Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Hexagon of Psychological Flexibility N.B.
Slides taken, with thanks, from a presentation by
Steven Hayes at AACBT National Conference, 14/6/04
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There are six essential sub-processes in ACT
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Acceptance and Mindfulness Processes
You can chunk them into two larger groups
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Commitment and Behavior Change Processes
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Thus the name Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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The Essence of ACT Work
and what it is, is the answer to this central ...
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ACT Question
at this time, in this situation?
are you willing to have that stuff, fully and
without defense
of your chosen values
If the answer is yes, thats
AND do what takes you in the direction
as it is, and not as what it says it is,
Given a distinction between you and the stuff you
are struggling with and trying to change
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Psychological Flexibility

• Psychological flexibility is 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.