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Hi all,
I very much hope that you enjoy the day. There are two options for covering the day. One is to view the past recording under the RECAP recordings of a prior presentation, and use a powerpoint presentation of slides only. An alternative preferred option is to follow the narrated PowerPoint presentation where I talk through the slides and direct you to examples. So please do choose what works best for you. Please nto the requests not to dowload or save recordings used to demonstrate clincial skills. I also hope tha the booklet which I created will be helpful for yuor practice. This will is currently going through the university design team for publication, so I will update ELE with any newer versions as they emerge. Please do try to link up with peers for the exercises, whether by phone, zoom, skype, face time, whatsapp or any other methods you chose. It is best to open this padlet in something other than outlook, as not all functions wok with that bowser (I like firefox for padlets). Have fun, stay well, and I hope to see you all soon. Best wishes and warm thoughts, Rob.

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They should then automatically post up in time order.

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Good morning everyone, hope you're all well!?!

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Hi,
Echo that, hoping all are well and take care of each other.
Rob

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Registration padlet at student request... Follow the link below

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https://padlet.com/r_j_kidney2/gk9oplyqht4l

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In the rare case their fear does come true...

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In the rare case their fear does come true...

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Afternoon Rob,

I'm sure this is rare, however upon completion of a BE - what would our next steps be should their prediction come true e.g. they do get laughed at for dropping money?

Just concerned this would perhaps lessen their faith in the intervention or 'solidify' their anxieties. Would this leave us between a rock and a hard place?

Thanks

Hi Beth,
This may of course happen sometimes, and we can never assure people that bad things do not happen, however, just because something happens once, will it happen at all times? There is also opportuntiy to learn in these situations, that even if the bad thing happens, can they cope with it? The answer is of course yes. And is coping with these things happening in line with their goals?
Think of the general anxiety equation here which is: liklihood x awfulness
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coping + rescue
Therefore if through the experiment we learn that events are not as awful as we predicted, then we reduce our anxiety.

Also, if out goals remain important, then we will still want to work towards them. Condsider the following analogy:
Do you have house insurance? (yes)
You picked your house insurance so presumably you are happy with this? (yes)
Great, just wondering....
Does your house insurance cover you for acts of God? (?)
Unfortunately, no house insurance covers you for acts of God. Whilst I think about it, does your house insurance cover you for acts of war? (?)
Unfortunately no house insurance covers you for acts of war.  Hmm, I'm beginning to think that your house insurance is not as good as we were hoping for :(
Don't worry though, I can sell yuo Rob's house insurace. This will cover you for acts of God, acts of war, in fact for anything and everything, new for old. Sound good? (yes)
Great, welcome to the plan, you're on board, full cover. Oh, I shoudl probably just mention. First premium is due, this month the cost is one million pounds.....
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Do you still want my house insurance?
Why not?
(It's too expensive)
So what your telling me, is that the cost of knowing nothing bad can ever happen is too high? How might this be like doing behavioural experiments? The cost of never doing experiments and nothing ever going wrong, is that you can never achieve your goals. We may also find out some things about other people, but does that mean anythign about you? The more we learn, the more opportunity we have to adapt and do thing differently. Sometimes we learn the most useful things, when things don't go according to plan. These are not reasons to avoid doing behavioural experiments!

Thanks Rob, That's a great analogy and also a great way to view these challenges! :)

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Hi Rob, I really liked your crocodiles/vampires and elepants metaphors. Have you just collected these along the way or do you have a source of such stories/analogies? They make things so interactive and memorable.
I have read a little about ACT and know this uses metaphors - do you have any tips for reading about this in  light way as we don't really have time to delve very deeply with all the other material we are getting our head round! Or will this just confuse the issue. I would really like a bank of useful stories/metaphors to use that accesses the CYP's creativity and imagination.
Any thoughts?
Kathy

Hi Kathy,
I have generally collected these over the last 25 years of working with clients! However the following book does exist for those who are keen and interested in this.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Metaphors-Building-Cognitive-Bridges-Behavioural/dp/0199207496/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=stories+and+metaphors+in+cbt&qid=1585145514&sr=8-1-fkmr1

Full text available remotely from the library, just search with the beginning of the title "oxford guide to metaphors" and it will come up
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/library/

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I'm  not sure if this will violate any consent or confidentiality/data protection, but in the future would it be possible for recordings like this to be transcribed? I know software exists that can automatically do this - I just found it really hard to understand the distorted voices!

Hi,
all things are posible with time. Though I remain grateful for the permission to include these with distortion to ensure confidentiality.

Thanks Rob,
It is great that we are able to listen to this, it really helps to solidfy knowledge and understand how to put it into practice when the time comes - I'm sure we're all grateful!

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The video for the link on the slides is no longer available but I think this one is for the same content if anyone wants to watch it :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiUcY4dECqA

Yep, that's the one.
Thanks. You see it has the same premis as the other examples, but provides a nice video for young people who are interested in the simpsons (as well as staff and carers!)
Rob

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I hope you enjoyed the presentation and have a good sense of how you may start to use behavioural experiments. This brings us to the end of todays taught hours. Please do take care, stay well, and I very much hope to see you all again soon. Lots of positive vibes and best wishes to you all.
Rob