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Acceptance Strategies

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The Serenity Creed or prayer, first scripted by American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971), proposes ‘Grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, and the wisdom to know the difference’.

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  • Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K. D., & Wilson, K. G. (1999). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behaviour Change. New York: Guildford Press.

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Hughes, R., Kinder, A., Cooper, C.L. (2019). Acceptance Strategies. In: The Wellbeing Workout. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92552-3_44

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