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Acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness for chronic pain: Model, process, and progress.
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Over 30 years ago, treatments based broadly within cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) began a rise in prominence that eventually culminated in their widespread adoption in chronic pain treatment settings. Research into CBT has proliferated and continues today, addressing questions very similar to those addressed at the start of this enterprise. However, just as it is designed to do, the process of conducting research and analyzing evidence reveals gaps in our understanding of and shortcomings within this treatment approach. A need for development seems clear. This article reviews the progress of CBT in the treatment of chronic pain and the challenges now faced by researchers and clinicians interested in meeting this need for development. It then focuses in greater detail on areas of development within CBT, namely acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and mindfulness-based approaches, areas that may hold potential for future progress. Three specific recommendations are offered here to achieve this progress.
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“Systematic reviews that qualitatively assess the efficacy of ACT, MBSR and MBCT generally find beneficial effects in chronic pain conditions (Lakhan & Schofield, 2013; McCracken & Vowles, 2014).”
From Acceptance- and mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of chronic pain: a meta-analytic review (2016) · cites this paper as McCracken & Vowles, 2014
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“ACT has shown effectiveness for functional and quality of life improvements when interventions directly targeting nociceptive pain achieve limited success [30, 31].”
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“measurements of symptom acceptance have recently been preferred by researchers over intensity scales (Kerns et al., 2011; McCracken and Morley, 2014; McCracken and Vowles, 2014; Du et al., 2021).”
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“Contextual behavioral therapies -such as those based on acceptance, commitment, and mindfulness -are considered an improvement over the traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy model for pain management (McCracken & Vowles, 2014).”
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“The American Psychological Association (APA) considers ACT as an evidence-based treatment [87].”
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“It is considered a third-wave of CBT and can be used alongside more traditional CBT [41–43].”
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“A second dimension has focused on how “resilience factors”, such as pain acceptance, positive affect, and adaptive pain beliefs relieve pain-related distress and improve functioning and social integration.145–147”
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“The notion of enabling patients to manage their chronic pain through such approaches as mindfulness meditation training (and therapies that incorporate mindfulness) is becoming increasingly popular (McCracken & Vowles, 2014, this issue).”
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“Behavioral interventions have a long history of success for the treatment of chronic pain26.”
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“Several studies provide data supporting the use of ACT for patients with chronic pain (Aytur et al., 2021;Hann & McCracken, 2014;McCracken & Vowles, 2014;Rickardsson et al., 2021;Yang & McCracken, 2014).”
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“Studies indicate that cognitive fusion is a significant predictor of psychological distress and QoL in a range of health conditions including multiple sclerosis (Ferenbach, 2011), chronic pain (McCracken & Vowles, 2014) and cancer (Gillanders et al., 2015).”
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“An early evaluation of the acceptability of a complex intervention is imperative, as it can highlight aspects of the interventions that can be modified before a trial [32,33].”
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“Multiple published studies have suggested that a greater degree of perceived daily racial discrimination is associated with elevated rates of chronic pain and enhanced sensitivity to pain in the laboratory among samples of African-American participants 252–254.”
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“Several studies report a high value for ACT in the management of chronic pain when compared with standard pharmacological treatment alone [13-16].”
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“Both types of interventions can improve a person’s quality of life, pain acceptance, functioning, and self-efficacy while also having the potential to reduce pain, depressive symptoms, and distress [10-18].”
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- McCracken, L. M., & Vowles, K. E.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- Venue
- American Psychologist
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 178-187
- ISSN
- 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-990X
- OpenAlex
- W2091828452
- Semantic Scholar
- 3841c62426b1eb3ad98fb79319e28c085dd5e0b0
- Cited by
- 627
- References
- 94
- Citations by year
- 2026: 38 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 53 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 68 · 2020: 55 · 2019: 61 · 2018: 64 · 2017: 49 · 2016: 54 · 2015: 40 · 2014: 15
- FWCI
- 62.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- pure.qub.ac.uk
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- American Psychologist (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- acceptance and commitment therapy, chronic pain, cognitive behavioral therapy, pain management, treatment development
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Models, Psychological, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Treatment Outcome, Chronic Pain, Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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