The Cat and the Cloud: ACT for LGBT Locus of Control, Responsibility, and Acceptance
Abstract
Advocating acceptance, committed action, and value-guided behavior over experiential avoidance, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) may aid lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) clients affected by hetero/homonormative social pressure. By conceptualizing LGBT paradigms of internal/external control/responsibility (IC-IR; EC-IR; IC-ER; EC-IR), ACT may be adapted to a myriad of multicultural worldviews. This article presents locus of acceptance as the attributed worth of internal/external cues perceived necessary by the client to achieve self-acceptance. Recognizing visibility and isolation as recurrent LGBT issues, locus of acceptances balances identity as individual (internal acceptance) with identity as community (external acceptance).
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Avoidance is a coping strategy often used by LGBTQ+ people to deal with adverse events.
“While avoidance is a coping strategy often used by LGBTQ+ people to deal with adverse events [16], there is also evidence to suggest that this emotional regulation strategy is associated with poor mental health [17].”
From An Internet-Based Intervention to Increase the Ability of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People to Cope With Adverse Events: Single-Group Feasibility Study (2024) · cites this paper as [16]
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- Authors
- Stitt, A. L.
- Affiliations
- University of Hawaii at Hilo (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stitt, Alexander L.
- Venue
- Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 282-297
- ISSN
- 1553-8605 (ISSN-L)
- 1553-8338
- OpenAlex
- W1988627399
- Cited by
- 23
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 2.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of LGBTQ Issues in Counseling (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Keywords
- acceptance and commitment therapy, LGBT clients, locus of control, locus of responsibility, self-acceptance, heteronormativity, homonormativity, social pressure, visibility, isolation, multicultural counseling
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