ABSTRACT
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) interventions are designed to target the processes of language, cognition, and behaviour that it assumes to be central to psychological distress and dysfunction. These processes are described in its psychological flexibility model. Thus, one way to construe ACT is as a process-orientated psychological intervention. Many experienced practitioners will conduct their sessions in a highly process-focused manner, constantly making dynamic assessments of the client’s presentation and moving between ACT processes as the situation dictates. When an ACT approach is applied to a particular issue, it can include specified interventions tailored to fit the needs and resources of that context and population. The result of this is that there are numerous varied iterations of ACT practice. They might have variations between them, although they share the same basic premise and purpose.
