Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Hi, I'm Hugo Martínez, a third-year student of the Psychology Degree in the University of Oviedo. and today (as a first informal publication) I'm going to talk about ACT . Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is one of the called "Contextual Therapies" or "Third Wave Generation Therapies", in which "Third wave", like you all can suspect, means another two generation therapies before it. The first generation therapies were the direct applications of Classical Conditioning and Operant Conditioning, we are talking about Behavior Therapy, which was in part a rebellion against prevailing clinical conceptions. Early behavior therapists believed that theories should be built upon the bedrock of scientifically well-established basic principles, and that applied technologies should be well-specified and rigorously tested. In contrast, existing clinical traditions had a very poor link to scientifically established basic principles, vague speci...