ACT
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Developed within a coherent theoretical and philosophical framework, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility means contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being, and based on what the situation affords, changing or persisting in behavior in the service of chosen values.
Based on Relational Frame Theory, ACT illuminates the ways that language entangles clients into futile attempts to wage war against their own inner lives. Through metaphor, paradox, and experiential exercises clients learn how to make healthy contact with thoughts, feelings, memories, and physical sensations that have been feared and avoided. Clients gain the skills to recontextualize and accept these private events, develop greater clarity about personal values, and commit to needed behavior change.
Click on a link below or to the left to learn more about ACT, or click on the emailing lists phrase in this sentence to join any of several email listserves for ACT professionals and students, RFT professionals and students, members of the public interested in ACT, or ACT/RFT list serves in various countries or languages (Sweden, German, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Italy, Australia/New Zealand, and others).
If you are a member of the public, you are welcome to look around or even to join our group to get full access to videos, attachments, publications, etc. You can find research here, find ACT therapists, link to an ACT listserv for the public, and so on.
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- ACT With Anxiety(Event)(Now)
- ACT introductiecursus Amersfoort/Utrecht - Netherlands(Event)(Now)
- ACT Introduction with DJ Moran in Toronto - ONTABA Conference(Event)(20 hours)
- Cycle de Formation ACT Lyon, France Nov 2008-Mars 2009(Event)(13 days)
- Burlington, VT--ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Powerful Life Change(Event)(14 days)
- Acceptance & Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Steve Hayes - Oregon(Event)(14 days)
- ACT in ITALY Workshop Acceptance and Commitment Therapy nella pratica clinica: Acceptance e Defusion(Event)(14 days)
- Pittsburgh, PA - Introduction to ACT and ACT Case Conceptualization with DJ Moran(Event)(15 days)
- ACT Curso Avanzado, Madrid, Spain(Event)(15 days)
- Portland, ME--ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Powerful Life Change(Event)(17 days)
- Bangor, ME--ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Powerful Life Change(Event)(18 days)
- Manchester, NH--ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Powerful Life Change(Event)(19 days)
- Brief Therapy Conference - San Diego(Event)(20 days)
- Mini-atelier ACT - AFTCC (mini-workshop Paris)(Event)(21 days)
- Cycle de Formation ACT Lyon, France Nov 2008-Mars 2009(Event)(27 days)
- 3-Day Eugene Intro and Skill Building with Kelly Wilson(Event)(49 days)
- Lancaster, PA--ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Powerful Life Change(Event)(54 days)
- King of Prussia, PA--ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Powerful Life Change(Event)(55 days)
- Cycle de Formation ACT Lyon, France Nov 2008-Mars 2009(Event)(55 days)
- Cherry Hill, NJ--ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Powerful Life Change(Event)(56 days)
- Cycle de Formation ACT Lyon, France Nov 2008-Mars 2009(Event)(69 days)
- Vervolgcursus Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Blooming, Bergen (NH)(Event)(70 days)
- ACT Training at the Albert Ellis Institute, NYC with DJ Moran(Event)(71 days)
- Cycle de Formation ACT Lyon, France Nov 2008-Mars 2009(Event)(97 days)
- Introductiecursus Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Bergen, Holland(Event)(98 days)
- Cycle de Formation ACT Lyon, France Nov 2008-Mars 2009(Event)(111 days)
- Introductiecursus Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Bergen, Holland(Event)(126 days)
- ACT introductiecursus Utrecht - Netherlands(Event)(189 days)
