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Table 1.

Description of ACT components and processes

Components	Processes	Description
Openness	Acceptance	Willingness to experience urges, emotions, and thoughts as they are and without any intent to change them.
	Defusion	Recognizing thoughts, self-judgments, images, and memories as just words and pictures.

Awareness	Present moment	Observation and non-judgmental description of current thoughts, feelings, sensations or other events.
	Self-as-context	A sense of self that is flexible and distinct from the content of one’s thoughts, feelings and sensations.

Activation	Values	Chosen life directions that guide actions.
	Commitment	Engagement in activities consistent with chosen values.