ABSTRACT
At the same time as encouraging clients to let go of an unworkable change agenda (i.e. by undermining experiential avoidance), ACT therapists cultivate their clients' acceptance skills and behaviours. In this way, experiential control is viewed as a behavioural excess that needs to be weakened, and acceptance as a behavioural de®cit that simultaneously needs to be strengthened (Zettle, 2007).
