Effect of Applying Cognitive Defusion Techniques on Mindful Awareness, Cognitive Fusion and Believability of Delusions Among Clients With Schizophrenia

"Defusing from your delusions helps to lessen their negative impact on your behaviour. So defusion is a vital step towards being able to act flexibly, in accordance with core values, instead of being dictated to by inflexible rules, reasons, judgments etc. There are numerous exercises in ACT Companion with a focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts which would benefit from defusion, or building defusion skills, most of which are found in the open up section of the app. Some of these are reading and writing exercises, and some are guided meditation audio recordings.~ACT Companion defusion exercises~1. Letting go~2. Not good enough~3. Thought defusion~4. Observing your thoughts~5. Labelling thoughts and feelings~6. I am having the thought that.....~7. milk.milk.milk exercise~8. silly voice exercise, passenger on the bus, tug of war with a monster"