. I have two issues with this. Firstly, after two weeks, it is not strictly speaking cravings that…

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Unified Model of Behavior Change

Research

Just came across a paper from Steven C. Hayes, Jacqueline Pistorello and Michael E. Levin on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Unified Model of Behavior Change. Here’s the abstract: The present article summarizes the assumptions, model, techniques, evidence, and diversity/social justice commitments of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT…

Rediscover Your Personal Wisdom & Happiness

Self-help Tips

Here is a great post regarding the Option Method: In varying degrees, we feel that we need something more than what we already possess spiritually or materialistically before we can be really happy. Some of us get closer to it than others. Often a life threatening illness or the profound…

Welcome to the world of Acceptance!

News

Welcome to Brief Acceptance! This is very early days for our site, so we are still adding content, rearranging the furniture and squashing bugs. Over time, we will be drawing together all of the most useful ideas, theories and techniques from the various Brief Acceptance Therapies that are out there….

There will be more!

We have only just launched Brief Acceptance, so bear with us whilst we get it set-up and filled with useful content.

We will be adding book reviews, academic articles, practical tips and self-help techniques on a regular basis. We aim to satisfy both therapists/coaches and those who are interested in Acceptance from a personal development angle. But it may take us some time to get the right balance!

Therapy is Changing!