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====Acceptance ==== ACT differs from traditional cognitive behavioral therapy in its focus on acceptance.<ref name="Hayes2006" /> Rather than trying to teach people to better control their unpleasant sensations, clients learn to accept them in the appropriate context. According to ACT, it is psychologically healthy to have unpleasant thoughts and feelings.<ref name="Hayesbook" /> Attempts to avoid, suppress, or eliminate unwanted private experiences are considered counterproductive.<ref name="Cioffi1993">{{Cite journal | last = Cioffi | first = D. | last2 = Holloway | first2 = J. | date = Feb 1993 | title = Delayed costs of suppressed pain | url =https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8433273 | journal = Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | volume = 64 | issue = 2 | pages = 274β282|issn=0022-3514|pmid=8433273}}</ref> Asking a person not to think of chocolate biscuits, for example, will most likely result in that person thinking about chocolate biscuits. Negating unpleasant experiences often results in experiential avoidance, which might bring short-term relief but often exacerbates problems in the long term. Persons who drink to numb hurtful experiences for example, will most likely increase rather than solve their problems.<ref name="Hayesbook" /> As an alternative, ACT proposes a willingness to come into contact with a person's whole experience, including the painful aspects. Acceptance doesnβt mean liking or wanting these experiences or giving up on doing anything about it, but simply accepting that they are there.<ref name="Hayes2013">{{Cite journal | last = Hayes | first = Steven C. | last2 = Levin | first2 = Michael E. | last3 = Plumb-Vilardaga | first3 = Jennifer | last4 = Villatte | first4 = Jennifer L. | last5 = Pistorello | first5 = Jacqueline | date = Jun 2013 | title = Acceptance and commitment therapy and contextual behavioral science: examining the progress of a distinctive model of behavioral and cognitive therapy | url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23611068 | journal = Behavior Therapy | volume = 44 | issue = 2 | pages = 180β198|doi=10.1016/j.beth.2009.08.002|issn=1878-1888|pmc=3635495|pmid=23611068}}</ref>
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