

Want to know more about these incredibly beneficial ACT techniques? We share many interventions and videos below.īefore you continue, we thought you might like to download our three Positive Psychology Exercises for free. Used as an intervention, ACT is beneficial for a range of health problems, including managing chronic pain, addictions, anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and psychosis (Hayes, 2021).

He tells the moving story of his own suffering and how it led to the development of ACT in the TED Talk below. Hayes when he was seeking relief from his own panic disorder. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is one of the third wave of mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral therapies and has accumulated a huge scientific evidence base demonstrating its effectiveness.ĪCT was originally devised by Steven C.
