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A comparison of response covariation viewed idiothetically and nomothetically
(1996)Twenty males viewed erotic slides and photographs of females and males on four different occasions while two physiological and five subjective measures of sexual arousal were taken. The relations among these measures were ... -
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A neural basis of the serial bottleneck in visual word recognition
(2019)Written language is a hallmark of cultural and technological development. The ability to read written language is a testament to the effects of learning on human behavior and brain function. However, even highly practiced ... -
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A Parametric Study of Cognitive Defusion and the Believability and Discomfort of Negative Self-Relevant Thoughts
(2009)A previous time-series study showed that rapidly repeating a single-word version of a negative self-referential thought reduced the discomfort and the believability associated with that thought. The present parametric study ... -
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A Pilot Study of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Workshop Intervention for Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Attitudes
(2012)Body image dissatisfaction is a source of significant distress among non-eating-disordered women, but because it is subclinical it is generally not treated. It remains stable throughout adulthood, and has proven resistant ... -
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A preliminary investigation of acceptance and commitment therapy as a treatment for chronic skin picking
(2006)The effectiveness of a deliberately limited version of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for chronic skin picking was evaluated in a pair of multiple baseline across participants designs. Self-monitoring of skin ... -
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A preliminary Investigation of acceptance and commitment therapy as a treatment for marijuana dependence in adults
(2007)In this investigation, 3 adults who met criteria for marijuana dependence were treated using an abbreviated version of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). The treatment was delivered in eight weekly 90-min individual ... -
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A preliminary trial of Twelve-Step Facilitation and acceptance and commitment therapy with polysubstance-abusing methadone-maintained opiate addicts
(2004)The present study compared methadone maintenance alone to methadone maintenance in combination with 16 weeks of either Intensive Twelve-Step Facilitation (ITSF) or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in a preliminary ... -
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A randomised controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for psychosis: study protocol
(2014)Background: Cognitive behavior therapy for psychosis has been a prominent intervention in the psychological treatment of psychosis. It is, however, a challenging therapy to deliver and, in the context of increasingly ... -
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A Randomized Clinical Trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Versus Progressive Relaxation Training for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(2010)Objective: Effective treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exist, but additional treatment options are needed. The effectiveness of 8 sessions of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for adult OCD was ... -
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A randomized control trial examining the effect of acceptance and commitment training on clinician willingness to use evidence-based pharmacotherapy
(2008)This study evaluated the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment training (ACT) for increasing drug and alcohol counselors' willingness to use evidence-based agonist and antagonist pharmacotherapy. Fifty-nine drug and ... -
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A randomized trial of ACT bibliotherapy on the mental health of K-12 teachers and staff
(2012)The mental health challenges of some vocations present a challenge for current intervention models. Bibliotherapy focused on transdiagnostic processes that might both prevent and alleviate a range of mental health distress ... -
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A relational frame training intervention to raise intelligence quotients: a pilot study
(2011)The current research consisted of 2 studies designed to test the effectiveness of automated multiple-exemplar relational training in raising children's general intellectual skills. In Study 1, 4 participants were exposed ... -
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science: Examining the Progress of a Distinctive Model of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy
(2013)A number of recent authors have compared acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and traditional cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). The present article describes ACT as a distinct and unified model of behavior change, linked ... -
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Unified Model of Behavior Change
(2012)The present article summarizes the assumptions, model, techniques, evidence, and diversity/social justice commitments of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT focused on six processes (acceptance, defusion, self, ... -
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach
(2018-01)Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the field of health psychology. In this paper, we introduce a contextdriven approach, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ... -
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach
(2018)Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the field of health psychology. In this paper, we introduce a context-driven approach, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ... -
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Acceptance and commitment therapy for psychosis: intent to treat, hospitalization outcome and mediation by believability
(2013)Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) has been shown to be efficacious when used as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for psychotic disorders. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a contextual form of CBT that attempts to ...