Acceptance and commitment therapy: Model, processes and outcomes
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Hayes, Steven C.
Luoma, Jason B.
Bond, Frank W.
Masuda, Akihiko
Lillis, J.
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2006
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acceptance , acceptance and commitment therapy , clinical behavior analysis , contextualism , mediational analysis , mindfulness , relational frame theory , third generation cbt
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The present article presents and reviews the model of psychopathology and treatment underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is unusual in that it is linked to a comprehensive active basic research program on the nature of human language and cognition (Relational Frame Theory), echoing back to an earlier era of behavior therapy in which clinical treatments were consciously based on basic behavioral principles. The evidence from correlational, component, process of change, and outcome comparisons relevant to the model are broadly supportive, but the literature is not mature and many questions have not yet been examined. What evidence is available suggests that ACT works through different processes than active treatment comparisons, including traditional Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT). There are not enough well-controlled studies to conclude that ACT is generally more effective than other active treatments across the range of problems examined, but so far the data are promising. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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0005-7967