Group CBT versus MBSR for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial
Objective: The goal of this study was to investigate treatment outcome and mediators of cognitive–behavioral group therapy (CBGT) versus mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) versus waitlist (WL) in patients with generalized social anxiety disorder (SAD).
Cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) versus acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for dementia family caregivers with significant depressive symptoms: Results of a randomized clinical trial
Objective: The differential efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) for dementia family caregivers’ is analyzed through a randomized controlled trial. Method: Participants were 135 caregivers with high depressive symptomatology who were randomly allocated to the intervention conditions or a control group (CG).
Pilot randomized trial of telephone-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for smoking cessation
OBJECTIVE:
Pilot randomized trial of telephone-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) versus Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for smoking cessation.
METHOD:
Randomized clinical trial of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) versus acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for mixed anxiety disorders
Objective: Randomized comparisons of acceptance-based treatments with traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders are lacking. To address this gap, we compared acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to CBT for heterogeneous anxiety disorders.
Mindfulness and Acceptance for Addictive Behaviors: Applying Contextual CBT to Substance Abuse and Behavioral Addictions
As a clinician or research in the field of mental health or addictions, this book will offer you powerful insight into how acceptance and mindfulness-based interventions are being successfully used to treat a variety of addictive behaiviors, ranging from substance abuse to gambling addiction.
Moving through the Maze of One's Thoughts & Feelings: A Metaphor of How CBT & ACT Attempt to Increase Psychological Flexibility
The following is a metaphor I have presented to psychology trainees beginning last year to help them understand what ACT attempts to do and how it compares to a CBT approach. It has been very well received by the trainees, the vast majority of them coming into the program having had more exposure to CBT than to ACT.
ACT for Smoking Cessation: A Preliminary Study of Its Effectiveness in Comparison With CBT
This controlled preliminary trial determined the feasibility and initial effectiveness of a promising behavioral intervention for smoking: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). In a quasiexperimental design, the ACT intervention condition used metaphors and experiential exercises focused on personal values to motivate quitting smoking and enhancing the willingness to experience internal cues to smoke (e.g., urges) and abstinence-related internal distress.
CBT and ACT for the anxiety disorders: Two approaches with much to offer
Arch and Craske (2008) examine the similarities and differences between cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy for the anxiety disorders and suggest that the two treatment approaches have as many similarities as differences. We agree and believe that there is merit in this conclusion—it brings us together in common purpose and helps move us toward improved approaches to reducing client suffering.
CBT and ACT for the anxiety disorders: Two approaches with much to offer
Arch and Craske (2008) examine the similarities and differences between cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy for the anxiety disorders and suggest that the two treatment approaches have as many similarities as differences. We agree and believe that there is merit in this conclusion—it brings us together in common purpose and helps move us toward improved approaches to reducing client suffering.
Climbing Our Hills: A Beginning Conversation on the Comparison of ACT and CBT
The history and developmental program of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and relational frame theory (RFT) is described, and against that backdrop the target article is considered. In the authors’ comparison of ACT and traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), traditional CBT does not refer to specific processes, principles, or theories but to a tribal tradition. Framed in that way, comparisons of ACT and CBT cannot succeed intellectually, because CBT cannot be pinned down.