Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) talks about developing and
increasing Psychological Flexibility.
We will work together to
increase psychological flexibility, which can reduce symptoms and help you live a full, rich and meaningful life.»
ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to
increase psychological flexibility and reduce symptoms such as anxiety and depression.
Implications of the present research suggest that strategies to
increase psychological flexibility may help individuals cope with everyday experiences of ostracism.
ACT aims to help people clarify their personal values and to take action on them, and
increase psychological flexibility.
In this context, the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT; an experiential acceptance - based behavior therapy) that targets experiential avoidance and
increases psychological flexibility is discussed.
Program Goals Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to
increase psychological flexibility and to decrease experiential avoidance.
«a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to
increase psychological flexibility.»
The general goal of ACT is to
increase psychological flexibility — the ability to contact the present moment more fully as a conscious human being, and to change or persist in behavior when doing so serves valued ends.
Not exact matches
Contrary to expectation, only the control group demonstrated significant
increases in
psychological flexibility and significant reductions in PTSD symptoms.
Among its many beneficial effects, yoga has been shown to
increase strength,
flexibility, and balance; enhance immune function; lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels; and improve
psychological well - being.
Increased symptom severity was associated with greater dysfunction in terms of family cohesion and flexibility (β coefficient − 0.13; 95 % CI − 0.23, − 0.03), increased caregivers» EE levels on the form of emotional overinvolvement (β coefficient 1.03; 95 % CI 0.02, 2.03), and psychological distress (β coefficient 3.37; 95 % CI 1.2
Increased symptom severity was associated with greater dysfunction in terms of family cohesion and
flexibility (β coefficient − 0.13; 95 % CI − 0.23, − 0.03),
increased caregivers» EE levels on the form of emotional overinvolvement (β coefficient 1.03; 95 % CI 0.02, 2.03), and psychological distress (β coefficient 3.37; 95 % CI 1.2
increased caregivers» EE levels on the form of emotional overinvolvement (β coefficient 1.03; 95 % CI 0.02, 2.03), and
psychological distress (β coefficient 3.37; 95 % CI 1.29, 5.45).
Recent research has documented the success of mindfulness training (Galhardo et al., 2013) and acceptance and commitment therapy (Peterson and Eifert, 2011) for infertile couples, as both are interventions to
increase openness to and acceptance of emotions, which in turn appears to promote
psychological flexibility and health (Kashdan and Rottenberg, 2010).