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Emotion regulation in acceptance and commitment therapy
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers an alternative to traditional psychotherapies designed to regulate affect. ACT is based on the premise that normal cognitive processes distort and enhance the experience of unpleasant emotion, leading clients to engage in problematic behaviors designed to avoid or attenuate those unpleasant emotions. Such avoidant behavior patterns can hinder and prevent client movement toward valued goals and place the client in harmful situations. Rather than working to change cognitions or decrease levels of emotion, the ACT approach involves the client directly experiencing problematic emotions in a context in which the literal functions of language enhancing the negative implications of those emotions are stripped away. The focus throughout the treatment is facilitating the client's movement toward a more valued and personally fulfilling life, in a context in which previously obstructive unpleasant emotions no longer serve as obstructions. A case study is provided to illustrate some of ACT's core techniques.
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“Research largely among non-Hispanic Whites over the past two decades has found that experiential avoidance is a transdiagnostic construct.”
From Perceived Discrimination, Experiential Avoidance, and Mental Health among Hispanic Adults in Primary Care (2022) · cites this paper as Blackledge & Hayes, 2001
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“Experiential avoidance is theorized to be a broad-based affective diathesis that is implicated in a variety of psychiatric problems”
From Mindful attention moderating the effect of experiential avoidance in terms of mental health among Latinos in a federally qualified health center (2018) · cites this paper as Blackledge and Hayes, 2001
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“Distress tolerance is an important facet in emotion regulation; experiencing low distress tolerance often relates to difficulty an individual has in experiencing negative feelings (Blackledge & Hayes, 2001).”
From Examination of outcomes among sexual minorities in treatment for obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (2022) · cites this paper as Blackledge & Hayes, 2001
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“On one hand, increased empathy can alleviate the emotional numbness (van Der Kolk and Saporta 1991) and interpersonal aloofness (DeWall and Baumeister 2006) often experienced by trauma victims in response to the overwhelming emotional distress associated with the traumatic experience and their anxiety symptoms (Paivio and Laurent 2001).”
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“This avoidance of aversive private events, called experiential avoidance, is assumed to underlie much of people’s suffering, and emotional dysregulation arises from attempts to avoid and alter private experiences that are judged to be aversive [25].”
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- Blackledge, J. T., & Hayes, S. C.
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- Journal of Clinical Psychology
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- 2001
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