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THE ROLE OF ACCEPTANCE AND <br />

COMMITMENT THERAPY <br />

• Increase willingness to experience negave <br />

thoughts <br />

• Develop a dialogue with unpleasant thoughts <br />

that undermines the control that they have <br />

over behavior. <br />

• Rather, allowing life’s valued areas to <br />

determine behavioral direcon <br />

THE THIRD WAVE <br />

• Goals of these treatments focus on <br />

– living a meaningful existence <br />

– living according to one’s values <br />

– focusing on the present moment <br />

– tolerance of emoons. <br />

CORE PROCESSES OF ACT <br />

• ACT teaches the individual that thoughts <strong>and</strong> emoons <br />

are not necessarily causes of behavioral outcomes <br />

• Unpleasant internal experiences are not harmful as <br />

they are <br />

• Alternaves in lenng go of the struggle with <br />

unpleasant internal experiences. <br />

• Learn more flexible ways of responding to these <br />

events. <br />

COGNITIVE DEFUSION <br />

• In ACT, the therapist a^empts to help the individual <br />

change they way they view, react to, <strong>and</strong> interact with <br />

thoughts <strong>and</strong> feelings. <br />

• Most of the me, an individual with OCD has <br />

repeatedly responded to intrusive thoughts in <br />

maladapve ways, ACT teaches that one can respond <br />

differently without changing the form or content of the <br />

intrusive thought. <br />

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