Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Can peer-tutored psychological flexibility training facilitate physical activity among adults with overweight?89
Cognitive fusion and treatment response to depression in caregivers of relatives with dementia.75
Truce: Outcomes and mechanisms of change of a seven-week acceptance and commitment therapy program for young people whose parent has cancer42
Building a digital tool to support focused acceptance and commitment therapy practitioners in New Zealand primary care: A qualitative exploration of user needs to guide software feature development36
Does Cognitive Fusion show up similarly across two behavioral health samples? Psychometric properties and invariance of the Greek–Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (G-CFQ)35
Remediating rigid rule-following in subclinical obsessive-compulsive disorder using a brief mindfulness task: A case-control pilot study35
Psychological flexibility and the Eudaimonic Activity Model: Testing associations among psychological flexibility, need satisfaction, and subjective well-being33
Introduction to the special issue on COVID-1928
A fresh lens on psychological flexibility: Using network analysis and the Unified Flexibility and Mindfulness Model to uncover paths to wellbeing and distress28
Mindfulness and cognitive emotion regulation in pediatric misophonia28
Community Initiated Care: A blue-print for the practical realization of contextual behavioral science27
A multi-sample investigation of psychological flexibility processes and reactive and proactive functions of aggression27
Existential therapies and the extended evolutionary meta-model: Turning existential philosophy into process-based therapy23
The relation of grit to weight loss maintenance outcomes23
Predicting sleep quality and insomnia severity using the components of the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model: A new perspective22
An online contextual schema therapy workshop for social anxiety symptoms – A randomized controlled trial21
A call for ACTion: A systematic review of empirical evidence for the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with LGBTQI+ individuals19
Assessment methods in single case design studies of psychological treatments for chronic pain: A scoping review19
Associations of psychological inflexibility with posttraumatic stress disorder and adherence to COVID-19 control measures among refugees in Uganda: The moderating role of coping strategies19
The Mindful Healthcare Scale (MHS): Development and initial validation19
The ACT trained physical therapist: Psychologically flexible, resilient, and armed with evidence-based tools19
An acceptance and commitment therapy-based intervention for opioid use disorder risk in individuals with cancer: A treatment development study19
Examining item content across nine psychological (in)flexibility scales: What do they measure?18
Examining the effects of process-based therapy: A multiple baseline study18
A mixed methods study investigating alexithymia, experiential avoidance, and psychological distress: Insights into men with high externally oriented thinking16
Investigating cognitive fusion, mindfulness and experiential avoidance in relation to psychosis-like symptoms in the general population16
Health, well-being, and persisting symptoms in the pandemic: What is the role of psychological flexibility?15
The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI): Discriminant validity of psychological flexibility with distress15
Monitoring change in heart rate variability following acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain: Results of a randomized controlled trial for individuals with neurofibromatosis type 114
Ensuring interdisciplinary partnerships and commitment to Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS) principles among diverse scholars who serve diverse communities14
Exploring the contribution of psychological flexibility processes and self-compassion to depression, anxiety and adjustment in parents of preterm infants14
The importance of idiographic and functionally analytic strategies in the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders14
The interplay among BMI, body dissatisfaction, body appreciation, and body image inflexibility in Chinese young adults: A network perspective14
Measuring psychological flexibility: The cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the AAQ for substance abuse among Spanish speaking population in correctional and community settings14
Self and rules in a sample of adults experiencing homelessness: Relationships to shame, well-being, and psychological inflexibility14
Changes in university students’ behaviour and study burnout risk during ACT-based online course intervention: A mixed methods study14
Perceptions and experiences of acceptance and commitment therapy among people with mental disorders: A qualitative systematic review13
The effect of brief acceptance and commitment training on values-based behaviors of Japanese parents of children with autism13
Exploring the role of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance in predicting smartphone use among medical university students13
Further validation of the 18-item Portuguese CompACT scale using a multi-sample design: Confirmatory factor analysis and correlates of psychological flexibility13
Implementing the ACBS task force agenda13
Examining the effects of prior Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) treatment among anxious cancer survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial12
Investigating the delivery of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) smartphone app intervention on symptomology in adult IBS patients: A feasibility study12
The effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on the psychological flexibility and inflexibility of undergraduate students: A systematic review and three-level meta-analysis12
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for women living with Vulvodynia: A single-case experimental design study of a treatment delivered online12
Perspectives on an integrated acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness meditation program: A qualitative study of veterans with chronic pain12
Acceptance and commitment training for reducing burnout in medical students during a clinical clerkship in psychiatry and palliative care: A pilot study12
Stress and mental health: The role of emotional schemas and psychological flexibility in the context of COVID-1912
Capturing the context of drug use for college students: A contextual behavioural science informed qualitative analysis of harm reduction practices using network feedback loops simulation modelling11
A systematic review of inclusion of minoritized populations in randomized controlled trials of acceptance and commitment therapy10
Brief transdiagnostic group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for acute inpatients with complex mental health conditions: A randomised pilot study using an active social control10
ACT in the workplace: A meta-analytic examination of randomized controlled trials10
Magis – A magical adventure: Using a mobile game to deliver an ACT intervention for elementary schoolchildren in classroom settings10
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder in a Brazilian context: Treatment of three cases10
Exploring the effectiveness of mindfulness-based and third wave interventions in addressing self-stigma, shame and their impacts on psychosocial functioning: A systematic review10
Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of personalized psychological flexibility index (C-PPFI) in college students9
Using the ACT matrix to improve sleep: A practical guide for implementing the "what" and the "how" of sleep hygiene9
Acceptance-based telephone support around the time of transition to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: A feasibility randomised controlled trial9
Gender differences in multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation: The mediating role of pain acceptance9
Physiological, behavioral, and self-report outcomes of acceptance- and regulation-based exposure for intrusive thoughts9
Effectiveness of ACT-based intervention in compliance with the model for sustainable mental health: A cluster randomized control trial in a group of older adults9
Assessing psychological inflexibility in text: An examination of the inflexitext program9
Verbal relations in the context of university experience: An exploratory analysis using a relational density theoretical framework and case example9
Evidence and characteristics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based interventions for insomnia: A systematic review of randomized and non-randomized trials8
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From mistakes to mastery: An idiographic microanalytical study comparing processes related to effective and ineffective outcomes in behavioral interventions8
Mechanisms of change in an Internet-Based ACT study for depression in China8
Distinct Pathways to Well-Being: Exploring Valued Action and Mood Among Stoics and Non-Stoics8
The relation between ADHD symptoms and alcohol and cannabis use outcomes in a cross-sectional study of college students: The mediating role of experiential avoidance8
Shared trauma: Examining the moderating role of parental psychological flexibility and self-compassion on PTSD and distress in refugee families7
The effect of SMART relational skills training on intelligence quotients: Controlling for individual differences in attentional skills and baseline IQ7
Incremental validity of the AAQ-II for anxiety disorder symptomology7
Targeting social connection in the context of Trauma: Functional outcomes and mechanisms of change7
The moderating effects of psychological flexibility and psychological inflexibility on the relationship between climate concern and climate-related distress7
Exploring the addition of self-compassion skills training to a behavioral weight loss program delivered using video conferencing software7
Introducing article numbering to Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science7
Exploring the role of contextual behavioural science variables and education in the prosocial domain of global poverty and human rights7
The Turkish validation of the short form of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire (AFQ-Y8): Factor structure, measurement invariance, and incremental validity7
Processes of change in online acceptance and commitment therapy for hoarding7
A mixed-methods evaluation of experiential intervention exercises for values and committed action from an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) mental health promotion program for university student7
Contextual approach to emotional and psychological support for Malaysian adolescents: Feasibility and pilot outcomes6
The impact of functional class and depressive symptomatology on rule-based insensitivity6
Limited effects of phone coaching in an RCT of online self-guided acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain6
Food Thought Suppression Inventory: Item response theory and measurement invariance in Portuguese adults6
Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy for addictive behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
The impact of psychological flexibility on family dynamics amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal perspective6
Caring for someone with an acquired brain injury: The role of psychological flexibility6
Telehealth acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescents with transdiagnostic health-related anxiety: A pilot randomized controlled trial6
Chinese version of the simplified psychological flexibility scale-6 (C-Psy-Flex): Study of its psychometric properties from the perspective of classical test theory and network analysis6
Symbolic or derived generalization of fear and avoidance in humans: A systematic review6
Aggressiveness in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder as assessed by the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure6
Forwarding the ACBS Task Force recommendations: The case for the functional-cognitive framework and out-of-sample prediction6
Spanish adaptation of the Awareness, Courage and Responsiveness Scale: Preliminary psychometric properties in non-clinical samples6
On the measurement of relational responding6
Toward empirical process-based case conceptualization: An idionomic network examination of the process-based assessment tool6
Group acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescent anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis5
A systematic review and narrative synthesis of the complex interplay between psychological flexibility and sleep health5
Diversity-related factors in research mentorship and publishing in the ACBS community and the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science5
Applying concepts of relational density theory to climate related consumer behavior: A contextual extension study5
Through the extended evolutionary meta-model, and what ACT found there: ACT as a process-based therapy5
Implementation of ACT in correctional and forensic settings5
Psychological inflexibility in terms of eating behaviors among individuals seeking treatment for comorbid affective vulnerabilities and weight-related behaviors5
Minority stress, mental health, and mindfulness and self-compassion as moderators among young sexual minority men: A moderated structural equation analysis5
Content validity and perceived utility of a self-help online acceptance and commitment therapy program focused on repetitive negative thinking5
Advancing the assessment of psychological flexibility: Development and validation of a novel context-sensitive measure in people with chronic physical illness5
A call for qualitative research in Contextual Behavioral Science5
Intolerance of uncertainty and psychological symptoms among people with a missing loved one: Emotion regulation difficulties and psychological inflexibility as mediators5
Taking ACTion for anxiety and depression: A pilot study of a brief virtual Acceptance and commitment therapy group in primary care5
Oncovox: A randomised controlled trial of a web-based acceptance and commitment therapy for breast cancer patients4
Optimizing process-based therapy: A Boruta-driven approach to Identifying key clinical outcomes in a Swedish validation of the process-based assessment tool (PBAT)4
The CompACT-10: Development and validation of a Comprehensive assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes short-form in representative UK samples4
The effects of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on psychological and physical outcomes among cancer patients and survivors: An umbrella review4
Characterizing the effects of self-compassion interventions on anxiety: Meta-analytic evidence from randomized controlled studies4
Developing an item pool to assess processes of change in psychological interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT)4
Supporting employers and their employees with mental hEalth conditions to remain eNgaged and producTive at wORk (MENTOR): A feasibility randomised controlled trial4
The development and validation of the experiential avoidance rating scale (EARS): A self-report questionnaire that might actually measure experiential avoidance4
The relationship between parental stress and psychological adjustment of the children: The role of parental psychological flexibility as a mediator4
Web-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for adults with type 1 diabetes: A single case experimental design (SCED)4
Measurement of psychological flexibility in the context of parenting: A scoping review4
Emotion dysregulation and psychological inflexibility in adolescents: Discriminant validity and associations with internalizing symptoms and functional impairment4
Emotion regulation and memory in response to a trauma analogue: An online experimental comparison of humor and acceptance4
Confucian-informed ACT for psychological flexibility, mental health, and sleep in college students: A randomized controlled trial4
Factors predicting quality of life in family carers of people with dementia: The role of psychological inflexibility4
The relative importance of transdiagnostic factors associated with problematic smartphone use4
Exploring the interpersonal consequences of adverse childhood experiences in college students4
A trauma-focused intensive outpatient program integrating elements of exposure therapy with acceptance and commitment therapy: Program development and initial outcomes4
Resilience mediates the cross-sectional relationship between mindfulness and positive mental health in early adolescence4
In the shadow of COVID-19: A randomized controlled online ACT trial promoting adolescent psychological flexibility and self-compassion4
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) among U.S. veterans: A systematic review4
Values matter in approach behaviors: A replication using contamination anxiety behavioral approach tasks4
Intensive outpatient acceptance and commitment therapy with exposure and response prevention for adolescents4
Disentangling trait and state psychological inflexibility: A longitudinal multilevel approach4
Initial steps in developing acceptance and commitment therapy for moral injury among combat veterans: Two pilot studies4
Masculinity, social connection, and loneliness: A contextual behavioral science approach to men's social relationships and intimacy4
A pilot randomized controlled trial of culturally-adapted, telehealth group acceptance and commitment therapy for Iranian adolescent females reporting symptoms of anxiety4
On the structure of relational responding4
Psychometric properties of the Psy-flex scale: A validation study in a community sample in Korea4
Does it help to talk about it? Co-rumination, internalizing symptoms, and committed action during the COVID-19 global pandemic4
Momentary appraisals of uncontrollable and unpredictable events predict caregiver well-being: Evidence from an experience sampling study3
Assessing mindfulness and self-compassion facets as mediators of change in patients with depressive, anxious and adjustment disorders: Secondary data analysis of a randomized controlled trial3
Experiential avoidance in depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive related, and posttraumatic stress disorders: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis3
Weight stigma and healthcare avoidance among women with obesity: The moderating roles of body image-related psychological inflexibility and cognitive fusion3
The experiences of family caregiver and clinician facilitators implementing a co-delivered acceptance and commitment training (ACT) intervention3
Commentary: Person-specific, multivariate, and dynamic analytic approaches to actualize ACBS task force recommendations for contextual behavioral science3
Heavy drinking and psychological intimate partner aggression (IPA): The interactive effects of experiential avoidance and trait anger3
Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Training on psychological flexibility and burnout in medical education3
Latent Profiles of Processes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Their Associations with Eating Disorder Symptoms Among Adult Women3
The role of psychological flexibility in palliative care3
Italian validation of the Italian multidimensional psychological flexibility inventory (MPFI)3
Acceptance and commitment therapy in parents of children with cancer at psychosocial risk: A randomized multiple baseline evaluation3
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for pediatric chronic non-cancer pain: A systematic review3
Attachment, emotion, and change: Emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT) within a process-based therapy (PBT) framework3
Suicidality, gender identity-related stressors, and psychological flexibility among transgender and non-binary adults3
Using group-based interactive video teleconferencing to make self-compassion more accessible: A randomized controlled trial3
Truce: Feasibility and acceptability of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based intervention for adolescents and young adults impacted by parental cancer3
Predicting personal protective equipment use, trauma symptoms, and physical symptoms in the USA during the early weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown (April 9–18, 2020)3
Assessing acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescent mental health: Single-case A-B design with high temporal density assessments3
Acceptability of an adapted mindfulness and acceptance-based intervention to support adolescents with HIV: A qualitative study with Ugandan health care providers3
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) offers unique procedures for acceptance of emotion and may contribute to the process-based therapy movement3
ACT and the Kyoto School of Philosophy:Interdisciplinary dialogues on personhood, ethics, and becoming3
An examination of transformation of evaluative and consequential functions through derived relations with participant-generated values-relevant stimuli3
Acceptability of ACT group intervention for adolescents with type 1 diabetes3
The current status of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in Iran: A systematic narrative review3
Effects of acceptance and commitment therapy-based intervention on fatigue interference and health-related quality of life in patients with advanced lung cancer: A randomised controlled trial3
Is giving receiving? The influence of autonomy on the association between prosocial behavior and well-being3
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Comprehensive Assessment of acceptance and Commitment Therapy (CompACT) in active-duty military personnel3
Self-compassion buffers the effects of perfectionistic self-presentation on social media on wellbeing3
The Persian Personalized Psychological Flexibility Index (P-PPFI): Psychometric properties in a general population sample of Iranians3
Randomized-controlled trial examining differing content of ABA therapy delivered to autistic children3
Behaving versus thinking positively: When the benefits of cognitive reappraisal are contingent on satisfying basic psychological needs3
Enhancing supervisory relationships with values and committed action training3
Increasing workforce psychological flexibility through organization-wide training: Influence on stress resilience, job burnout, and performance3
A systematic review of null hypothesis significance testing, sample sizes, and statistical power in research using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure3
Profiles of psychological flexibility in Japan: A conceptual replication2
The effect and mechanism of acceptance and commitment therapy for young adults’ appearance-based rejection sensitivity and social comparison based on appearances: A randomized controlled trial2
Development of an acceptance based PrEP intervention (ACTPrEP) to engage young black MSM in the South utilizing the Adaptome Model of intervention adaptation2
Ecological momentary assessment of state fluctuations in mindfulness and symptoms in psychotic disorders2
Training to code therapeutic interactions in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: The utility of a video-based Behavior Skills Training2
Acceptance and commitment therapy for couples: A systematic review and meta-analysis2
Evaluating the core processes of a hybrid trauma-informed acceptance and commitment therapy intervention for college students2
Contextual-compassion training for borderline personality disorder with long lasting symptoms: A randomized clinical trial2
The effect of DNA-V model intervention on learning behaviors and stress in Chinese adolescents: A randomized controlled trial2
Engagement with mental health and health behavior change interventions: An integrative review of key concepts2
Virtual reality acceptance and commitment therapy intervention for social and public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial2
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for inpatients with psychosis –an acceptability and feasibility single case AB designed study2
A randomized controlled trial comparing two guided self-help Acceptance and Commitment Therapy formats to education on pain2
An exploratory analysis of gender stereotyping using the theoretical framework of relational density theory2
An acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness group intervention for the psychological and physical well-being of adults with body mass indexes in the overweight or obese range: The Mind&Li2
Age differences in acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain2
Low standards yet disappointed: ADHD symptoms and experiential avoidance in college students2
Understanding suicidal ideation through psychological flexibility and inflexibility: A network analysis perspective2
The efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in promoting resilience: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials2
Examining psychological flexibility in unaccompanied refugee minors: A network analysis2
Training temporal relational framing in young children2
Associations of interpersonal and intrapersonal emotion regulation strategies to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts2
Acceptance and commitment therapy for insomnia and sleep quality: A systematic review and meta-analysis2
Transparency and reproducibility in the journal of contextual behavioral science: An audit study2
Suicide is my only way: The longitudinal reciprocal relations of experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and suicidal ideation among adolescents2
Perspective taking reduces the correspondence bias: A systematically replication of Hooper et al. (2015)2
Using a natural-language implicit relational assessment procedure (IRAP) to examine verbal relations involved in psychological inflexibility in children.2
Exploring psychological flexibility as in-treatment behaviour during internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for paediatric chronic pain: Occurrence and relation to outcome2
Global and LMIC insights into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): A bibliometric study from 1998 to 20232
Mindfulness, parenting behavior, and children's mental health: An investigation among diverse, low-income mothers of preschool aged children2
Combining acceptance and commitment therapy with adventure therapy to face vulnerability: Examples and insights from a sailing experience2
Corrigendum to “Feasibility and effect of a self-help online acceptance and commitment therapy program focused on repetitive negative thinking for Colombian young women” [Journal of Contextual Behavio2
The relationship between psychosis and psychological flexibility and other acceptance and commitment therapy processes: A systematic review and meta-analysis2
Linking process to outcome in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Evaluating the behavioral mechanism of change of a process-based therapy2
“Becoming a values-driven self-care user”: Development of a group intervention for health and helping professional students2
Practice matters: The role of mindfulness skills in emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder2
The differences between acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and cognitive behavioral therapy: A three-level meta-analysis2
Effectiveness of an abbreviated version of the automated attention training technique (ATT) for stress reduction in a non-clinical sample—A randomized controlled trial2
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A psychometric validation of contextual cognitive behavioral therapy-informed measures with racially and ethnically diverse adults2
The theoretical basis of a functional-descriptive approach to qualitative research in CBS: With a focus on narrative analysis and practice2
How do people with acquired brain injury interpret the Valued Living Questionnaire? A cognitive interviewing study2
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