Slide 1

There are six

essential
sub-processes
in ACT

Essential
Components
of ACT

Slide 2

Acceptance

Essential
Components
of ACT
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Acceptance

Essential
Components
of ACT

Defusion

Slide 4

Acceptance

Essential
Components
of ACT

Defusion

Self as
Context
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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
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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
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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.

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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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.

4/21/2005
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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.

4/21/2005