Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Rewire Your Inner Mind:

A Playful Path to Healing with IFS and ACT for Young ACA Souls

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Reclaiming the Self:  An Integrated ACT & IFS Approach for Adult Children of Alcoholics

Last updated: August 2025

These are a beginning list of process studies in ACT that are not based on self-report instruments per se: interview studies, analyses of transcripts, and the like. If you see find additional ones let ACBS staff know and ask them to add the reference to this page: [email protected]

Developed within a coherent theoretical and philosophical framework, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility.

Here is a list of resources for those seeking ACT training or who want more direction in what to do next in terms of learning ACT.

There are two basic ways to begin learning about ACT:
Reading up on it your own
Seeking out a community in which to network and broaden and deepen your knowledge of ACT

On Your Own:

The core conception of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) or (as it is usual called outside of a therapy context, Acceptance and Commitment Training ...  also "ACT") is that psychological suffering and a failure to prosper psychologically is usually caused by the interface between the evolutionarily more recent processes of human language and cognition, and more ancient sources of control of human behavior, particular those based on

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