Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Different Treatments, Similar Mechanisms?

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A review of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) empirical evidence: Correlational, experimental psychopathology, component and outcome studies. (2010, background): “Once these characteristics are noted, the controversies about the similarities between ACT and CBT (e. g. Arch & Craske, 2008; Hofmann & Asmundson, 2008) or between other types of therapies (e.g. Hofmann, 2008) can be considered from a broader perspective (see Hayes, 2008). references Andrew DH &…”
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Three Case Studies Exemplifying a Unified Treatment Protocol (2009, methodology): “The Anxiety Control Questionnaire (ACQ; Rapee, Craske, Brown, & Barlow, 1996) is a 30-item measure designed to assess perceptions of control over potentially threatening internal and external events and situations associated with anxious responding (alphas from .80 to .89; test-retest, r= .88;…”
Climbing Our Hills: A Beginning Conversation on the Comparison of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2008, background): “The authors provide one, but it is a shocker: These cognitive methods are defensible, because they “may function as a form of exposure” (Arch & Craske, 2008, p. 266).”