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Session 1: Understanding your IBD symptoms
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Factors contributing to pain, fatigue and urgency, looking at the vicious cycle, use of self-monitoring and setting programme aims.
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Symptom diary
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**intervention facilitator phone call**
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Session 2: Balancing your activity, eating and exercise
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The importance of activity and exercise and looking at the fear avoidance model, eating patterns and setting goals.
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Working towards and reviewing goals for activity. Sleep diary
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Session 3: Improving your sleep
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The importance of sleep and looking at different sleeping patterns and habits. Techniques to improve your sleep. Setting goals.
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Working towards and reviewing goals for sleep
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Session 4a: Changing your thoughts: Part 1
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The contribution of thoughts and the impact of these on pain. Identifying unhelpful thinking.
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Keeping a thought record in the context of pain
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Session 4b: Changing your thoughts: Part 2
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Developing alternating thoughts in the context of pain.
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Keeping a thought record and coming up with alternatives
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Session 5: Managing stress and coping with emotions
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The effects of stress and how to manage it, including mindfulness exercises. Looking at different emotions. Setting goals
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Working towards and reviewing goals for managing stress and keeping a stress diary
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Session 6: Making the most out of your social support and communication
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Looking at different types of social support. Improving communication and disclosure. Setting goals
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Working towards and reviewing goals for social support and communication
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Session 7: Managing and understanding pain in IBD
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Difference between acute and chronic pain, cause of IBD-pain, looking at the vicious cycle in the context of IBD-pain.
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Session 8: The role of acceptance and self-compassion in pain
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How can acceptance help me? Looking at resilience, and self-compassion exercises.
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Session 9: Summary and maintaining improvement
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Revisiting programme aims, preparing for the future, sustaining improvements and building on them.
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