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===Context=== In ACT, context is seen as key in determining the value and meaning of events.<ref name="Hayes2006">{{Cite journal | last = Hayes | first = Steven C. | last2 = Luoma | first2 = Jason B. | last3 = Bond | first3 = Frank W. | last4 = Masuda | first4 = Akihiko | last5 = Lillis | first5 = Jason | date = Jan 2006 | title = Acceptance and commitment therapy: model, processes and outcomes |url =https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16300724 | journal = Behaviour Research and Therapy | volume = 44 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–25|doi=10.1016/j.brat.2005.06.006|issn=0005-7967|pmid=16300724}}</ref> In the 1980s Steven C. Hayes and colleagues developed Relational Frame Theory (RFT), forms the scientific and philosophical basis of ACT.<ref name="Hayes2006" /><ref name="McHugh2011">{{Cite journal | last = McHugh | first = Louise | date = Sep 2011 | title = A new approach in psychotherapy: ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy) | url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21906000 | journal = The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry: The Official Journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry | volume = 12 | issue = Suppl 1 | pages = 76–79|doi=10.3109/15622975.2011.603225|issn=1814-1412|pmid=21906000}}</ref> According to RFT, the core of language and cognition is the ability to mentally relate events and change their function and meaning based on their relations to other events. One often used example is that of a young child who thinks a nickel is worth more than a dime because of its larger size. That changes, however, as soon as the child learns the arbitrarily defined money value attached to a nickel and a dime. This human ability to create mental realities is central to ACT. According to ACT, suffering occurs "when people so strongly believe the literal contents of their mind that they become fused with their cognitions."'<ref name="Hayesbook" /> If people take their unpleasant thoughts and feeling as a reality, this might lead to experiential avoidance and psychological problems. To goal of ACT is to bring verbal cognitive processes under better contextual control.<ref name="Hayes2006" /> Instead of changing the content of mental events, to focus is to alter their interpretation and meaning.<ref name="Prevedini">{{Cite journal | last = Prevedini | first = Anna Bianca | last2 = Presti | first2 = Giovambattista | last3 = Rabitti | first3 = Elisa | last4 = Miselli | first4 = Giovanni | last5 = Moderato | first5 = Paolo | date = Jan 2011 | title = Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT): the foundation of the therapeutic model and an overview of its contribution to the treatment of patients with chronic physical diseases |url =https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21488484 | journal = Giornale Italiano Di Medicina Del Lavoro Ed Ergonomia | volume = 33 | issue = 1 Suppl A| pages=A53–63|issn=1592-7830|pmid=21488484}}</ref>
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