Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy
Steven C. Hayes,Michael E. Levin,Jennifer C. Plumb-Vilardaga,Jennifer L. Villatte,Jacqueline Pistorello +4 more
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ACT is described as a distinct and unified model of behavior change, linked to a specific strategy of scientific development, which is termed "contextual behavioral science", and its distinctive development strategy is described.About:Â
This article is published in Behavior Therapy.The article was published on 2013-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 708 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acceptance and commitment therapy & Functional contextualism.read more
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Unified Model of Behavior Change
TL;DR: Process and outcome evidence suggest that the psychological flexibility model underlying ACT provides a unified model of behavior change and personal development that fits well with the core assumptions of counseling psychology.
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Expanding the lens of evidence-based practice in psychotherapy: a common factors perspective.
TL;DR: The case is made for the CF perspective as an additional evidence-based approach for understanding how therapy works, but also as a basis for improving the quality of mental health services.
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The impact of treatment components suggested by the psychological flexibility model: a meta-analysis of laboratory-based component studies.
TL;DR: A meta-analysis was conducted of 66 laboratory-based component studies evaluating treatment elements and processes that are suggested by the psychological flexibility model that underlies Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, finding larger effect sizes for theoretically specified outcomes, expected differences between theoretically distinct interventions, and larger effect size for component conditions that included experiential methods.
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Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research
TL;DR: Existing behavioral and neuroimaging empirical research on the perceptual and non-perceptual (conceptual and symbolic) generalization of fear and avoidance in healthy humans and patients with anxiety disorders are reviewed.
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Randomized, controlled pilot trial of a smartphone app for smoking cessation using acceptance and commitment therapy
Jonathan B. Bricker,Jonathan B. Bricker,Kristin E Mull,Julie A. Kientz,Roger Vilardaga,Laina D. Mercer,Katrina J. Akioka,Jaimee L. Heffner +7 more
TL;DR: ACT is feasible to deliver by smartphone application and shows higher engagement and promising quit rates compared to an application that follows US Clinical Practice Guidelines, and a full-scale efficacy trial is now needed.
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Using Self-Report Assessment Methods to Explore Facets of Mindfulness
TL;DR: Mindfulness facets were shown to be differentially correlated in expected ways with several other constructs and to have incremental validity in the prediction of psychological symptoms.
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Review of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change.
TL;DR: The ACT Model of Psychopathology and Human Suffering as discussed by the authors is a model of psychopathy and human suffering that is based on the Dilemma of human suffering and self-defusing self.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Model, processes and outcomes
TL;DR: There are not enough well-controlled studies to conclude that ACT is generally more effective than other active treatments across the range of problems examined, but so far the data are promising.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change
TL;DR: The ACT Model of Psychopathology and Human Suffering as discussed by the authors is a model of psychopathy and human suffering that is based on the Dilemma of human suffering and self-defusing self.
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Preliminary psychometric properties of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II: a revised measure of psychological inflexibility and experiential avoidance.
Frank W. Bond,Steven C. Hayes,Ruth A. Baer,Kenneth M. Carpenter,Nigel Guenole,Holly K. Orcutt,Thomas J. Waltz,Robert D. Zettle +7 more
TL;DR: The development and psychometric evaluation of a second version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II), which assesses the construct referred to as, variously, acceptance, experiential avoidance, and psychological inflexibility, indicates the satisfactory structure, reliability, and validity of this measure.