Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Last updated: November 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:

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your estimate of it - and this you have the power to revoke at any moment" (Marcus Aurelius)

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...there was a group of elite bounty hunters who lived and died by their code. A code rooted in a commitment to each other, and their way of life. These are the Mandalorians and “this is the way.” 

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