Capstone: Day 25

       For my last hour, my mentor gave me an article to read that talked about Acceptance Commitment Therapy. The article, titled "Embracing your Demons: an Overview of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy", was by Russell Harris. The article was seven pages long, so it took awhile to read. After reading the article, I am suppose to type up a summary and then send it to him. The article talked about the goal of ACT. Russell Harris defines the therapy as "Consciously bringing awareness to your here-and-now experience with openness, interest and receptiveness". The article then addressed minfulness and how ACT differs from other minfulness-based approaches. It then addressed some other aspects of ACT. Honestly, the article was interesting, but it was very hard to read because there was just too much to read. I know that if I pursue psychology that I will have to get used to a lot of heavy reading. I believe that this article was a very good way for me to see just how much reading I will have to do next year. But in the back of my head, I feel like compared to how much I'll be reading next year, a seven page article will be nothing.