DISRUPTING VERBAL PROCESSES: COGNITIVE DEFUSION IN ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY AND OTHER MINDFULNESS-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPIES

摘要: Applied behavioral psychology pivots on the formation and alteration of stimulus function: how stimuli come to differentially affect behavior these effects can be altered when they prove problematic. Relational frame theory (RFT) offers an account uniquely verbal processes transform functions. Acceptance commitment therapy (ACT) was designed counteract problematic transformations function, in part through use cognitive defusion techniques. But construct remains incompletely understood. The current article comprises attempt explore parameters around ways which are viewed operationalized within ACT RFT. A comprehensive RFT-based conceptualization is offered, hypotheses about nature its discussed, with intent spurring more focused empirical exploration characteristics inside a variety mindfulnessbased psychotherapeutic treatments.