אדם לייטון - מחשבות על מחשבות (ורגשות, ותחושות...)

The new framework for therapy, Process-based therapy (PBT), as proposed by Hoffman & Hayes (2018) describes mental health pathology and healing through an evolutionary approach. Simply, healthy mental wellbeing includes a variety of different coping and behavioural responses (internal and external), and we adapt to changing conditions and context through a ‘natural selection’ process of changing our coping and behavioural responses and retaining those that allow us to live a meaningful life (adaptive response). Sometimes, we lose our flexibility and become ‘stuck in the rut’ with regards to certain behaviours, in certain contexts. For example, we may start to persistently respond with anger whenever we experience the emotion of frustration. PBT suggests that regardless of the therapeutic approach we choose, the path to improving wellbeing, in this case, is to learn to include additional behavioural responses, such as being willing to experience the frustration or learning to expre...