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dc.contributor.authorZhang, C.
dc.contributor.authorLeeming, E.
dc.contributor.authorSmith, P.
dc.contributor.authorChung, P.
dc.contributor.authorHagger, Martin
dc.contributor.authorHayes, S.
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-19T07:58:50Z
dc.date.available2018-02-19T07:58:50Z
dc.date.created2018-02-19T07:13:30Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationZhang, C. and Leeming, E. and Smith, P. and Chung, P. and Hagger, M. and Hayes, S. 2018. Acceptance and commitment therapy for health behavior change: A contextually-driven approach. Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 2350.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/65555
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02350
dc.description.abstract

© 2018 Zhang, Leeming, Smith, Chung, Hagger and Hayes. Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the field of health psychology. In this paper, we introduce a context-driven approach, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model which is built on Relational Frame Theory. The ACT-based intervention aims to promote individuals' new health behavior patterns through the improvement of the key construct of psychological flexibility, which is defined as the ability to contact the present moment more fully with acceptance and mindfulness as a conscious human being. Building on the psychological flexibility model, implemented through the six core ACT processes, individuals improve maintenance of long term health behavior change through committed acts in service of chosen values while acknowledging and accepting the existence of contrary thoughts, rules, and emotions as part of themselves but not determinant of their behaviors. Taking advantage of this context-driven approach of health behavior change, we recommend researchers and practitioners to design their health behavior change intervention programs based on ACT.

dc.publisherFrontiers Research Foundation
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleAcceptance and commitment therapy for health behavior change: A contextually-driven approach
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume8
dcterms.source.numberJAN
dcterms.source.issn1664-1078
dcterms.source.titleFrontiers in Psychology
curtin.departmentSchool of Psychology
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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