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dc.contributor.authorZhang, Chun-Qing
dc.contributor.authorLeeming, Emily
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorChung, Pak-Kwong
dc.contributor.authorHagger, Martin
dc.contributor.authorHayes, Steven C.
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-30T06:23:19Z
dc.date.available2018-01-30T06:23:19Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationZhang, C.-Q., Leeming, E., Smith, P., Chung, P.-K., Hagger, M., & Hayes, S. C. (2018). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach. <i>Frontiers in Psychology</i>, <i>8</i>, Article 2350. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02350" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02350</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_27877094
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_76677
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/56943
dc.description.abstractPromoting 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.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Research Foundation
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFrontiers in Psychology
dc.subject.otherACT
dc.subject.otherbehavior change
dc.subject.otherbehavior maintenance
dc.subject.otherpsychological flexibility
dc.subject.otherRelational frame theory
dc.titleAcceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201801291363
dc.contributor.laitosLiikuntatieteellinen tiedekuntafi
dc.contributor.laitosFaculty of Sport and Health Sciencesen
dc.contributor.oppiaineLiikuntapsykologiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineSport and Exercise Psychologyen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2018-01-29T13:15:14Z
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn1664-1078
dc.relation.numberinseries0
dc.relation.volume8
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2018 Zhang, Leeming, Smith, Chung, Hagger and Hayes. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License.
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dc.subject.ysoterveyspsykologia
dc.subject.ysoterveyskäyttäytyminen
dc.subject.ysohyväksymis- ja omistautumisterapia
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p12550
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p11100
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p20112
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02350
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© 2018 Zhang, Leeming, Smith, Chung, Hagger and Hayes. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License.
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