Cognitive behavioral therapy cbt practitioners who have integrated acceptance and commitment therapy act strategies into their practices find this revolutionary third wave treatment enormously effective however many encounter challenges due to the differences between the two therapeutic models the cbt practitioners guide to act explains how to bridge the cbt act divide and utilize both therapies for a powerful treatment approach. The core theme of a cbt practitioners guide to act is that act and cbt can be unified if they share the same philosophical underpinnings functional contextualism and theoretical orientation relational frame theory or rft thus from a cbt practitioners perspective the mechanistic philosophical core of mcbt can be dropped and the mechanistic information processing theory of cbt can be held lightly and ignored in contexts where it is not useful from an act practitioners perspective . Request pdf on jan 1 2009 j v ciarrochi and others published a cbt practitioners guide to act how to bridge the gap between cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment . This item a cbt practitioners guide to act how to bridge the gap between cognitive behavioral therapy and by joseph ciarrochi paperback 2931 only 10 left in stock more on the way ships from and sold by amazoncom. A cbt practitioners guide to act how to bridge the gap between cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy joseph ciarrochi ann bailey new harbinger publications 2008 psychology 204 pages 0 reviews interest in acceptance and commitment therapy act is expanding rapidly many of those who are interested in act are trained using a mechanistic cognitive