Treatments · Therapies
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science on a therapy organized around values and psychological flexibility rather than symptom reduction.
Association for Contextual Behavioral Science7 min read
ACT (pronounced as a word, not letters) treats psychological suffering less as a problem to eliminate and more as a signal about what matters. ACBS's public page walks through the six core processes — defusion, acceptance, present-moment contact, self-as-context, values, and committed action — without flattening them into platitudes.
A useful counterpoint to symptom-focused approaches when 'getting rid of' the difficult thoughts hasn't worked.
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