Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach

Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the field of health psychology. In this paper, we introduce a context-driven approach, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model which is built on Relational Frame Theory. The ACT-based intervention ai...

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Main Authors: Chun-Qing Zhang, Emily Leeming, Patrick Smith, Pak-Kwong Chung, Martin S. Hagger, Steven C. Hayes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
ACT
behavior change
behavior maintenance
psychological flexibility
relational frame theory
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02350/full

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