We propose that the crucial difference between human cognition and that of other species is
the ability to participate with others in collaborative activities with shared goals and …

Buddhist traditions first explored the concept of mindfulness in broad philosophic terms
unfamiliar to most modern readers. Nevertheless, mindfulness has spread rapidly in …

Since the original publication of this seminal work, acceptance and commitment therapy
(ACT) has come into its own as a widely practiced approach to hel** people change. This …

ACT is a therapy that is based philosophically in clinical behavior analysis. Functional
contextualism is the world view that underlies ACT. Theoretically ACT is based on RFT …

The present article presents and reviews the model of psychopathology and treatment
underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is unusual in that it is linked to …

The first wave of behavior therapy countered the excesses and scientific weakness of
existing nonempirical clinical traditions through empirically studied first-order change efforts …

The wide variety of “third wave” cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) methods (eg,
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or “ACT”, Compassion Focused Therapy, Meta …

Contemporary neural networks still fall short of human-level generalization, which extends
far beyond our direct experiences. In this paper, we argue that the underlying cause for this …

The present study describes the development of a short, general measure of experiential
avoidance, based on a specific theoretical approach to this process. A theoretically driven …

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a
rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this …