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This chapter considers what is meant by contextual CBTs. A growing number of scholars, particularly those working within the field known as contextual behavioral science (CBS), use this term to describe these novel mindfulness and acceptance-oriented models of CBT. The chapter shows that the self-conscious application of psychological principles to the theorist/clinician is neither common across all acceptance-based CBTs nor clearly demarcates them from traditional models of CBT. Philosophical assumptions also shape how theoretical terms and issues are conceptualized, and here too lack of clarity can lead to confusion. Of the various models of CBT, both traditional and contextual, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has delved most deeply into philosophical waters. The motivations for attempting to define contextual CBTs can be grouped into two broad categories, namely scientific and political.