Inside This Moment: A Clinician’s Guide to Promoting Radical Change Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Treat Infertility Stress

Women and men diagnosed with infertility experience a variety of infertility-related stressors, including changes to their family and social networks, strain on their sexual relationship, and difficulties and unexpected challenges in their relationship. Infertility stress is linked with depression and psychological distress, and can lead to premature dropout from medical treatments and unresolv...

Acceptance as a Mediator for Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Persons with Chronic Pain?

BACKGROUND Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is considered effective for chronic pain, but little is known about active treatment components. Although acceptance correlates with better health outcomes in chronic pain patients, no study has examined its mediating effect in an experimental design. PURPOSE The aim of the present study is to investigate acceptance as a mediator in acceptance and c...

W7: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a new development within behavioral therapy. Its goal is to promote psychological flexibility. Numerous studies show that suffering results when people attempt to avoid their inner experiences (experiential avoidance). This experiential avoidance often leads to rigid and inflexible behavior that also leads them to compromise their goals and what is imp...

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): A Third Wave Behaviour Therapy

This paper introduces Acceptance and commitment Therapy (ACT) as one of the newer contextualist behaviour therapies. A brief history of the development of ACT is outlined. The concepts of equivalence and laterality and the important relationship between Relational Frame Theory and ACT are then described. The “hexagram” summary of the six core linked processes in ACT is presented and, finally, t...

Running Head: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy