ACT and Mindfulness: Understanding the Relationship
Channel: Psychotherapy Academy
Date: 2019-06-24

Mindfulness is a critical part of the ACT model. It is an awareness that emerges from paying attention on purpose in the present moment.

Mindfulness practice is foundational to the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model. It is an awareness that emerges from paying attention on purpose in the present moment. In this presentation, Dr. D. J. Moran shows how ACT leverages the influence of mindfulness practice to promote psychological flexibility.

Here are some highlights we’ve extracted from this video:

1. Mindfulness emerges through paying attention, on purpose and nonjudgmentally, to the present moment.
2. Mindfulness has many empirically-supported benefits, one of which is building psychological flexibility.

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