Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Meta-Analytic Review

By Mark B. Powers, Maarten B. Zum Vörde Sive Vörding, Paul G. M. Emmelkamp. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (2015, background): “They have not proven to be more efficacious than other established treatments.(67) Of note, meta-analytic studies of randomized clinical trials suggest that a significant proportion of patients with PTSD will either drop out or fail to respond to psychotherapeutic treatment.”
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy versus Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Current Empirical Evidence (2012, neutral): “Third, the reference lists of reviews and meta-analyses of ACT were reviewed (i.e., Hayes et al., 2006; Montgomery, Kim, & Franklin, 2011; Öst, 2008; Powers et al., 2009; Pull, 2009; Ruiz, 2010; Woidneck, Pratt, Gundy, Nelson, & Twohig, 2012).”
Open, aware, and active: contextual approaches as an emerging trend in the behavioral and cognitive therapies. (2011, background): “About 30 of these are RCTs. Reviews and meta-analyses have revealed medium to large group effect sizes (see Hayes et al. 2006, Powers et al. 2009, Ruiz 2010).”
A review of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) empirical evidence: Correlational, experimental psychopathology, component and outcome studies. (2010, methodology): “…Öst, 2008; Power et al., 2009); (2) more evidence is needed in order to determine if ACT is better than established treatments (Levin & Hayes, 2009; Powers et al., 2009); (3) the RCTs conducted in ACT literature can be methodologically improved (Öst, 2008), although such limitations are…”
The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Adolescent Mental Health: Swedish and Australian Pilot Outcomes (2015, background): “Meta-analytic studies have shown that ACT is effective with generally medium to large effect sizes when compared to wait lists or treatment as usual across a very wide range of problem areas (Hayes et al. 2006; Ost 2008; Powers et al. 2009).”