Motivation and emotion/Book/2013/Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and emotion/Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) vs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy(CBT)


 * Throughout the research is has become apparent that the difference between cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and ACT needs to be addressed.
 * The main difference is in how each therapy approaches behavior, ACT is more accepting of the distress and views the context in which behaviour is occurs to be problematic. Rather than, CBT which views emotions as dysfunctional and behaviour itself as problematic, with the intent to change cognition surrounding the problem. Both are goal directed and action focused as well as empirically based.

Arch, Eifert, Davies, Vilardaga, Rose & Craske, (2012). Hayes et al., 2013; Twohig,(2012)