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Acceptance and commitment therapy and anxiety disorders: Clinical case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

R. Guijarro ,
M. Cerviño  and
P. Castrillo
R. Guijarro
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Unidad de Salud Mental Comunitaria, Granada, Spain
M. Cerviño
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Unidad de Rehabilitación de Salud Mental, Granada, Spain
P. Castrillo
Affiliation:
Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Granada, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Unidad de Rehabilitación de Salud Mental, Granada, Spain

Abstract

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Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a third-generation therapy that relates to human suffering as an inherent part of life in the human condition. Concerning personal values, ACT is focused on the acceptance of suffering, by doing away with the avoidance of things that cause us discomfort.

The goal of the therapy is to make a person's reactions to suffering more flexible, working with the role of the symptoms rather than with the eliminating the symptoms themselves.

This paper shows how the application of this therapy to a person with generalized anxiety disorder helps to reduce symptoms such as uncontrollable worrying, lack of concentration and muscular tension that these patients often suffer. The modification of symptoms has been measured by a single case study, where the symptoms are assessed by questionnaires before and after the treatment's application. Diagnosis was made according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders’ (DSM-IV) criteria.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: anxiety disorders and somatoform disorders
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S410
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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