What is Creative Hopelessness in ACT?
Channel: APTinACT
Date: 2020-05-08

Creative Hopelessness is a concept used to engage clients in therapy in a way that changes the functions of their coping strategies.  Naturally, many people enter therapy wanting to better control their problems, but excessive emotional control and avoidance often keep them stuck and worsens their distress.

Therapists who want to learn Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will have heard about creative hopelessness but may be uncertain about it.

In this episode of APT in ACT, Jim Lucas describes the process of Creative Hopelessness and talks about how and when you can use it in therapy.

Rooted in functional contextualism, creative hopelessness is a tool for exploring the functions of behaviour inside a specific context.  

Discover why it is important and learn the five questions you can ask your client to begin this work.

Would you like to learn more about how you teach acceptance?  https://youtu.be/l4twnrfnx8s 

Would you like to practice your Acceptance and Commitment Therapy skills in a supervision group?  Click the link for more information:  https://www.openforwards.com/actpracticegroups/