ABSTRACT
The values clari®cation process is designed to provide the client and therapist with a shared sense of the client's most valued behavioural directions (Luoma et al., 2007). The next step involves working with the client to translate these abstract values into more concrete goals and actions in order to promote committed action. This phase of ACT makes use of a range of more traditional behaviour therapy methods such as activity scheduling, behavioural homework assignments, and exposure (Eifert & Forsyth, 2005). In ACT, the principal function of these interventions is not for the client to engage in more pleasurable activities or to reduce symptoms of distress; rather, the aim is to help the client actively pursue valued behavioural directions while applying mindfulness and acceptance skills to the dif®cult private events that arise.
