Instead of asking readers to struggle even harder, the ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) approach outlines how to forfeit battles with anger as they occur by utilizing techniques based in mindfulness practice in which readers decide what matters most to them and then commit to short- and long-[...]

Leading researchers in acceptance and commitment therapy suggest to readers struggling with anorexia that strategies to control their disorder are themselves problems. Instead, they use the techniques of acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, to teach how better to cope with out-of-control emot[...]