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IJBCT Consolidated Volume 5, No. 3 & 4 311 Evaluating Acceptance and Commitment therapy : An Analysis of a Recent Critique Brandon A. Gaudiano, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University Psychosocial Research Program, Butler Hospital Abstract Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT) is a newer psychotherapy that has generated much clinical and research interest in recent years. However, the approach has begun to receive strong criticism from proponents of traditional cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
more traditional behavioral techniques (e.g., behavioral activation, exposure). The goal of these strategies is to improve psychological flexibility by fostering acceptance of internal states of distress and cognitive defusion from problematic language-based processes.
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