Comparison of the Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy on improvement of symptoms of patients with general anxiety disorder
Background and Objective: General anxiety disorder (GAD) is the most prevalent chronic anxiety disorders in clinical centers and general population. There are several treatment methods for this disorder that have different challenges ,for example cognitive-behavior therapy is selective treatment for anxiety disorders but it is not improvement and has not patients efficiency in general anxiety disorder. Furthermore, study on the effectiveness of new treatment called third wave that include behavioral and cognitive interventions (known as post modernism), seem necessary in treatment of general anxiety disorder.
ACT
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.
Resources for Learning ACT
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About ACT
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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