A review of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) empirical evidence: Correlational, experimental psychopathology, component and outcome studies.

By F. Ruiz. 2010

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Processes Underlying Depression: Risk Aversion, Emotional Schemas, and Psychological Flexibility (2012, background): “There is evidence that the effects of negative thoughts, difficult feelings, maladaptive coping, emotional response styles, cognitive reappraisal, and perceived controllability, are all partially or fully mediated by psychological flexibility (Levin, Hildebrandt, Lillis, & Hayes, in press; Ruiz, 201”
The Difficulty of Defining Mindfulness: Current Thought and Critical Issues (2013, background): “…mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have shown efficacy for several mood and anxiety disorders (Chiesa and Serretti 2011b; Hofmann et al. 2010; Ruiz 2010), for miscellaneous types of chronic pain such as musculoskeletal pain, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia (Chiesa and Serretti 2011a),…”
Understanding individual compassion in organizations: the role of appraisals and psychological flexibility (2011, background): “Acceptance of unpleasant thoughts and feelings is a demonstrably effective self-regulatory strategy (Hayes, Follette, & Linehan, 2004; Hayes et al., 2006; Ruiz, 2010).”
Experiential Avoidance in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples: AAQ-II Portuguese Version (2012, background): “In line with this, a growing body of research suggests that EA can be conceptualized as a pathological process implicated in the etiology and maintenance of many forms of psychopathology (Boulanger, Hayes, & Pistorello, 2010; Hayes et al., 1996; Hayes et al., 1999; Hayes et al., 2006; Ruiz, 2010), s”
Open, aware, and active: contextual approaches as an emerging trend in the behavioral and cognitive therapies. (2011, methodology): “ACT components have been tested in more than 40 studies, most done with a single technique or a small set of techniques (Levin et al. 2011, Ruiz 2010).”
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy versus Traditional Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Current Empirical Evidence (2012, background): “In fact, ACT has been the focus of most of the criticisms to the third generation therapies (see reviews in Gaudiano, 2011; Ruiz, 2010).”
Italian Version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II): Dimensionality, Reliability, Convergent and Criterion Validity (2013, background): “body of previous evidence suggesting that inflexibility is a key process involved in the aetiology and maintenance of psychopathology and psychological suffering (e.g., BarnesHolmes et al. 2004; Chawla and Ostafin 2007; Fledderus et al. 2010; Gaudiano 2011; Hayes et al. 2006; Öst 2008; Pull 2008; Ru”
Effectiveness of online mindfulness-based interventions in improving mental health: A review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. (2016, background): “Extensive descriptions of MBSR, MBCT, DBT and ACT as well as their underlying mechanisms of change can be found elsewhere (Baer, 2003; Bishop, 2002; Feigenbaum, 2007; Hayes, Luoma, Bond, Masuda, & Lillis, 2006; Metcalf & Dimidjian, 2014; Praissman, 2008; Ruiz, 2010).”
Ethics, Values, Virtues, and Character Strengths in Mindfulness-Based Interventions: a Psychological Science Perspective (2015, background): “Many studies have shown that ACT leads to significant increases in self-reported psychological flexibility, defined as the ability to fully contact the present moment and behave in values-consistent ways in the presence of difficult thoughts and feelings (Hayes et al. 2006; Ruiz 2010).”
Acceptance and commitment therapy. (2014, background): “Effect sizes have been found to be medium to large and have further improved at follow- up (Ruiz, 2010).”
Shame, self-criticism, self-stigma, and compassion in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2015, background): “the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) across a wide range of conditions [1–3].”