...Present moment awareness (PMA) is one of six interrelated processes that facilitate psychological flexibility within acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The process of PMA (1) brings deliberate attention to inner experiences such as thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations in the service...

... the adolescent in adopting a practice of present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental awareness in different situations and across varying triggers of increasing intensity. This may in turn eventually reduce attempts to avoid uncomfortable emotional experiences. The adolescent will use awareness strategies during...

... about present-moment awareness and nonjudgmental awareness. These strategies may be used alone or may be combined with situational emotion exposures, introduced in the next chapter. At the end of the parent session, parents begin creating an Emotional Behavior Form in preparation for upcoming exposures...

...Oxford University Press Chapter 8 of the Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children: Workbook (UP-C) focuses on emotional awareness by teaching a new Emotion Detective skill to experience feelings while learning three present-moment awareness...

... behaviors. The chapter covers the steps for practicing present-moment awareness and how to use nonjudgmental awareness to notice and be more accepting of emotional experiences. The adolescent is taught how to apply present-moment and nonjudgmental awareness to emotional experiences. Once you get...

... introduces awareness of the somatic component of emotional experiences. Parents learn to perform a body scan—a present-moment awareness exercise—to help their children identify somatic components of emotions. Parents learn to identify times when their children may be expressing emotions as somatic complaints...

... or suppressing them. Parents learn about and practice present-moment awareness and non-judgmental awareness. In Session 9, parents learn about situational emotion exposures as a different type of science experiment, as well as their role in helping their child practice exposures at home. This session also covers...

... in this program, and therefore a practice plan is developed in this last chapter. emotions present-moment awareness nonjudgmental avoidance evaluate progress maintain progress treatment goals practice plan ■ To review the important takeaway message of this program ■ To evaluate your progress...