Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Towards a unified model of behavior change
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Authors
Hayes, Steven C.
Issue Date
2018
Type
Article
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Well-established research programs should be evaluated relative to progress toward their stated purposes. The 35-year old program of development of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; said as a word, not initials) has followed an unusually lengthy strategy that was dictated by its ambitious goal: the creation of a unified process-based model of how to alleviate human psychological problems and promote behavioral effectiveness1