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What Is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)?

2020
This chapter provides a broad overview of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), including empirical evidence for its effectiveness, how it fits with other cognitive-behavioral therapies, and defining features of ACT. The chapter also explains the theory and scientific philosophy underlying ACT so that readers have a framework to which to refer as ...
Michael P. Twohig   +2 more
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Randomized controlled trial of a web-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) program to promote mental health in university students.

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2019
OBJECTIVE This study evaluated a 4-week web-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) mental health promotion intervention for university students.
Shelley Viskovich, K. Pakenham
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Cancer Patients

2021
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is often described as one of the newer “third wave” cognitive behavioral therapies. ACT is transdiagnostic and functions by increasing psychological flexibility and training skills in appropriate behavioral responses to distressing cognitions and emotions.
Nicholas J. Hulbert-Williams   +2 more
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Guided Online for Distressed Caregivers of Persons Living with Dementia

Clinical Gerontologist, 2021
Objectives This study examined the effects of a guided online acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) intervention on distressed family caregivers of persons living with dementia and explored the experiences of these caregivers in the ACT intervention ...
Areum Han   +3 more
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A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) versus Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) for chronic illness.

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 2021
Literature suggests that Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is effective in improving well-being and in reducing psychopathological symptoms commonly experienced by people with chronic illness (CI).
S. Carvalho   +5 more
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): An Overview for Practitioners

Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2012
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers school counsellors a practical and meaningful approach to helping students deal with a range of issues. This is achieved through encouraging psychological flexibility through the application of six key principles. This article describes our introduction to ACT, ACT's application to children and adolescents,
Tim Bowden, Sandra Bowden
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to reduce depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal of Affective Disorders, 2019
OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of ACT on depression reduction and further examine the relationship between different follow-up periods, different degree of depression, and different age of patients through subgroup ...
Zhenggang Bai   +4 more
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Anxiety Disorders

Psychiatric Clinics of North America
Treating anxiety disorders with acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has a strong theoretical and empirical foundation. In this overview, we review the theoretic basis for using ACT to treat anxiety disorders, its clinical applications, research evidence to date, and future directions.
Joanna J, Arch   +2 more
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Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on emotional regulation and loneliness of divorced women in Iran.

Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 2021
Ineffective emotional regulation and loneliness both play a key role in the development of mental disorders. Divorced individuals are particularly predisposed to loneliness in cultures where post-divorce relationships are uncommon or stigmatized. The aim
A. Mahmoudpour   +3 more
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A new approach in psychotherapy: ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy)

The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2011
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on enhancing psychological flexibility in the service of achieving core life values. One thing that distinguishes ACT from other psychotherapies is its grounding in empirical behavioural science. The results of the latter suggest that the capacity for human language can produce seriously negative ...
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