Acceptance and Commitment therapy does not require any formal practice. Strategies of mindfulness can be taught to the clients, and then, they can replicate it at home. This allows it to be easy and attainable for those with busier lives like parents with disabled children. 

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- Improves processes of change amongst tested subjects
- Reduces psychological symptoms such as social anxiety and depression
- improves mood processes amongst individuals with PTSD after Traumatic Brain Injury
- it does not require formal practice
- Lessen the likelihood of re-hospitilization for Chronic Mental illness
- Lessen Believability of positive schizophrenic symptoms
- Can decrease symptom occurrence
- less time consuming compared to practices like MBSR
- a trans-diagnostic treatment method: it can treat more than one disorder at a time


Benefits of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy 

Lunsky, Y., Fung, K., Lake, J., & Bryce, K. (2017, December 7). Evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)for Mothers of Children and Youth with Autism SpectrumDisorder. Mindfulness 9, 1110-1116. Retrieved from: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12671-017-0846-3

Evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Mothers of Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has been demonstrated to improve processes of change amongst tested subjects.

Benefits of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Effects on Processes of Change

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has been shown to reduce psychological symptoms such as depression amongst tested populations. 

Benefits of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Effects on Psychological Symptoms

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy has been shown to improve mood processes amongst tested subjects, especially anxiety and depression related moods as a result of PSTD from Traumatic Brain Injury. 

Benefits of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Effects on Mood Processes

Compared to the control group  (treatment as usual or TAU), the ACT+TAU group showed a decrease in the believability of their symptoms during the 4 month follow-up.  The rapid decrease in believability can be due to the cognitive defusion of the delusional beliefs and hallucinations. 

Believability of Schizophrenic Symptoms with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Participants were twice as likely to end up hospitalized in the TAU(treatment as Usual) group than the ACT+TAU group. The ACT+TAU group also stayed an average 22 days less than the TAU group. 

Re-hospitalization decreases with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is.a trans-diagnostic treatment method, meaning that it can be used to treat more than one disorder at a time. A common use of this is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Depression simultaneously. 

Benefits of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Trans-diagnostic treatment 

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can increase the reporting of positive symptoms in psychotic patients compared to control groups. Rather than indicating an actual increase in symptom occurrence—which is difficult to test due to changes in the believability of symptoms—this increase in reporting likely occurs because ACT makes patients more aware of and accepting of their symptoms, enabling them to openly acknowledge them.

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