No studies to date have examined the effect of counselor techniques on smoking cessation over the course of treatment. To address this gap, we examined the degree to which the use of specific Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) counseling techniques in a given session predicted smoking cessation reported at the next session. The data came from the ACT arm of a randomized controlled trial of...

Debugging is efficient if it detects all program errors in a short time. This paper discusses several techniques for improving debugging efficiency. Attention is given both to the initial debugging and to acceptance testing in the maintenance stage. A main decision is whether to use top-down or bottom-up debugging, and it is suggested that top-down debugging is more efficient if Combined with s...

This empirical study investigates psychological practitioners' experience of worksite training in acceptance and commitment therapy using an interpretative phenomenological analysis methodology. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants, and three themes emerged from the interpretative phenomenological analysis data analysis: influence of previous experiences, self and o...

background: breast cancer is a completely heterogeneous disease caused by interaction of factors, such as genetic and environmental risks leading to a progressive accumulation of genetic and epigenetic changes in breast cancer cells. moreover, it deeply affects patients' mental and social health. the present study aimed at examining the effect of group commitment-acceptance treatment on perceiv...

the purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of eclectic model based on acceptance and commitment therapy (act) and metacognitive therapy (mct) on symptoms in patient with pure generalized anxiety disorder. the research method was clinical experimentation with pre-posttest and control group. statistic community was all of the men and women patients that suffered from pure g...

Applying Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) in the context of web applications is a difficult task due to the intricateness of existing tools/frameworks and, more in general, of the proposed approaches. In this work, we present a simple approach for developing web applications in ATDD mode, based on the usage of Screen Mockups and Selenium IDE. Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx....

This descriptive case study is about the dynamics of a software engineering team using executable acceptance test-driven development in a real world project. The experiences of a customer, a developer, and a tester were discussed. The observed consensus among multiple stakeholders speaks of the effectiveness of the practice in the given context.