BMAC: Brief mood-boosting exercise 

This is some really good unintentional ASMR edit: the therapist's voice is so soothing

As a counselling student I'm finding these videos really helpful in terms of subject matter and Judith's whole way of being and interacting with the clients. Thanks so much for these :)

Thank you for these videos! As a grad student - currently taking Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy - your videos have been a great source of information and deeper understanding!

I really enjoy how much detail and depth you go into with her beach day.

This was really interesting and useful. I used to practice autogenic relaxation but let it slip and now find it difficult to re-establish. I think that it's probably because I feel I don't deserve any happy memories but, thanks to this video, I'll make an effort to recognise and acknowledge new happy moments as they occur, and then use them in this BMAC exercise. Thank you.

Thank you for posting these videos. They are very helpful for a visual intern psychology learner like myself!

I really like this video. I hope you can produce more. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

these vedios are really helpful...thank u so much for uploading such useful vedios

This was very interesting and something I would use in my practice, I did start falling asleep though, I started to relax a little too much... thank you for sharing this...

These are very educating. Please make some more on case studies.

I wish people could focus more on positive thoughts than negative, as you described in the video.

Hi Judith.. It's great to have your videos... Keep it up mam... I would like have few videos on managing frustration or how to improve frustration tolerance in dissociative conversion disorder... I will be waiting

Thanku for such educational video.please load all sessions together

Hi Judith, I really like how you described negative emotions being associated with threat and leading to a tunnel vision of attention. Can you please point me in the right direction to do some reading about this? Thank you

good video Dr Judith, but how is this exercise different from progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery? seems like a combination of both!

Very thankful

She looks like violet from incredibles but blonde

CMHC Grad Student: I know the BMAC procedure is relatively new, but the way you used it here seemed like a mixture of: a) bringing a recent positive memory into focus, b) a "directive" counseling technique (which you lead with your voice), as well as c) meditative tendencies. Does this procedure usually have a mix of these 3 things or is it primarily going to be using a good memory and getting the client to try to use this cognitive process when they are struggling (for example, with PTSD)?

not the best for my situation I need a guided version

Hi Judith, Wow, you can tell in this video that you are a wonderful Clinical Psychologist! My question for you is how does this method (BMAC) differ from Mindfulness and Meditations practices. I am a Relational Mindfulness Teaching Assistant and what you did is very similar to what we would do in a guided meditation.

Do you have a script we can follow to utilize this technique?

isn't this DBT, safe place visualization in distress tolerance skill?

your videos are very helpful

why a recent memory ? Would this depend upon the history of the client ?? Would we be looking for a vivid one or one where it was a positive moment in terms of life shaping event in many cases ??

I have over thinking problem.

This tech includes Combination of different kinds of visualizations

It's like CFT's safe place imaginary

cannot cure completely!!!!!!!!1

I think tutors do not keep themselves up to date with latest publications. I am not certain about how people imagine things in their head. The patient said she found it difficult in the beginning to do the exercise but then it went ok. I came across a type of therapy which does alot of imagination and I now no longer find it healthy. I'd rather do more exercise outside head. Counselling can be something like listening with empathy 'That was terrible.' and patient express their pain. People feel comfortable when they speak to someone who believes them. There should be some public lectures to attend and sort of be up to date with latest research in the field.

MDD is a severe disease and it prohibits thinking and feeling. I am not sure this would help.

is this staged?