ACT: An invitation to move from suffering to commitment to life

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Kevin Egúsquiza-Vásquez

Abstract

Today, it is common to see many books called "self-help" and whose pages promise keys and even secrets for the development of this or that aspect in the personal life of each reader. However, the immediate question is how much of (scientific) psychology can really be found in these pages? The revised material aims precisely to try to correct this problem from its proposal: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT is a psychological therapy that forms part of contextual therapies (Hayes, Stroshal & Wilson, 2014), it lays its foundations in functional contextualism (its philosophical posture) and in the theory of the relational framework (TMR, an experimental development) to understand and explain human behaviour; this seriousness in its work has achieved that, to date, ACT enjoys great success in the treatment of multiple problems (Egúsquiza-Vásquez, 2015).

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Egúsquiza-Vásquez, K. (2017). ACT: An invitation to move from suffering to commitment to life. Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 9(2), 01–04. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v9.n2.15520
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Author Biography

Kevin Egúsquiza-Vásquez, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Miembro de la Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)

Miembro de la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología (SIP)

References

Egúsquiza-Vásquez, K. (2015). Una aproximación a la Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso. Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento, 7(3), 1-3.

Hayes, S. C. (2013). Sal de tu mente, entra en tu vida. La nueva Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso. Bilbao: Editorial Desclée De Brouwer.

Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K. D. & Wilson, K. G. (2014). Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso. Proceso y práctica del cambio consciente (Mindfulness). Bilbao: Editorial Desclée De Brouwer.

Pérez-Álvarez, M. (2014). Las terapias de tercera generación como terapias contextuales. Madrid: Editorial Síntesis.

Wilson, K. G. & Luciano, M. C. (2002). Terapia de Aceptación y Compromiso (ACT). Un tratamiento conductual orientado a los valores. Madrid: Ediciones Pirámide.