ACT with Pain : measurement, efficacy and mechanisms of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

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Vast efforts have been made to improve the understanding and treatment of chronic pain as a highly complex and difficult-to-treat problem. Knowledge on psychosocial antecedents and consequences of chronic pain is now indispensable in research and practice. The overarching challenge for the field of chronic pain research is to find solutions to the magnitude of the societal problem of chronic pain, in light of the modest treatment gains for biomedical and psychological interventions. Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a relatively new form of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that could possibly help to dissolve this challenge. The overarching goal of ACT is to attain psychological flexibility, the capacity to act effectively in accordance with intrinsically motivating values and goals in the presence of pain and associated cognitions and emotions. In doing so, ACT applies mindfulness and acceptance processes, combined with values identification and behaviour change processes

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