ABSTRACT
The control-oriented change agenda is slowly being revealed as part of the problem. Initially, the ACT therapist conducts this work in a gradual and indirect way, helping the client examine workability within her or his own experience. As things progress, the control agenda is placed more ®rmly on the table and undermined more explicitly. This feature of ACT often includes the following therapeutic strategies:
· Collaboratively naming the control agenda. · Normalizing and validating the client's attempts to control
private events.
