Slide 1
There are six
essential
sub-processes
in ACT
Essential
Components
of ACT
Slide 2
Acceptance
Essential
Components
of ACT
Slide 3
Acceptance
Essential
Components
of ACT
Defusion
Slide 4
Acceptance
Essential
Components
of ACT
Defusion
Self as
Context
Slide 5
Contact with the
Present Moment
Acceptance
Essential
Components
of ACT
Defusion
Self as
Context
Slide 6
Contact with the
Present Moment
Acceptance Values
Essential
Components
of ACT
Defusion
Self as
Context
Slide 7
Contact with the
Present Moment
Acceptance Values
Essential
Components
of ACT
Defusion Committed
Action
Self as
Context
Slide 8
Colloquially: Let Go
There are several
kinds of relations
among these six
essential sub-
Acceptance
processes. Shared
property relations are
Shared those in which each
Property
Relations component together
forms a functional
Defusion unit. Defusion and
acceptance are both
about undermining
excessive literality, or
(more colloquially)
letting go.
Undermine
More technically: Excessive Literality
Slide 9
Colloquially: Let Go Show Up
Self as context and
contact with the
Contact with the
Present Moment
present moment both
involve verbal and
non-verbal aspects of
Acceptance here and now, or
more colloquially,
Shared showing up.
Property
Relations These processes are
in the center of the
Defusion hexagram because
issues of being are
central to all of the
Self as other processes and
Context
at one level of
analysis ACT can be
Undermine Verbal and
distilled down into a
More technically: Excessive Literality Non-Verbal single word: Be.
Slide 10
Colloquially: Let Go Show Up Get Moving
Contact with the
Present Moment
Values and
Committed
action
Acceptance Values involve
positive uses
Shared of language
Property to choose and
Relations complete
courses of
Defusion Committed action ...
Action
that is they
Self as are about
Context
getting
moving
Undermine Verbal and Build Positive
More technically: Excessive Literality Non-Verbal Use of Language
Slide 11
Dialectical relations exist between undermining and promoting
language functions in the service of acceptance and change
Acceptance Values
Defusion Committed
Action
Facets of the
Acceptance and Change
Dialectic
Slide 12
Contact with the
Present Moment Some
relations are
simply
mutually
Acceptance Values facilitative ...
for example
defusion
helps make
Facilitative contact with
the present
Relations moment
possible
while
Defusion contacting
Committed
the present
Action
moment
provides the
events that
Self as may need to
Context be defused
from
Slide 13
This then is the Contact with the
Present Moment
overall
ACT model
Acceptance Values
Defusion Committed
Action
Self as
Context
Slide 14
Acceptance and Contact with the You can chunk
Present Moment
Mindfulness them into two
Processes
larger groups
Acceptance Values
Defusion Committed
Action
Self as
Context
Slide 15
and Contact with the Commitment
Present Moment
and Behavior
Change Processes
Acceptance Values
Defusion Committed
Action
Thus the name
Acceptance and
Commitment Self as
Context
Therapy
Slide 16
Contact with the
The Essence of Present Moment
ACT Work
Acceptance Values
is this
psychological
space
Defusion Committed
Action
and what it is,
Self as
is the answer to Context
this central ...
Slide 17
ACT Question Contact with the (6) at this time, in
Present Moment this situation?
(2) are you willing to
have that stuff, fully
and without defense
Acceptance Values
(5) of your chosen
values
If the answer is
Psychological
yes, that is Flexibility
what builds... (4) AND do what
takes you in the
direction
Defusion Committed
(3) as it is, and not as Action
what it says it is,
Self as (1) Given a distinction between
Context you and the stuff you are
struggling with and trying to
change
Slide 18
Psychological Flexibility
Psychological flexibility is contacting the present
moment fully as a conscious, historical human being,
and based on what the situation affords changing or
persisting in behavior in the service of chosen values.
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Slide 19
We Can Now Define ACT
ACT is a functional contextual therapy approach based on
Relational Frame Theory which views human psychological
problems dominantly as problems of psychological inflexibility
fostered by cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance. In the
context of a therapeutic relationship, ACT brings direct
contingencies and indirect verbal processes to bear on the
experiential establishment of greater psychological flexibility
primarily through acceptance, defusion, establishment of a
transcendent sense of self, contact with the present moment, values,
and building larger and larger patterns of committed action linked to
those values.
Said more simply, ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness processes,
and commitment and behavior change processes, to produce greater
psychological flexibility.
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