Behavioral Commitments and Willingness in ACT for OCD
Key Points
- Control is the problem, not the internal experiences.
- Willingness is an alternative to control and an open stance toward our natural pain.
- Behavioral commitments are goals that are set to increase practice with ACT processes.
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Transcript
Congratulations on reaching the end of this module. In this, we’ve covered the content in sessions 2 and 3.
Session 2 covers the concepts of control as the problem and introduces the concept of willingness.
Control as a problem means that trying to control our unwanted internal experiences can actually make them grow; thus, control being the problem, not the internal experiences.