Muto, T. & Mitamura, T. (2011). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a transdiagnostic approach: Toward shifting to a "concurrent-habits" paradigm. Japanese Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine, 51(12), 1105-1110.
The purpose of the present article was to describe the context, content, and some implications of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which is one of the "third-wave" of cognitive and behavioral therapies (CBT). This paper was composed of 1) why "mindfulness and acceptance" have been included into the tradition of CBT, from a view point from Clinical Behavior Analysis, 2) what is the ACT treatment model, 3) how is the cutting-edge empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of ACT, and 4) what are implications of ACT for "next-waves" of cognitive and behavioral therapies. In particular, ACT suggests sifting the DSM-based treatmentmodel to a transdiagnostic "concurrent habits" treatment model.