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Abstract
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a radical behavioral and process-based psychotherapy model, which is among the third wave approaches of behavioral therapies, whose philosophical founda-tions are based on the Functional Contextualism theory, and its theoretical basis on the Relational Frame Theory based on the language-cognition relationship. ACT aims to help individuals accept the events or situations that occur out of their control and affect them negatively, and to maintain behav-iors that will make their lives more meaningful. The purpose of this review is to discuss and present ACT in general terms. In this context, first, three generations of Behavioral Therapies will be examined and the emergence process of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy will be discussed. Then, the life of Steven C. Hayes, the founder of ACT, will be included, and this section will focus on the Functional Contextualism and the Relational Frame Theory that forms the theoretical basis of ACT. Then, the approach of the theory to human nature, its basic concepts and the process of therapy will be examined. Afterwards, the results of the studies on the effectiveness of ACT will be examined and finally the study will be terminated by including the criticisms made on ACT.
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