Acceptance and commitment therapy teaches mindfulness skills within the context of values and committed action. Russ Harris gives a brief introduction
From the Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2009.
Imagine a therapy so hard to classify that it has been described as an ‘existential-humanistic cognitive behaviour therapy’.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, is an innovative and creative mindfulness-based therapy, firmly based in the tradition of empirical science, yet with a major emphasis on values, acceptance, compassion and living in the present moment.
Created in the early 1980s by US psychologist Steven C Hayes, ACT […]