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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy
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A number of recent authors have compared acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and traditional cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). The present article describes ACT as a distinct and unified model of behavior change, linked to a specific strategy of scientific development, which we term "contextual behavioral science." We outline the empirical progress of ACT and describe its distinctive development strategy. A contextual behavioral science approach is an inductive attempt to build more adequate psychological systems based on philosophical clarity; the development of basic principles and theories; the development of applied theories linked to basic ones; techniques and components linked to these processes and principles; measurement of theoretically key processes; an emphasis on mediation and moderation in the analysis of applied impact; an interest in effectiveness, dissemination, and training; empirical testing of the research program across a broad range of areas and levels of analysis; and the creation of a more effective scientific and clinical community. We argue that this is a reasonable approach, focused on long-term progress, and that in broad terms it seems to be working. ACT is not hostile to traditional CBT, and is not directly buoyed by whatever weaknesses traditional CBT may have. ACT should be measured at least in part against its own goals as specified by its own developmental strategy. © 2011 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
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“For example, humans who are aroused by a stimulus that has been paired with shock will be even more aroused by a neutral stimulus related to the original stimulus in the presence of a “larger than” cue (Dougher, Hamilton, Fink, & Harrington, 2007).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A BASIC ACCOUNT OF COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH MANIPULABLE, CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES ORGANIZED NTO THEORIES
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- Partly supportedcites Dougher, Hamilton, Fink, & Harrington, 2007 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results and Discussion report that the previously unpaired C stimulus elicited greater skin-conductance changes than the shock-paired B stimulus in most experimental participants. The Procedure describes C as a stimulus trained to occasion selection of the largest comparison, but does not describe a separate “larger than” cue being present during the skin-conductance test. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“And as an empirical fact ACT reduces “symptoms” quite well (Hayes, Luoma, Bond, Masuda, & Lillis, 2006).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A MODEL OF PATHOLOGY, INTERVENTION, AND HEALTH TIED TO BEHAVIORAL PRINCIPLES
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Hayes, Luoma, Bond, Masuda, & Lillis, 2006 source
The quantitative outcomes section (p. 15) reports an average between-condition effect size of 0.66 for clinically relevant ACT outcomes, both after treatment and at follow-up. The Discussion (p. 21) says the evidence suggests ACT works across a broad range of problems, while cautioning that the literature was still young. Those findings support the sentence’s qualitative claim that ACT reduces symptoms quite well. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“Mindfulness measures also effectively tap these processes (Baer, Smith, & Allen, 2004; Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer, & Toney, 2006).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > MEASURE THEORETICAL PROCESSES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO PATHOLOGY AND HEALTH
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Baer, Smith, & Allen, 2004 source
- Supportedcites Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Krietemeyer, & Toney, 2006 source
The General Discussion (p. 17) concludes that self-report mindfulness questionnaires have good psychometric properties. Part 2 (p. 6) reports that the questionnaires correlate with related variables in predicted directions, supporting the broad claim that they tap mindfulness-related processes. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“For example, Twohig, Hayes, and Masuda (2006) and Twohig et al. (2010) found that the elements of an ACT model minus behavioral exposure were effective for obsessive-compulsive disorder.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > BUILD AND TEST TECHNIQUES AND COMPONENTS LINKED TO PROCESSES AND PRINCIPLES
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Twohig, Hayes, and Masuda (2006) source
- Supportedcites Twohig et al. (2010) source
The Discussion reports greater improvement in OCD symptoms with ACT than with progressive relaxation training, both after treatment and at follow-up. The trial omitted formal in-session exposure procedures, although the authors caution in “ACT and exposure” that participants’ values-based activities may have functioned as exposure in a broader sense. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“The first two published ACT outcome studies involved a direct comparison of ACT to cognitive therapy (CT; Zettle & Hayes, 1986; Zettle & Raines, 1989).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > EMPHASIZING MEDIATION AND MODERATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF APPLIED IMPACT
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Zettle & Hayes, 1986 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Related Research section describes a direct comparison of comprehensive distancing with two variants of cognitive therapy and briefly reports outcomes. It does not call the intervention ACT or establish that this and the separately cited study were the first two published ACT outcome studies; it says fuller outcome data would be presented elsewhere. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.83)
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Zettle & Raines, 1989 source
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“RFT researchers have discovered that the core of human language and cognition is learning to relate events mutually and in combination not simply on the basis of their formal properties (e.g., size, shape) but also on the basis of arbitrary cues.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A BASIC ACCOUNT OF COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH MANIPULABLE, CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES ORGANIZED NTO THEORIES
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“training in relational framing can increase language acquisition and higher-order skills such as perspective taking and empathy.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A BASIC ACCOUNT OF COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH MANIPULABLE, CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES ORGANIZED NTO THEORIES
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“weakness in relational framing is associated with significant cognitive deficits”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A BASIC ACCOUNT OF COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH MANIPULABLE, CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES ORGANIZED NTO THEORIES
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“Given a change agenda, people tend toward suppressive tactics that expand difficult content (John & Gross, 2004; Wegner, 1994) even if that was decidedly not the goal of the clinician.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A MODEL OF PATHOLOGY, INTERVENTION, AND HEALTH TIED TO BEHAVIORAL PRINCIPLES
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“Many complex cognitive phenomena, such as metaphorical reasoning, sense of self, lexical recognition, and implicit cognition can now be modeled and researched, both behaviorally and neurobiologically, in the RFT laboratory.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A BASIC ACCOUNT OF COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH MANIPULABLE, CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES ORGANIZED NTO THEORIES
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“Evidence suggests these relational skills are operant (e.g., Berens & Hayes, 2007), and that they impact all other behavioral processes, both operant and classical.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A BASIC ACCOUNT OF COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH MANIPULABLE, CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES ORGANIZED NTO THEORIES
What the sources say
- Supportedcites Berens & Hayes, 2007 source
The citation is attached to the first clause, which says relational skills are operant. In the Implications section, the authors state that their data suggest relational operants exist; the Discussion describes their study as controlled evidence that relational frames are learned. The later claim about effects on other behavioral processes is not attributed to this citation. (LLM, conf=0.93)
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“Believability of depressive thoughts mediated outcomes in ACT but not CT (Hayes et al., 2006; Zettle & Hayes, 1986);”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > EMPHASIZING MEDIATION AND MODERATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF APPLIED IMPACT
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Hayes et al., 2006 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Mediational studies section (p. 17) reports that changes in the believability of depressive thoughts mediated ACT’s superior outcomes relative to CT. It does not report a separate analysis showing that believability did not mediate outcomes within the CT group, so the “but not CT” portion is not established. (LLM, conf=0.84)
- Partly supportedcites Zettle & Hayes, 1986 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The ATQ section reports a larger reduction in depressive-thought believability with comprehensive distancing than with cognitive therapy, and Related Research reports better depression outcomes for the distancing group. But the paper does not show that believability mediated outcomes in either group; it also reports that believability declined in both groups. The claim turns a tentative account of differing processes into a specific mediation finding. (LLM, conf=0.86)
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“For example, some studies show mediation using processes assessed before outcome differences are seen (e.g., Gifford et al., 2004; Lundgren et al., 2008; Zettle & Hayes, 1986, as reanalyzed in Hayes et al., 2006); in other cases the mediators were assessed concurrently with outcome.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > EMPHASIZING MEDIATION AND MODERATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF APPLIED IMPACT
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Gifford et al., 2004 source
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lundgren et al., 2008 source
- Partly supportedcites Zettle & Hayes, 1986 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
In Related Research, the paper reports a significant depression-outcome difference at follow-up; in ATQ, it reports a significant difference in thought believability at posttreatment. That supports the stated ordering of process and outcome differences for this study. The paper calls its process findings tentative, however, and does not report a mediation analysis; the cited reanalysis cannot be assessed from this paper's text. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ; Hayes et al., 2004; see Bond et al., in press, for a review of the AAQ II) assesses experiential avoidance and psychological flexibility fairly broadly and does a very good job of predicting many forms of psychopathology, as is predicted by the model (Hayes et al., 2006).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > MEASURE THEORETICAL PROCESSES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO PATHOLOGY AND HEALTH
What the sources say
- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Hayes et al., 2004 source
- Supportedcites Hayes et al., 2006 source
In Research on ACT (p. 10), the paper describes the AAQ as a broad measure of experiential avoidance and ACT processes bearing on psychological flexibility. On pp. 12–13, it reports associations with depression, anxiety, and other mental-health measures, a longitudinal prediction of better mental health, and correlations consistent with the ACT model. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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“Overall the between-group effect size was d=.66 at post and d=.65 at follow-up.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > TEST THE RESEARCH PROGRAM ACROSS A BROAD RANGE OF AREAS AND LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
What the sources say
- Partly supportedcites Hayes et al., 2006 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The 'Quantitative characterization of the relative strength of ACT outcomes' section (p. 15) reports an overall between-condition Cohen’s d of .66 at post, matching the claim. It reports .66—not .65—at follow-up. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“In the 1980s we conducted more than a dozen studies on the theories behind common CBT procedures, and found little or no support for these models (see Rosenfarb & Hayes, 1984, on cognitive reappraisal/self-statements for an example of these).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The CBT Tradition and the Origins of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Rosenfarb & Hayes, 1984 source
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“RFT researchers have found that a sense of locus derives from learning “deictic relational frames,” such as “I–you,” “here–there,” and “now–then,” and that these are central to the ability to take the perspective of others, feel empathy, or to communicate (Rehfeldt & Barnes-Holmes, 2009).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A MODEL OF PATHOLOGY, INTERVENTION, AND HEALTH TIED TO BEHAVIORAL PRINCIPLES
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- Not matchedcites Rehfeldt & Barnes-Holmes, 2009
Couldn’t be matched to a paper in Crossref, so it can’t be checked.
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“Lappalainen et al. found that CBT increased self-confidence more than acceptance at post, while the reverse was found for ACT.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > EMPHASIZING MEDIATION AND MODERATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF APPLIED IMPACT
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lappalainen et al., 2007 source
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In the paper
“Both related to outcomes on the SCL-90 but if partial correlations with outcome were calculated for both, self-confidence no longer predicted outcome.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > EMPHASIZING MEDIATION AND MODERATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF APPLIED IMPACT
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Lappalainen et al., 2007 source
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“For example, Öst (2008) criticized the lack of attention to syndromal diagnosis in the ACT literature, failing to note why this choice was made or to note the use of functional dimensional process information instead.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Öst, 2008
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“Interventions with even more challenging populations (e.g., those with IQs below 70, brain-injured clients, young children, prisoners) are currently being tested.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > TEST THE RESEARCH PROGRAM ACROSS A BROAD RANGE OF AREAS AND LEVELS OF ANALYSIS
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“In the usual approach, philosophical assumptions are not explicated, basic processes are all too often an afterthought, and if they exist at all theories are generally narrowly focused, vague, expressed in commonsense terms, and at times wholy untested.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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“ACT and RFT are being developed by an open, diverse, nonhierarchical worldwide community of clinicians, basic scientists, applied scientists, scholars, and students.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > CREATE AN OPEN, DIVERSE, AND NONHIERARCHICAL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
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“It is a value of the ACT/RFT development community to consciously limit hierarchy, isolation, and self-interest.”
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“various considerations have led well-known and respected CBS researchers to call their protocols by other names at times (e.g., McCracken, 2005).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > CREATE AN OPEN, DIVERSE, AND NONHIERARCHICAL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
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- Not matchedcites McCracken, 2005
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“As of late 2011, ACBS had nearly 4,000 members, more than half outside of the United States.”
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“To our knowledge, no progressive science has ever been built in such a fashion.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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“in their meta-analysis of ACT Powers et al. (2009) entered disorder-specific distress as a primary outcome, even at times categorizing targeted behavioral outcomes as secondary.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Powers et al., 2009 source
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“in addition to studies on training (e.g., Luoma et al., 2007).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > EARLY AND CONTINUOUS TESTS OF EFFECTIVENESS, DISSEMINATION, AND TRAINING STRATEGIES
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Luoma et al., 2007 source
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“For example, ACBS has eschewed certification of therapists.”
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“There is no attempt to restrict those decisions in presentations accepted at ACBS conventions.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > CREATE AN OPEN, DIVERSE, AND NONHIERARCHICAL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
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“Junior researchers often are applauded (or at least funded) for mixing and matching techniques and syndromes like cooks in a kitchen, relabeling every combination as a model, approach, or treatment, provided only that in the end the technological stew is tested in the form of a randomized trial.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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“Even serious scholars do not seem to understand the very different strategy being followed by the CBS community.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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“The idea seems to be that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) style of medication validation can be used to build a progressive field based on manualized treatments focused on well-specified syndromes that are empirically validated in well-controlled studies.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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“The evidence for that claim is in the very list of matched CBT studies he created.”
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“Nevertheless, Powers et al. entered pain intensity as a primary outcome of ACT studies on chronic pain in their meta-analysis and large effect sizes suddenly approached zero in some cases.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Powers et al., 2009 source
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“Whether protocols that comport with an ACT model are branded “ACT” is considered inside the CBS community to be a strategic decision, not a matter of fundamental importance”
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“The CBT list of studies was 100% composed of studies on depression and anxiety, was funded well (77% with grants of more than $150,000), contained no mediational analyses, and provided almost no process information of any kind.”
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“ACT trainers are “recognized” by a free process of peer review, and must sign a values statement in which protocols are made available for free or at low cost, and entanglement of ACT training with proprietary claims are prohibited.”
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“but a domination of empirically validated technology over progressive theory is deeply embedded in contemporary empirical clinical thinking.”
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“The mountain of manuals and models that result is impossible to simplify or even to characterize.”
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“He compared the ACT literature to a matched set of traditional CBT studies using a set of methodological standards drawn from a traditional model of development applied and argued that the ACT literature was weaker, but failed to note or explain the evidence that instead ACT studies were following a different model of scientific development.”
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- Not matchedcites Öst, 2008
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“The breadth of ACT research is undeniable, and RFT is even broader.”
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“Acceptance and mindfulness techniques are now entering into new manuals at light speed, sometimes sitting side by side with seemingly contradictory methods, and without a well-crafted strategy in place for developing a real science out of this technological tangle.”
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“As we have tried to describe, ACT and RFT researchers have done so.”
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“Various ACT methods are argued to be the same or different, but the grounds for the argument seem to be appearances, not well-crafted theory, data, or deep and broad exposure.”
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“Due in part to the dominance of the FDA model, ACT is most often approached as a collection of techniques evaluated only in terms of outcomes.”
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“On such a basis, a sophisticated CBT scholar can argue that ACT is the same as cognitive therapy (Hofmann & Asmundson, 2008) and in the next breath argue that ACT is the same as an obscure Japanese treatment from the early part of the last century (Hofmann, 2008).”
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“The scientific progress of empirical clinical psychology seems mixed—no one claims that either paradise or failure has been achieved.”
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“So far the vast majority of ACT critics have not explored ACT extensively, whether that is meant experientially or in the intellectual sense of a deep understanding of functional contextualism, RFT, and the CBS strategy of development.”
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“It would be unusual to evaluate an empirical clinical approach by examining the clarity of its philosophical assumptions; by the adequacy, progressivity, and coherence of its basic behavioral principles; by the integrity of its processes of change; by the coherence and general utility of its theory; and by the consistency of the link between all of these and successful outcomes.”
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“Although many of the techniques in ACT are relatively distinct, many are shared with other approaches, especially within CBT writ large but also with experiential, humanistic, and analytic traditions.”
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“It seems clear that the field is changing with the ascendance of mindfulness and acceptance-based approaches and their core assumptions that differ so from traditional CBT assumptions.”
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“The core unit of analysis adopted is the act in context: the ongoing situated purposive action (Hayes, 1993; Pepper, 1942).”
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- Not matchedcites Hayes, 1993
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“ACT researchers are skeptical of the idea that CBT needs to apply “the cognitive model of a particular disorder with the use of a variety of techniques designed to modify the dysfunctional beliefs and faulty information processing characteristic of each disorder” (Beck, 1993, p. 194) or that its core is to “identify distorted cognitions” and then to subject these distortions “to logical analysis”
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“The present article describes ACT as a distinct and unified model of behavior change, linked to a specific strategy of scientific development, which we term “contextual behavioral science.””
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“All actions are considered to be whole events, having meaning only with reference to their context.”
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“ACT is part of the larger family of behavioral and cognitive therapies (Forman & Herbert, 2009) and has always been said to be so (e.g., Hayes, Strosahl, et al., 1999, p. 79).”
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- Not matchedcites Forman & Herbert, 2009
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“The change from behavior therapy to CBT reflected the right problem but not the best solution.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > DEVELOP A BASIC ACCOUNT OF COMPLEX HUMAN BEHAVIOR WITH MANIPULABLE, CONTEXTUAL PRINCIPLES ORGANIZED NTO THEORIES
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“ACT is an overarching model of key intervention and change processes, linked to a research program on the nature of language and cognition, to a pragmatic philosophy of science, and to a model of how to speed scientific development that we call here a contextual behavioral science (CBS) approach.”
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“While functional contextualists assume the one (“real”) world, there may be many ways of successfully differentiating the world, depending on one’s goals.”
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“From an ACT/RFT approach, psychopathology is caused in large part by the tendency to become entangled in cognition, taking thoughts literally and remaining in a problem-solving mode even when that is not helpful.”
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“This in turn undermines excessive rule control and increases psychological flexibility.”
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“The ability to move voluntarily from one domain of the present to another, or to persist in a focus when that is needed, is useful in bringing attention itself under purposive control and greatly expands what the present environment affords.”
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“Ironically, acceptance is one of the biggest functional changes possible, and often will ultimately change the form of emotional events themselves.”
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“The CBS solution to this conundrum is to develop clinically useful models of pathology and treatment based on middle-level terms that are not behavioral principles but are based on them.”
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“Acceptance is not passive tolerance or resignation but an intentional behavior that alters the function of inner experiences from events to be avoided to a focus of interest, curiosity, and observation as part of living a valued life.”
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“Behavioral principles are difficult to scale directly into clinical work, and early bold attempts to do so (Kanfer & Saslow, 1969) were long ago put aside.”
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- Not matchedcites Kanfer & Saslow, 1969
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“Cognitive, emotional, and behavioral inflexibility narrows the opportunities that are apparently present to move in a valued direction.”
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“This is termed “experiential avoidance,” which is thought to enormously restrict behavioral flexibility and effectiveness.”
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“The limits of perspective taking cannot be consciously known (e.g., you cannot consciously note the limits of consciousness) and thus provide a transcendent, spiritual aspect to human experience.”
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“RFT in turn is leading to applied programs in many areas.”
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“ACT researchers have found that word repetition (Hayes, Strosahl, et al., 1999, pp. 154–156) reduces both believability and subjective distress experienced from negative self-relevant phrases (Masuda, Hayes, Sackett, & Twohig, 2004).”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > ACT: A CBS Approach > BUILD AND TEST TECHNIQUES AND COMPONENTS LINKED TO PROCESSES AND PRINCIPLES
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Masuda, Hayes, Sackett, & Twohig, 2004 source
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“The ACT model is meant to be a kind of user-friendly interface—an operating system if you will—that stands atop a far more extensive enterprise.”
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“All complex organisms show avoidance learning, but in nonverbal organisms what is avoided are aversive stimuli, not reactions to them.”
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“Theoretically, it is argued that all six processes are related to each other in all directions, but specific life histories, organismic patterns, and current situations enhance or diminish these processes and their interrelationships.”
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“An inadequate analysis of cognition was one source of the difficulty but the other was complexity.”
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“ACT promotes attending to what is present in a focused, voluntary, and flexible fashion, linked to one’s values and purposes.”
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“The relational context determines how and when events are related; the functional context determines what functions will be transformed in terms of a relational network.”
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“For example, teaching a person to add “I am having the thought that …” to a self evaluation such as “I’m bad” is indeed designed to amplify the person’s cognitive network (it is a relational context intervention) but in a way that diminishes automatic and unhelpful cognitive control (it is also designed to be a helpful functional context intervention).”
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“Furthermore, arbitrary applicability means that virtually any situation can evoke aversive emotions, such as when a beautiful sunset makes a person sad because a person who passed away is not there to see it.”
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“ACT seeks to undermine an attachment to a conceptualized self (our fused, evaluative stories about who we are) and to promote contact with a sense of self based on the “I/here/nowness” of conscious experience.”
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“The “soldiers on parade” mindfulness exercise (Hayes, Strosahl, et al., 1999, pp. 158–160) reduces subjective distress from an intrusive thought-provoking task (Marcks & Woods, 2005) and willingness to engage in the task again (Marcks & Woods, 2007).”
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“It is important in ACT in part because self-as-context interventions help clients see inner experiences as distinct from consciousness as such, and thus not necessarily a threat.”
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“Although fusion is not necessarily harmful, it becomes so when over-extended.”
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“The coming together of all of these processes is termed “psychological inflexibility,” which is argued to be at the core of most human suffering.”
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“Acceptance seems to depend upon defusion, for example, because it is hard to embrace private events fully if they are as we evaluate them to be.”
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“As RFT explains, experiential avoidance often works in the short term to reduce some discomfort, but can have long-term negative effects. This idea is supported in the larger literature (Baumeister, Zell, & Tice, 2007; John & Gross, 2004; Pennebaker & Chung, 2007) and by numerous studies on experiential avoidance per se (see Chawla & Ostafin, 2007, for a recent review).”
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“Because of the nature of language itself, trying to undermine literality using literal language is difficult and can easily lead to more entanglement in the name of “understanding.””
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“They fail to stay in contact with a more transcendent sense of self, allowing behavioral patterns to be dominated by a conceptualized sense of self instead.”
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“Relational context interventions can also be functional context interventions and the two can easily conflict.”
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“suggesting less behavioral impact and more psychological flexibility in the presence of hallucinations and delusions.”
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“Values measures are also beginning to appear (e.g., Lundgren et al., 2008; Wilson, Sandoz, & Kitchens, 2010).”
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“suggesting these interventions may reduce the dominant control of distress over subsequent behavior and allow for more flexible responding in aversive contexts.”
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“There needs to be tight links between theoretical constructs and the auxiliaries and conditions of measurement, so that empirical problems can be attributed to the theory rather than to characteristics of the measure (Hayes, 2004).”
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“For example, it is known that depressed individuals are less sensitive to emotional contexts and show less reactivity to both positive and negative emotional stimuli (Rottenberg, Gross, & Gotlib, 2005)”
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“Believability ratings are commonly used to assess defusion (e.g., Varra, Hayes, Roget, & Fisher, 2008) and specific defusion questionnaires have emerged (Wicksell, Renofalt, Olsson, Bond, & Melin, 2008).”
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“Similarly, ACT for persons with psychosis reduces self-report of positive symptoms less than treatment as usual, but patients are rehospitalizated less—particularly those who admit to positive symptoms (Bach & Hayes, 2002)”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Bach & Hayes, 2002 source
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“Öst was not being baised: that is, indeed, where the traditional vision of scientific development inside CBT had led us, with large and expensive studies excessively focused on a relatively narrow set of problems but with very weak process knowledge and limited evidence of theoretical coherence and progress.”
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“The only way to test and further develop a putatively unified model is to apply it to topographically distinct populations understood in terms of the functional dimensional processes specified by the model.”
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“The failures so far seem theoretically sensible (e.g., it makes sense that acceptance will not help with food cravings if the person is not dominated by food to begin with) but a lot remains to be learned.”
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“That breadth exists because of this strategic vision.”
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“Diversity and openness ensures that the range of ideas, settings, backgrounds, professions, and cultures brought to this development strategy is large and that blind spots can be more readily contacted, especially those held by developers and early explorers.”
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“Technological knowledge alone gives us no basis for dealing with a new problem or situation, no systematic means to develop new techniques, and no way to organize the field except under broad tribal labels such as “CBT” that are gradually becoming meaningless.”
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“The American Psychiatric Association planning committee for the next edition of the DSM (Kupfer, First, & Regier, 2002) concluded “Reification of DSM-IV entities, to the point that they are considered to be equivalent to diseases, is more likely to obscure than to elucidate research findings”
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“The creation of a broad and diverse development community is a necessary feature of the CBS approach for three reasons.”
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“First, the inductive and yet broadly focused development strategy of a CBS approach can be quite slow.”
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“It becomes “difficult to assimilate the mountain of seemingly disconnected bits of information that science-as-technology presents. The field becomes an incoherent mass, impossible to master and impossible to teach [and] the shallow level of analysis means that other areas of science cannot be related to clinical techniques” (Hayes, Strosahl, et al., 1999, p. 15).”
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“Finally, community control over development avoids the problem faced by labeled and certified empirically supported treatments linked to scientific development strategies based on adherence to validated manuals, namely, that only developers or the anointed have the power to add or subtract elements.”
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“Only many hands can mount such an agenda.”
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“Given the distant and high aspirations of a CBS approach, the flexibility and temporal extension of communitarian control is necessary.”
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“Those outside of the behavior analytic tradition are commonly worried about the expansive goals of the ACT/RFT community, but it is fully consistent with Skinner’s (1948) original vision.”
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- Not matchedcites Skinner, 1948
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“The hierarchy, self-focus, and ossification that may result could well slow long-term scientific progress.”
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“The field needs a development strategy linked to pragmatically useful processes and theory”
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“Knowledge development in such an approach is embedded and horizontal.”
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“Such an approach to treatment testing may allow researchers to more readily identify the boundary conditions of the model in accounting for pathology and specifying treatment course and outcome”
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“This suggests that effectiveness, training, and dissemination research should begin early and be emphasized throughout (Hayes, 2002).”
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“Long-term scientific progress is the key to defeating such a difficult opponent, but that will take more than effort. It requires a strategy that works.”
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“The level of technique is a moving target and unless processes are understood, it is impossible to know when different techniques are truly different”
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“A more interesting way to compare approaches, if comparisons are to be made, is to compare their assumptions, theories, evidence regarding processes of change, component evidence, and developmental strategy.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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“This is not an issue of label or school.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > Conclusion
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“The contextual behavioral science approach seems coherent, reasonable, and distinctive, and it has now yielded a body of work that is substantial enough for it to deserve to be considered on its own terms.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > Conclusion
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“Generational changes within a field provide opportunities for advancement and renewal.”
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“The statement “unlike CBT, there is little emphasis in MBCT [mindfulness-based cognitive therapy] on changing the content of thoughts; rather, the emphasis is on changing awareness of and relationship to thoughts” (Segal, Teasdale, & Williams, 2004, p. 54) could have been stated by an ACT theorist without altering a single word other than the name of the therapy.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > Conclusion
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“ACT and traditional CBT are distinct models but they are part of the same family and they share the same opponent: the human suffering that exists because of scientific ignorance.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > Conclusion
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“These may be wasted, however, unless we think seriously about the scientific development strategies that are most likely to produce long-term progress.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > Conclusion
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“But whether it succeeds or fails depends not one bit on the success or failure of traditional CBT or any other area of empirical clinical science and practice.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > Conclusion
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“Everyday language and commonsense understanding based on mainstream assumptions is too flexible for that exercise to work well.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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“in the long run what seems most important are not empirically supported packages, techniques, or labels, and the monuments to immortality developers tend to build around them but empirically supported processes and theories (Rosen & Davison, 2003)”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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“The meta-anlysis was still reasonably supportive, but the failure to characterize evidence in an ACT-consistent way contributed to the incorrect conclusion that ACT was only as effective as any alternative active treatment (see Levin & Hayes, in press, for a re-analysis of their data set).”
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- Not matchedcites Levin & Hayes, in press
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“Frankly, that argument will not be decided by established researchers—it will be decided sociologically by junior researchers, theorists, and students choosing where to invest their life energy.”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > Conclusion
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“Logically, that evidentiary basis would make cognitive therapy a form of Morita therapy”
§ Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy > The Scientific Development Strategy of Empirical Clinical Psychology
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The authors state this as an assumption.
There is one real world.
“While functional contextualists assume the one (“real”) world, there may be many ways of successfully differentiating the world, depending on one’s goals.”
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All scientific theories are ultimately shown to be incorrect.
“All scientific theories are ultimately shown to be incorrect.”
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The CBT tradition has relatively little written about how to produce greater progress within an empirical approach.
“but in the cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) tradition relatively little has been written about how to produce greater progress within an empirical approach.”
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ACT is not hostile to traditional CBT and is not directly buoyed by whatever weaknesses traditional CBT may have.
“ACT is not hostile to traditional CBT, and is not directly buoyed by whatever weaknesses traditional CBT may have.”
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Nearly two dozen formal mediational analyses of ACT now exist, including some that are analyzed and being written up but not yet published or in press.
“Nearly two dozen formal mediational analyses of ACT now exist, including those that are analyzed and being written up but are not yet published or in press.”
The paper relies on this without support.
There are now scores of studies on ACT component methods, including studies not done by ACT researchers but clearly applicable to these components.
“There are now scores of studies on ACT component methods, including those not done by ACT researchers but clearly applicable to these components.”
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The theoretical model provides the conceptual scaffolding for creating and deploying treatment technologies and components.
“The theoretical model provides the conceptual scaffolding for creating and deploying treatment technologies and components.”
The authors state this as an assumption.
In a CBS approach, all ideas and methods are contextually limited.
“in a CBS approach all ideas and methods are assumed to be contextually limited.”
The paper relies on this without support.
From a pragmatic perspective, the truth of an analysis is found in its utility where it is applied.
“From a pragmatic perspective, the truth of a given analysis is found in its utility where it is applied.”
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“Quit2Heal is also based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a behavioral approach that promote smoking cessation by teaching skills to observe and accept cravings to smoke without smoking.39”
From Efficacy of smartphone applications to help cancer patients quit smoking: Protocol of the Quit2Heal randomized controlled trial (2023) · cites this paper as [39]
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“It has been shown to have good internal consistency and validity and also to mediate behavioral outcomes in ACT interventions [31].”
From Development and evaluation of an 1-day Acceptance and Commitment Therapy workshop for Veterans with comorbid chronic pain, TBI, and psychological distress: Outcomes from a pilot study (2020) · cites this paper as [31]
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“Among the various therapeutic orientations, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can be a promising approach for exploring cultural tailoring in treatment.”
From Differential associations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes with psychological distress across racial groups. (2026) · cites this paper as [15]
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“From a functional contextualist perspective, experiential avoidance is primarily problematic when it serves as a precursor to behavioral passivity, such as Inaction.15”
From Differential associations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes with psychological distress across racial groups. (2026) · cites this paper as [15]
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“Many individuals attempt to change the form, frequency, or intensity of internal experiences such as thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations, even if doing so leads to actions that conflict with their values or goals.This effort often results in EA, which reduces psychological flexibility (Hayes et al., 2013).”
From Acceptance and commitment therapy effectiveness for fear of cancer recurrence: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2025) · cites this paper as Hayes et al., 2013
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“Specifically, the six core therapeutic processes of ACT are acceptance, cognitive defusion, contact with present moment, self-as-context, values, and committed action.”
From Acceptance and commitment therapy in adult cancer survivors: a systematic review and conceptual model (2021) · cites this paper as [20]
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“The contextual behavioral scientific approach that gave rise to ACT (Hayes et al., 2013) is well-suited to modular treatment design and evaluation because both rest on a pragmatic philosophy that lends itself to inductive and iterative methodologies for knowledge development and dissemination.”
From Acceptance and Commitment Therapy modules: Differential impact on treatment processes and outcomes (2016) · cites this paper as Hayes et al., 2013
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“This result is consistent with ACT’s psychological flexibility model, which makes a distinction between symptom reduction and well-being (Hayes et al., 2013).”
From Acceptance and Commitment Therapy modules: Differential impact on treatment processes and outcomes (2016) · cites this paper as Hayes et al., 2013
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“ACT addresses goals, values, barriers, and cognition through acceptance, mindfulness, commitment, and behavior changes [40-42].”
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“we utilized the ACT treatment model because it is transdiagnostic14 and applicable to the range of difficulties experienced by the patient population recruited, including depression, anxiety, and/or chronic pain7.”
From Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Prevention of Chronic Postsurgical Pain and Opioid Use in At-Risk Veterans: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Study. (2018) · cites this paper as [14]
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“This model is widely used in teaching (Harris, 2019) and studying ACT (Hayes et al., 2013)”
From Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes and Mediation: Challenges and How to Address Them (2023) · cites this paper as Hayes et al., 2013
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“According to the ACT model, increased psychological flexibility is the primary mechanism underlying the beneficial health effects of ACT [15].”
From Protocol of a randomized trial of acceptance and commitment therapy for fatigue interference in metastatic breast cancer (2020) · cites this paper as [15]
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“' concrete goals that are values consistent can be achieved ' (Hayes et al ., 2013; p. 8).”
From Acceptance and commitment therapy as an approach for working with climate distress (2024) · cites this paper as Hayes et al ., 2013
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“Therefore, ACT targets ineffective and unhelpful behaviour which functions to avoid internal events (e.g., unwanted thoughts, emotions, and stress), and introduces mindfulness and acceptance-based skills to facilitate behaviour change and reduce psychological suffering [22,24].”
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“Moreover, in including a measure of valued action, it will be possible to assess change in functioning which is important in populations living with chronic health conditions and arguably more congruent with the a priori goals of ACT [24,92].”
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“The ACT intervention has potential to improve glycaemic control due to including seven sessions covering all six core ACT processes to train psychological flexibility. These are acceptance, cognitive defusion, being present, self as a context, values and committed action, which all are further described by Hayes et al.23”
From Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for adult type 1 diabetes management: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2018) · cites this paper as [23]
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“A clinical approach that addresses some of the limitations of current parent-focused interventions is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based psychotherapeutic modality that aims to increase psychological flexibility and values-congruent behavior [26].”
From A Qualitative Study of Participant Feedback on an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Group-Based Intervention for Parents of Youth with Anxiety Disorders. (2026) · cites this paper as [26]
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“This is because ACT emphasizes an ideographic approach, focusing on the individual's unique contexts rather than adhering strictly to a standardized protocol.15,16”
From Differential associations of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes with psychological distress across racial groups. (2026) · cites this paper as [15]
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“Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based psychological treatment, which aims to facilitate psychological flexibility”
From Internet-delivered guided self-help acceptance and commitment therapy for family carers of people with dementia (iACT4CARERS): a feasibility study. (2022) · cites this paper as Hayes et al., 2013
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“ACT stems from Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and is based on the psychological flexibility model, a framework according to which the content, form and intensity of thoughts and emotions alone are not sufficient to explain behaviour, instead behaviour is determined by the function of these experiences in a particular context [12,13].”
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“through 6 inter-related facets: acceptance, cognitive defusion, mindfulness, self-as-observer, values, and committed actions.65”
From Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Primary Headache Sufferers: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Efficacy (2021) · cites this paper as [26]
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“Most evidence-based psychosocial treatments for addiction, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (Carroll 1998) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) (Hayes et al. 2013)(Brewer et al. 2009; Chiesa and Serretti 2014; Hoppes 2006; Luoma et al. 2012), incorporate the teaching of techniques for responding adaptively to stress.”
From Context and craving during stressful events in the daily lives of drug-dependent patients (2017) · cites this paper as Hayes et al. 2013
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“Its preferred strategy, however, consistent with its functional contextual framework, is slightly different, and is predominantly pragmatic rather than realist: state the goal, investigate until the goal is achieved, and hold a more inductive approach to evidence and principles.3”
From Reply to Johan W. S. Vlaeyen and to Melissa A. Day and Beverly E. Thorn (2014) · cites this paper as [3]
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“So far this approach, including a focus on specific processes from PF—processes that are distinct from those within traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy—is already yielding progress in understanding treatment mediation within the wider field of cognitive-behavioral approaches.1,3”
From Reply to Johan W. S. Vlaeyen and to Melissa A. Day and Beverly E. Thorn (2014) · cites this paper as [3]
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“Another form of CBT is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (“ACT”), [13] which has a strong scientific basis for improving chronic pain outcomes [14–17].”
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Concealment as a moderator of anticipated stigma and psychiatric symptoms
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“Grounded in the ACT model [22, 27], the intervention is designed to reduce patient fatigue interference and caregiver burden by increasing psychological flexibility (see Fig.”
InfluentialMasuda, A., Barile, J. P., Spencer, S. D., Juberg, M., Martin, T. J., & Vibell, J. (2022) · Journal of American College Health · doi:10.1080/07448481.2020.1759607 · Cited by 9
“This question is particularly important, as the CBS model emphasizes the interactional nature of mindful awareness and psychological inflexibility.(10) For example, ACT, a psychosocial intervention drawn from this model, often aims to promote a client’s mindful awareness of present moment experiences, especially in co…”
BackgroundMethodIntimacy and sexual functioning after cancer: The intersection with psychological flexibility
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Emotions, coping and psychological flexibility in earthquake survivors: a cross-sectional study
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“Hence, in Existential Positive Psychology, optimal functioning depends on the acceptance of negative emotions (Wong, 2011) and the goal of ACT is to increase the individual’s PF level (Hayes et al., 2013).”
Tunnell, N. C., Suterwala, M., & Meuret, A. E. (2019) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.10.004 · Cited by 9
Working With Values: An Overview of Approaches and Considerations in Implementation
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“ACT is a transdiagnostic approach to psychotherapy builds upon both behaviour therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundMethodKlevanger, N. E., Fimland, M. S., Johnsen, R., & Rise, M. B. (2018) · BMC Health Services Research · doi:10.1186/s12913-018-3035-8 · Cited by 9
“The model further focuses on gaining understanding through experiential exercices, such as using metaphors and stories to directly come in contact with psychological processes, and is described as having a bottom-up, inductive nature [16].”
BackgroundEffectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Resiliency and Alexithymia of Somatic Symptoms
Rostami, R., & Dasht Bozorgi, Z. (2019) · Practice in Clinical Psychology · doi:10.32598/jpcp.7.2.87 · Cited by 9
Crabtree, M. A., Hale, W. J., Meyer, E. C., Kimbrel, N. A., DeBeer, B. B., Gulliver, S. B., & Morissette, S. B. (2021) · Journal of Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1002/jclp.23244 · Cited by 9
Contreras, M., Van Hout, E., Farquhar, M., Gould, R. L., McCracken, L. M., Hornberger, M., Richmond, E., & Kishita, N. (2021) · The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist · doi:10.1017/s1754470x21000337 · Cited by 9
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“beliefs; Beck & Haigh, 2014), whereas according to a behavioral model, treatment effects are mediated by change in reinforcement contingencies (Skinner, 1953), including change in cognitive function (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundAssociations Between School-Based Substance Use Treatment and Academic Outcomes
Lintz, M. J., Sutton, B., & Thurstone, C. (2019) · Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology · doi:10.1089/cap.2018.0178 · Cited by 9
“ACT is an emerging third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy focused on improving psychological flexibility so that youth can take action consistent with what matters to them (Hayes et al. 2013).”
Marino, F., Crimi, I., Carrozza, C., Failla, C., Sfrazzetto, S. T., Chilà, P., Bianco, M., Arnao, A. A., Tartarisco, G., Cavallaro, A., et al. (2019) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02635 · Cited by 9
“Furthermore, goals and values can differ between individuals (Schwartz et al., 2012; Hayes et al., 2013; Mennin and Fresco, 2014; Hayes and Ciarrochi, 2015).”
BackgroundSingle case designs in clinical practice: A contemporary CBS perspective on why and how to
Holman, G. I., & Koerner, K. (2014) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2014.04.006 · Cited by 12
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“ACT operates via a series of interdependent principles called a hexaflex (29-31) (see Figure 1 ), which center around the construct of psychological flexibility, or the ability to endure and adapt to changes in circumstances and move toward valued actions while remaining focused on the present…”
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The contextual interview: a cross-cutting patient-interviewing approach for social context
Cahill, A., Martin, M. P., Beachy, B. R., Bauman, D. E., & Howard-Young, J. (2024) · Medical Education Online · doi:10.1080/10872981.2023.2295049 · Cited by 10
“Understanding a person’s life and social context is a foundational concept in longstanding theories and approaches to human behavior including Functional Contextualism [28], Relational Frame Theory [29], and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [30].”
BackgroundLeoni, M., Corti, S., Cavagnola, R., Healy, O., & Noone, S. J. (2016) · Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities · doi:10.1108/amhid-09-2015-0046 · Cited by 9
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Ortega-Otero, M., Montesinos, F., & Charrabe, L. (2023) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1182222 · Cited by 10
“PI refers to patterns of behavior regulated by six processes: (1) emotional avoidance, (2) cognitive fusion (CF), (3) attachment to the conceptualized self, (4) inaction, impulsivity, or avoidance persistence, (5) lack of values clarity, and (6) loss of flexible contact with the present (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundGhasemi, N., Kalantari, M., Asghari, K., & Molavi, H. (2014) · Cited by 7
Marcowski, P., Białaszek, W., Dudek, J. E., & Ostaszewski, P. (2017) · Polish Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1515/ppb-2017-0051 · Cited by 14
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“These processes are overlapping and interrelated and can be introduced in different orders [10-12].”
BackgroundEffects of Acceptance and Commitment Training on Treatment Integrity Amongst Behavioral Technicians
Ragulan, S., Bertoli, E., Shinall, J. A., & Kahng, S. (2022) · Behavior Modification · doi:10.1177/01454455221137327 · Cited by 8
“This allows individuals to encounter and connect the six core processes in relation to their own experiences (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundGarner, E. V., Golijani-Moghaddam, N., & Sabin-Farrell, R. (2023) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.02.005 · Cited by 8
Associations between psychological flexibility and daily functioning in endometriosis-related pain
Sundström, F., Lavefjord, A., Buhrman, M., & McCracken, L. M. (2023) · Scandinavian Journal of Pain · doi:10.1515/sjpain-2022-0157 · Cited by 12
Doing more, feeling better: A behavioural approach to helping a woman overcome low mood and anxiety
Stuart, S., Graham, C. D., & Butler, S. B. (2014) · British Journal of Learning Disabilities · doi:10.1111/bld.12101 · Cited by 8
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“Values concern the ideals we have and how we want to live; (2) Committed action: specific and concrete action plans guided by one's values, but which also takes into account and anticipate barriers along the way; (3) Acceptance: openness to experience, urges, emotions, and thoughts allowing them to come and go without…”
BackgroundThe Mapping of Contingencies in Mental Models Found in Organizations
Goltz, S. M., & Slade, D. (2016) · Journal of Organizational Behavior Management · doi:10.1080/01608061.2016.1153015 · Cited by 8
“ACT also emphasizes the identification of values and selecting behavior based on those values (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundInfluentialUnderstanding and Enhancing Psychological Acceptance
Herbert, J. D., & Brandsma, L. L. (2015) · Sage eBooks · doi:10.4135/9781483385822.n5 · Cited by 8
“…two dozen formal mediational studies of variables specified by the ACT model (psychological acceptance, defusion, and values), and the results have been surprisingly consistent in supporting the meditational effects of these factors across a wide range of populations (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialAcceptance of shame and embarrassment: Scale development and initial findings in a clinical sample
Sedighimornani, N., Rimes, K. A., Verplanken, B., & Gauntlett‐Gilbert, J. (2019) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.01.001 · Cited by 8
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González-Prendes, A. A., Hicks, L. M., Matthews, T., & Domke, S. (2012) · doi:10.1093/obo/9780195389678-0149 · Cited by 9
Rumiación y fusión cognitiva en el cuidado familiar de personas con demencia
Romero-Moreno, R., Márquez-González, M., Losada, A., Fernández-Fernández, V., & Nogales-González, C. (2015) · Revista Espanola de Geriatria y Gerontologia · doi:10.1016/j.regg.2015.02.007 · Cited by 7
“…opuesto y el proceso contrario de la fusión cognitiva y consiste en observar los pensamientos como eventos mentales pasajeros, a través de la habilidad de tomar perspectiva del propio pensamiento o distan-ciarse del mismo y ser capaz de actuar eficazmente en presencia de pensamientos molestos 15 .”
Herbert, J. D., Gershkovich, M., & Forman, E. M. (2014) · The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Social Anxiety Disorder · doi:10.1002/9781118653920.ch27 · Cited by 7
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Apolinário-Hagen, J., Drüge, M., Guthardt, L., & Haller, E. (2024) · Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology · doi:10.1007/978-981-97-4402-2_12 · Cited by 6
Bibliometric Mapping of Psychological Flexibility Research: Trends and Future Directions
Wider, W., Pang, N. T. P., Lin, J., Fauzi, M. A., Jiang, L., & Tanucan, J. C. M. (2024) · Perceptual and Motor Skills · doi:10.1177/00315125241253946 · Cited by 7
“Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT; Hayes & Lillis, 2012) is a contextual approach that emphasizes psychological fl exibility, and evidence of its ef fi cacy is growing (Hayes et al., 2011a, 2013).”
The mindful resiliency in recovery model: empowering the transcendence of stigma
Moniz-Lewis, D. I. K. (2024) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1460329 · Cited by 10
The Impact of Chatbots on Adolescent Mental Health Development: A Comprehensive Literature Review
Wu, Y., Wu, T., Zhu, K., Liu, X., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Shi, R., Xiong, J., Xing, X., Lv, Y., et al. (2026) · Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare · doi:10.2147/jmdh.s579872 · Cited by 9
Shame, Self-Compassion, and Valued Living Among Survivors of Interpersonal Violence
Cabrera, K. B., Benz, M. B., Kline, N. K., & Reed, K. M. P. (2021) · Mindfulness · doi:10.1007/s12671-021-01676-8 · Cited by 11
Recommendations when Designing to Address Procrastination: A Psychological Perspective
Andreae, H., Durrant, A. C., & Kyffin, S. (2019) · doi:10.21428/5395bc37.06a2ebf3 · Cited by 8
“Psychologists also employ cognitive strategies to increase self-efficacy, reduce negative thought cycles, self-handicapping, and irrational beliefs [19], [22].”
BackgroundBuilding a Bridge Between Spirituality/Religion with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Yavuz, O. (2022) · Spiritual Psychology and Counseling · doi:10.37898/spc.2022.7.2.174 · Cited by 7
Psychological flexibility, non-attachment, and materialism
Watson, D., & Howell, A. J. (2022) · Personality and Individual Differences · doi:10.1016/j.paid.2022.111965 · Cited by 11
Van Hout, E., Contreras, M. L., Mioshi, E., & Kishita, N. (2023) · Journal of Applied Gerontology · doi:10.1177/07334648231156858 · Cited by 7
“Cognitive fusion refers to our tendency to become entangled with thoughts and inability to step back from such restricting beliefs (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundInfluentialPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Evolution of Views
Kryukov, E. V., Shamrey, V. K., Марченко, А. А., Lobachev, A. V., Khabarov, I. Y., & Kolodin, S. N. (2023) · Psikhiatriya · doi:10.30629/2618-6667-2023-21-4-57-71 · Cited by 9
Muñoz, M. D. L. F. R., Radoš, S. N., Uka, A., Marques, M., Maia, B., Matos, M., Branquinho, M., Aydın, R., Mahmoodi, V., Chrzan‐Dętkoś, M., et al. (2023) · Midwifery · doi:10.1016/j.midw.2023.103865 · Cited by 9
The Interplay of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies in College Students
Li, Y., Yu, Y., Duan, Y., Shao, Y., & Zhu, L. (2024) · Cognitive Therapy and Research · doi:10.1007/s10608-024-10527-4 · Cited by 8
“In particular, valued living refers to a way of helping individuals approach things that matter to them, even in the face of distressing emotions (Hayes et al., 2013).”
Beck, A. K., Baker, A., Jones, S. H., Lobban, F. A., KAY‐LAMBKIN, F. J., Attia, J., & Banfield, M. (2018) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019203 · Cited by 8
“Lack of values clarity (uncertainty about personally held values) and lack of awareness (difficulty noticing actions that are consistent with personally held values) represent two key factors that can undermine valued action.(31) Accordingly, as per our first two treatment objectives, these represent key targets of th…”
BackgroundTaghvaei, D., Jahangiri, M. M., & Zarebidaki, Z. (2019) · doi:10.30699/ijhehp.7.2.143 · Cited by 7
Holderle, K. E., Poleshuck, E. L., Rosenberg, T., & Pulcino, T. L. (2021) · Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings · doi:10.1007/s10880-021-09798-w · Cited by 7
Zarate‐Guerrero, S., Duran, J. M., & Naismith, I. (2022) · Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · doi:10.1002/cpp.2704 · Cited by 11
Kang, S., Waters, A. J., & Bryan, C. J. (2022) · Military Psychology · doi:10.1080/08995605.2022.2058301 · Cited by 9
“situation affords, persisting or changing in behavior in the service of chosen values” (Hayes et al., 2013), and a review article documents the positive impact of psy-”
BackgroundMoving From Moral Distress to Moral Resilience Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Nishikawara, R. K., & Maynes, T. D. (2023) · Canadian Journal of Career Development · doi:10.53379/cjcd.2023.350 · Cited by 7
Yao, X., Chan, K. L., Chen, S., & Gao, S. (2024) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-024-05628-y · Cited by 7
“ACT is one of the most influential modes of clinical behavior analysis, and focuses on cognitive and behavioral intervention to interpret human action, increase well-being, and foster PF (Bond et al., 2006; Hayes et al., 2004, 2013).”
Cuneo, J. G., Godfrey, K. M., Wright, L. J., Backhaus, A. L., Miggantz, E., & Afari, N. (2018) · Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy · doi:10.1891/0889-8391.32.3.155 · Cited by 5
Pathways: An Innovation in the Delivery of College Counseling Services
Mull, A. A., Cleveland, C., Robinette, R., & Dixon, L. H. (2018) · Journal of College Student Psychotherapy · doi:10.1080/87568225.2018.1523698 · Cited by 7
“emotions may be a strong predictor of effectiveness of treatment and symptom reduction (Hayes et al., 2013).”
Backgroundامیریان, ک., Mami, S., Ahmadi, V., & Mohammadzadeh, J. (2018) · Journal of Education and Community Health · doi:10.21859/jech.5.2.53 · Cited by 8
Dindo, L. N., Brandt, C. P., & Fiedorowicz, J. G. (2019) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.06.001 · Cited by 8
Older persons’ experiences of Reflective STRENGTH‐Giving Dialogues – ‘It's a push to move forward’
Åberg, C., Berglund, M., Hällgren, J., & Gillsjö, C. (2020) · Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences · doi:10.1111/scs.12892 · Cited by 7
Anger, Fear, and Sadness: How Emotions Could Help Us End a Pandemic of Racism
Catagnus, R. M., Griffith, A. K., & Umphrey, B. (2021) · Behavior Analysis in Practice · doi:10.1007/s40617-021-00581-9 · Cited by 7
Yordanova, S. D., & Dineva, S. Y. (2022) · Advances in logistics, operations, and management science book series · doi:10.4018/978-1-6684-2478-0.ch006 · Cited by 7
A Scoping Review of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Higher Education
Caimano, S., Malkin, A., Monroy, P., Horoky, D., & Kum, J. J. Y. (2024) · The Psychological Record · doi:10.1007/s40732-024-00586-0 · Cited by 6
“Engaging in this type of flexible relating to private events allows people to willingly experience difficulties and continue to live fulfilling lives (Harris, 2006; Hayes et al., 2013).”
Capel, L. K., Zurita Ona, P., Moller, C., & Twohig, M. P. (2023) · Cognitive and Behavioral Practice · doi:10.1016/j.cbpra.2022.01.004 · Cited by 6
“Psychological inflexibility is high in those with OCD and mediates the presence of OCD (Bluett et al., 2014; Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundDepartment of Psychology and Exceptional Child Education, F. O. B. S., Mirmohammadi, F., Pourmohamadreza-Tajrishi, M., Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Research Center, D. O. P. A. E. O. E. C., Dolatshahi, B., Department of Clinical Psychology, F. O. B. S., Bakhshi, E., & Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, F. O. R. S. (2022) · Journal of Rehabilitation · doi:10.32598/rj.22.4.3261.1 · Cited by 6
Santiago-Torres, M., Mull, K. E., Sullivan, B. M., & Bricker, J. B. (2024) · Substance Use & Misuse · doi:10.1080/10826084.2023.2293732 · Cited by 5
“ACT offers a unique approach by targeting these physical cravings, emotions, and thoughts related to nicotine dependence (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundSánchez Escamilla, F., Redondo Delgado, M., Herrero, L., & Pérez Nieto, M. Á. (2024) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-023-05001-5 · Cited by 6
“On the other hand, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) (Hayes et al., 1999) has been considered an exposure-based method in the sense that “it gives people the opportunity to practice experiencing anxiety without also struggling with fear” (Hayes, 1987; p. 365).”
InfluentialFrydendal, D. H., Rask, C. U., Jensen, J. S., Wellnitz, K. B., & Frostholm, L. (2023) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.03.011 · Cited by 6
Dindo, L., Fiedorowicz, J. G., Boykin, D. M., Wooldridge, N., Myers, J., Ajibewa, T., Stroud, A., Kuwaye, D., Liu, Z., & Pierce, G. L. (2021) · Annals of Clinical Psychiatry · doi:10.12788/acp.0046 · Cited by 5
“27 Understanding the specific mechanisms or processes that mediate clinical improvement in psychiatric symptoms allows for optimizing interventions by refining and emphasizing components responsible for change.”
Mosher, C. E., Krueger, E., Hirsh, A. T., Miller, K. D., Ballinger, T. J., Storniolo, A. M., Schneider, B. P., Newton, E. V., Champion, V. L., & Johns, S. A. (2020) · Contemporary Clinical Trials · doi:10.1016/j.cct.2020.106168 · Cited by 6
“, identifying personal values such as family or work and taking action steps consistent with these values) [15].”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluentialDutta, T., Chhajer, R., Nag, S., & Dhir, S. (2023) · IIMB Management Review · doi:10.1016/j.iimb.2023.07.004 · Cited by 9
Deighan, M. T., Simpson, D., Brigden, A., & Cater, K. F. (2024) · BMC Digital Health · doi:10.1186/s44247-024-00071-2 · Cited by 9
“Perhaps a less researched area is the use of VR to deliver Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy rooted in both cognitive behavioural therapy and traditional behaviour therapy [65].”
BackgroundZhang, J., & Wang, E. (2025) · BMC Psychology · doi:10.1186/s40359-025-02986-5 · Cited by 6
“Future interventions could prioritize the reduction of experiential avoidance through evidence-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which specifically targets decreasing experiential avoidance and enhancing psychological flexibility [30].”
Li, Y., Duan, R., Tang, Y., & Xie, X. (2025) · Journal of Youth and Adolescence · doi:10.1007/s10964-025-02262-0 · Cited by 8
“In contrast, psychological inflexibility is a cognitive, emotional, and behavioral characteristic that limits a person’s capacity to pick a response that accords with their core values (Hayes et al., 2013).”
Trindade, I. A., Pinto, H., Gomes, A. A., Knowles, S. R., & Ferreira, N. B. (2021) · Current Psychology · doi:10.1007/s12144-021-02219-z · Cited by 6
“, 1999), is a contextual-based psychological approach, which aims to reduce the behavioural and functional impact of internal experiences (such as pain or thoughts related to one’s illness that might indeed be realistic and/or normative to experience) by promoting psychological flexibility rather than changing their c…”
BackgroundFaustino, B., Vasco, A. B., Haaga, D. A. F., Chamberlain, J. M., Farinha‐Fernandes, A., & Delgado, J. (2023) · Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy · doi:10.1007/s10942-022-00492-w · Cited by 6
“Probably, individuals with lower levels of unconditional self-acceptance may be more prone to psychopathological symptoms, due to avoidance of emotional processing, which may be associated with psychological inflexibility and emotion regulation difficulties (Faustino, 2021; Hayes et al., 2013).”
Sasaki, N., Imamura, K., Nishi, D., Watanabe, K., Asaoka, H., Sekiya, Y., Tsuno, K., Kobayashi, Y., Obikane, E., & Kawakami, N. (2023) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2023.03.002 · Cited by 11
Robinson, A., Boos, D. D., & Moghaddam, N. G. (2023) · Counselling and Psychotherapy Research · doi:10.1002/capr.12646 · Cited by 6
Increasing Mental Disorders or Social Psychiatrization: Excluding Options?
Félix Cova, S., Fernández, D., & Inostroza, C. (2023) · Human Arenas · doi:10.1007/s42087-023-00357-3 · Cited by 5
“Paradoxically, attempting to deny or avoid suffering has been identified as one of the factors accentuating and perpetuating emotional problems (Hayes et al., 2013).”
Merluzzi, T. V., Salamanca‐Balen, N., Philip, E. J., Salsman, J. M., & Chirico, A. (2024) · Cancers · doi:10.3390/cancers16020342 · Cited by 6
“…may be the contemporary extension of letting go [34] in interventions for serious health problems, and some forms of contemporary therapy such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy embody a realistic engagement in life by not being overwhelmed by negative emotions and challenging situations [35].”
BackgroundIs pain ever acceptable? A qualitative exploration concerning adult perceptions of chronic pain
Kahtan, H., Jordan, A. L., & Forget, P. (2024) · European Journal of Pain · doi:10.1002/ejp.2255 · Cited by 8
“The goal is to foster psychological flexibility, enabling individuals to respond more effectively to life's obstacles (Hayes et al., 2013).”
Evidências de Validade da Escala de Flexibilidade Psicológica no Trabalho em Amostras Brasileiras
Pinto, V. N., Ferreira, M. C., & Valentini, F. (2015) · Psico · doi:10.15448/1980-8623.2015.3.18679 · Cited by 7
“Tomados em conjunto, tais processos objetivam, em última análise, o contato do indivíduo com o momento presente como uma pessoa consciente, que persiste ou muda seu comportamento de acordo com os valores por ela adotados (Hayes et al., 2013).”
BackgroundChinh, K., Mosher, C. E., Brown, L. F., Beck‐Coon, K., Kroenke, K., & Johns, S. A. (2020) · Mindfulness · doi:10.1007/s12671-019-01299-0 · Cited by 6
LaLonde, L., Good, J., Orkopoulou, E., Vriesman, M., & Maragakis, A. (2022) · Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · doi:10.1016/j.jcbs.2022.01.001 · Cited by 6
Musa, N., Pang, N. T. P., Kamu, A., Ho, C. M., Waters, C., Berrett, J., Moghaddam, N., & Wider, W. (2022) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph19159624 · Cited by 6
“ACT addresses inefficient and unhelpful behaviour that avoids internal events and introduces mindfulness and acceptance-based techniques to support behaviour change and minimize psychological suffering [15,16].”
BackgroundSantiago‐Torres, M., Kwon, D. M., Mull, K. E., Sullivan, B. M., Ahluwalia, J. S., Alexander, A. C., Nollen, N. L., & Bricker, J. B. (2022) · Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities · doi:10.1007/s40615-022-01458-5 · Cited by 6
“…goal of ACT-based strategies for smoking cessation is to foster a willingness to tolerate potentially aversive experiences while simultaneously promoting smoke-free days consistent with desired goals (i.e., quitting smoking) and values (e.g., quitting to improve health, quit-ting for family) [28].”
BackgroundShea, P., Johnson, P., & Togade, D. (2022) · Behavior Analysis in Practice · doi:10.1007/s40617-022-00767-9 · Cited by 7
Cognitive effects of English brush handwriting: the case of visual–spatial aptitude
Kao, H. S. R., Lui, W. S., Guan, M., et al. (2012) · Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy · doi:10.1080/21507686.2012.703443 · Cited by 6
“We are currently looking into integrating calligraphy therapy with the latest mainstream practice of the mindfulness doctrine, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and the Relational Frame Therapy (Hayes, 2004, Hayes et al., 2011) for therapy and intervention.”
MethodGratitude, Spirituality and Meaning: Their Clinical Implications
Ruini, C. (2017) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52112-1_8 · Cited by 6
Self-Care, Resilience, and Work-Life Balance
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Metadata
- Authors
- Hayes, S. C., Levin, M. E., Plumb-Vilardaga, J., Villatte, J. L., & Pistorello, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Nevada, Reno (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hayes, Steven C.
- Venue
- Behavior Therapy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-06
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 180-198
- ISSN
- 0005-7894 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3635495
- OpenAlex
- W2056853212
- Cited by
- 1,120
- References
- 130
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- FWCI
- 3.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Behavior Therapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH096341)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- acceptance and commitment therapy, contextual behavioral science, cognitive behavioral therapy, theory development, philosophy of psychology, mediating and moderating effects
- MeSH terms
- Behavior, Behavior Therapy, Humans, Object Attachment, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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