Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Truce: Outcomes and mechanisms of change of a seven-week acceptance and commitment therapy program for young people whose parent has cancer105
A fresh lens on psychological flexibility: Using network analysis and the Unified Flexibility and Mindfulness Model to uncover paths to wellbeing and distress46
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 development43
Remediating rigid rule-following in subclinical obsessive-compulsive disorder using a brief mindfulness task: A case-control pilot study42
Mindfulness and cognitive emotion regulation in pediatric misophonia36
Corrigendum to “Contextual-compassion training for borderline personality with long lasting symptoms: A randomized clinical trial” [Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 34 (2024) 2–10/100846]33
Cognitive fusion and treatment response to depression in caregivers of relatives with dementia.32
Psychological flexibility and the Eudaimonic Activity Model: Testing associations among psychological flexibility, need satisfaction, and subjective well-being32
The Mindful Healthcare Scale (MHS): Development and initial validation29
Existential therapies and the extended evolutionary meta-model: Turning existential philosophy into process-based therapy29
An online contextual schema therapy workshop for social anxiety symptoms – A randomized controlled trial29
Community Initiated Care: A blue-print for the practical realization of contextual behavioral science26
The relation of grit to weight loss maintenance outcomes25
An acceptance and commitment therapy-based intervention for opioid use disorder risk in individuals with cancer: A treatment development study24
A multi-sample investigation of psychological flexibility processes and reactive and proactive functions of aggression24
A call for ACTion: A systematic review of empirical evidence for the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with LGBTQI+ individuals23
Predicting sleep quality and insomnia severity using the components of the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) model: A new perspective23
Examining item content across nine psychological (in)flexibility scales: What do they measure?22
Effects of workplace acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) programs on psychological flexibility's subprocesses: A systematic review21
A mixed methods study investigating alexithymia, experiential avoidance, and psychological distress: Insights into men with high externally oriented thinking21
Editorial Board20
Changes in university students’ behaviour and study burnout risk during ACT-based online course intervention: A mixed methods study20
Examining the effects of process-based therapy: A multiple baseline study20
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 119
The ACT trained physical therapist: Psychologically flexible, resilient, and armed with evidence-based tools17
The interplay among BMI, body dissatisfaction, body appreciation, and body image inflexibility in Chinese young adults: A network perspective17
Ensuring interdisciplinary partnerships and commitment to Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS) principles among diverse scholars who serve diverse communities17
The importance of idiographic and functionally analytic strategies in the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders17
Health, well-being, and persisting symptoms in the pandemic: What is the role of psychological flexibility?16
Exploring the contribution of psychological flexibility processes and self-compassion to depression, anxiety and adjustment in parents of preterm infants16
Associations of psychological inflexibility with posttraumatic stress disorder and adherence to COVID-19 control measures among refugees in Uganda: The moderating role of coping strategies15
Investigating the delivery of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) smartphone app intervention on symptomology in adult IBS patients: A feasibility study15
Efficacy of ACT for parents of children with special health care needs: Preliminary findings from Malaysia15
Perspectives on an integrated acceptance and commitment therapy and mindfulness meditation program: A qualitative study of veterans with chronic pain15
Stress and mental health: The role of emotional schemas and psychological flexibility in the context of COVID-1914
The effect of brief acceptance and commitment training on values-based behaviors of Japanese parents of children with autism14
Further validation of the 18-item Portuguese CompACT scale using a multi-sample design: Confirmatory factor analysis and correlates of psychological flexibility14
Psychometric properties of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y8) in socioeconomically disadvantaged Chilean adolescents14
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for women living with Vulvodynia: A single-case experimental design study of a treatment delivered online13
Exploring the role of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance in predicting smartphone use among medical university students13
Measuring psychological flexibility: The cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the AAQ for substance abuse among Spanish speaking population in correctional and community settings13
Perceptions and experiences of acceptance and commitment therapy among people with mental disorders: A qualitative systematic review13
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 modelling13
Implementing the ACBS task force agenda13
Brief transdiagnostic group Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for acute inpatients with complex mental health conditions: A randomised pilot study using an active social control12
ACT in the workplace: A meta-analytic examination of randomized controlled trials12
Estimating the effect of basic behavioral processes (access to reinforcers and experiential avoidance) on emotional disorders as transdiagnostic variables: A systematic review12
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder in a Brazilian context: Treatment of three cases11
Physiological, behavioral, and self-report outcomes of acceptance- and regulation-based exposure for intrusive thoughts11
Gender differences in multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation: The mediating role of pain acceptance11
The effect of acceptance and commitment therapy on the psychological flexibility and inflexibility of undergraduate students: A systematic review and three-level meta-analysis11
Acceptance and commitment training for reducing burnout in medical students during a clinical clerkship in psychiatry and palliative care: A pilot study11
Is the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory Short Form valid for ecological momentary assessment? A preliminary psychometric investigation11
A systematic review of inclusion of minoritized populations in randomized controlled trials of acceptance and commitment therapy11
Exploring the effectiveness of mindfulness-based and third wave interventions in addressing self-stigma, shame and their impacts on psychosocial functioning: A systematic review11
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 trial11
Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of personalized psychological flexibility index (C-PPFI) in college students11
Effectiveness of ACT-based intervention in compliance with the model for sustainable mental health: A cluster randomized control trial in a group of older adults10
Corrigendum to ‘Is the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory Short Form valid for ecological momentary assessment? A preliminary psychometric investigation’ [Journal of Contextual Behav10
Magis – A magical adventure: Using a mobile game to deliver an ACT intervention for elementary schoolchildren in classroom settings10
The relation between ADHD symptoms and alcohol and cannabis use outcomes in a cross-sectional study of college students: The mediating role of experiential avoidance10
Editorial Board10
Mechanisms of change in an Internet-Based ACT study for depression in China10
Using the ACT matrix to improve sleep: A practical guide for implementing the "what" and the "how" of sleep hygiene10
Verbal relations in the context of university experience: An exploratory analysis using a relational density theoretical framework and case example10
Editorial Board10
Evidence and characteristics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based interventions for insomnia: A systematic review of randomized and non-randomized trials10
Assessing psychological inflexibility in text: An examination of the inflexitext program10
Processes of change in online acceptance and commitment therapy for hoarding10
Shared trauma: Examining the moderating role of parental psychological flexibility and self-compassion on PTSD and distress in refugee families9
The effect of SMART relational skills training on intelligence quotients: Controlling for individual differences in attentional skills and baseline IQ9
Contextual approach to emotional and psychological support for Malaysian adolescents: Feasibility and pilot outcomes9
The Turkish validation of the short form of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire (AFQ-Y8): Factor structure, measurement invariance, and incremental validity9
The moderating effects of psychological flexibility and psychological inflexibility on the relationship between climate concern and climate-related distress9
From mistakes to mastery: An idiographic microanalytical study comparing processes related to effective and ineffective outcomes in behavioral interventions9
Distinct pathways to well-being: Exploring valued action and mood among stoics and non-stoics9
Executive functioning and relational framing in verbal adults9
Exploring the role of contextual behavioural science variables and education in the prosocial domain of global poverty and human rights8
Food Thought Suppression Inventory: Item response theory and measurement invariance in Portuguese adults8
Effects of an ACT-based intervention on university students’ self-compassion and psychological well-being8
Targeting social connection in the context of Trauma: Functional outcomes and mechanisms of change8
Introducing article numbering to Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science8
Symbolic or derived generalization of fear and avoidance in humans: A systematic review8
Caring for someone with an acquired brain injury: The role of psychological flexibility8
Limited effects of phone coaching in an RCT of online self-guided acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain8
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 analysis8
Minority stress, mental health, and mindfulness and self-compassion as moderators among young sexual minority men: A moderated structural equation analysis7
On the measurement of relational responding7
Telehealth acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescents with transdiagnostic health-related anxiety: A pilot randomized controlled trial7
Taking ACTion for anxiety and depression: A pilot study of a brief virtual Acceptance and commitment therapy group in primary care7
Measurement invariance and discriminant validity of the Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire across five Spanish-speaking countries7
Smartphone app-delivered Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for post-traumatic stress disorder and gambling harm in veterans: A pilot feasibility study7
Forwarding the ACBS Task Force recommendations: The case for the functional-cognitive framework and out-of-sample prediction7
The impact of psychological flexibility on family dynamics amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal perspective7
Effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy for addictive behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis7
A call for qualitative research in Contextual Behavioral Science7
Through the extended evolutionary meta-model, and what ACT found there: ACT as a process-based therapy7
The impact of functional class and depressive symptomatology on rule-based insensitivity7
Toward empirical process-based case conceptualization: An idionomic network examination of the process-based assessment tool7
A systematic review and narrative synthesis of the complex interplay between psychological flexibility and sleep health7
Content validity and perceived utility of a self-help online acceptance and commitment therapy program focused on repetitive negative thinking7
Diversity-related factors in research mentorship and publishing in the ACBS community and the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science6
Advancing the assessment of psychological flexibility: Development and validation of a novel context-sensitive measure in people with chronic physical illness6
The CompACT-10: Development and validation of a Comprehensive assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes short-form in representative UK samples6
Oncovox: A randomised controlled trial of a web-based acceptance and commitment therapy for breast cancer patients6
Psychological inflexibility in terms of eating behaviors among individuals seeking treatment for comorbid affective vulnerabilities and weight-related behaviors6
Web-based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for adults with type 1 diabetes: A single case experimental design (SCED)6
Intensive outpatient acceptance and commitment therapy with exposure and response prevention for adolescents6
“Finding your values is important. You only die once.” - Analysing goal-talk in incarcerated adolescents struggling with substance use from a Relational Frame Theory perspective6
Applying concepts of relational density theory to climate related consumer behavior: A contextual extension study6
Group acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescent anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis6
Third wave behavioral interventions for individuals with Dementia: A systematic review6
Emotion dysregulation and psychological inflexibility in adolescents: Discriminant validity and associations with internalizing symptoms and functional impairment6
In the shadow of COVID-19: A randomized controlled online ACT trial promoting adolescent psychological flexibility and self-compassion5
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) among U.S. veterans: A systematic review5
Disentangling trait and state psychological inflexibility: A longitudinal multilevel approach5
Measurement of psychological flexibility in the context of parenting: A scoping review5
Struggles and solutions in psychological research with unaccompanied minors: Reflections from the field5
A pilot randomized controlled trial of culturally-adapted, telehealth group acceptance and commitment therapy for Iranian adolescent females reporting symptoms of anxiety5
Supporting employers and their employees with mental hEalth conditions to remain eNgaged and producTive at wORk (MENTOR): A feasibility randomised controlled trial5
Emotion regulation and memory in response to a trauma analogue: An online experimental comparison of humor and acceptance5
Initial steps in developing acceptance and commitment therapy for moral injury among combat veterans: Two pilot studies5
Values matter in approach behaviors: A replication using contamination anxiety behavioral approach tasks5
Attachment, emotion, and change: Emotionally focused individual therapy (EFIT) within a process-based therapy (PBT) framework5
The relationship between parental stress and psychological adjustment of the children: The role of parental psychological flexibility as a mediator5
Exploring the interpersonal consequences of adverse childhood experiences in college students5
Developing an item pool to assess processes of change in psychological interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT)5
Psychometric properties of the Psy-flex scale: A validation study in a community sample in Korea5
The effects of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on psychological and physical outcomes among cancer patients and survivors: An umbrella review5
Confucian-informed ACT for psychological flexibility, mental health, and sleep in college students: A randomized controlled trial5
Optimizing process-based therapy: A Boruta-driven approach to Identifying key clinical outcomes in a Swedish validation of the process-based assessment tool (PBAT)5
Masculinity, social connection, and loneliness: A contextual behavioral science approach to men's social relationships and intimacy5
On the structure of relational responding5
The development and validation of the experiential avoidance rating scale (EARS): A self-report questionnaire that might actually measure experiential avoidance5
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 trial4
Characterizing the effects of self-compassion interventions on anxiety: Meta-analytic evidence from randomized controlled studies4
Momentary appraisals of uncontrollable and unpredictable events predict caregiver well-being: Evidence from an experience sampling study4
Mindful self-compassion program adapted for professional caregivers of juvenile detention facilities: A pilot mixed-method study4
A systematic review of null hypothesis significance testing, sample sizes, and statistical power in research using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure4
Is giving receiving? The influence of autonomy on the association between prosocial behavior and well-being4
Using group-based interactive video teleconferencing to make self-compassion more accessible: A randomized controlled trial4
Acceptance and commitment therapy in parents of children with cancer at psychosocial risk: A randomized multiple baseline evaluation4
The current status of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in Iran: A systematic narrative review4
Functional connectivity correlates of psychological flexibility: A resting-state fMRI study of the default mode and dorsal attention networks4
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 trial4
Weight stigma and healthcare avoidance among women with obesity: The moderating roles of body image-related psychological inflexibility and cognitive fusion4
Intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) offers unique procedures for acceptance of emotion and may contribute to the process-based therapy movement4
Experiential avoidance in depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive related, and posttraumatic stress disorders: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis4
Applied knowledge of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Developing and assessing the utility of a Situational Judgement Test (SJT)4
Suicidality, gender identity-related stressors, and psychological flexibility among transgender and non-binary adults4
The relative importance of transdiagnostic factors associated with problematic smartphone use4
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for pediatric chronic non-cancer pain: A systematic review4
Latent profiles of processes in acceptance and commitment therapy and their associations with eating disorder symptoms among adult women4
Enhancing supervisory relationships with values and committed action training4
Acceptability of ACT group intervention for adolescents with type 1 diabetes4
Acceptability of an adapted mindfulness and acceptance-based intervention to support adolescents with HIV: A qualitative study with Ugandan health care providers4
Increasing workforce psychological flexibility through organization-wide training: Influence on stress resilience, job burnout, and performance4
The experiences of family caregiver and clinician facilitators implementing a co-delivered acceptance and commitment training (ACT) intervention3
The relationship between psychosis and psychological flexibility and other acceptance and commitment therapy processes: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
Heavy drinking and psychological intimate partner aggression (IPA): The interactive effects of experiential avoidance and trait anger3
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 Behavio3
ACT and the Kyoto School of Philosophy:Interdisciplinary dialogues on personhood, ethics, and becoming3
Self-compassion buffers the effects of perfectionistic self-presentation on social media on wellbeing3
Assessing acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescent mental health: Single-case A-B design with high temporal density assessments3
Ecological momentary assessment of state fluctuations in mindfulness and symptoms in psychotic disorders3
The theoretical basis of a functional-descriptive approach to qualitative research in CBS: With a focus on narrative analysis and practice3
The efficacy of mindfulness-based interventions in promoting resilience: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials3
Acceptance and commitment therapy for couples: A systematic review and meta-analysis3
Mindfulness, parenting behavior, and children's mental health: An investigation among diverse, low-income mothers of preschool aged children3
Randomized-controlled trial examining differing content of ABA therapy delivered to autistic children3
Perspective taking reduces the correspondence bias: A systematically replication of Hooper et al. (2015)3
Confirmatory factor analysis of the Comprehensive Assessment of acceptance and Commitment Therapy (CompACT) in active-duty military personnel3
Practice matters: The role of mindfulness skills in emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder3
Behaving versus thinking positively: When the benefits of cognitive reappraisal are contingent on satisfying basic psychological needs3
A randomized controlled trial comparing two guided self-help Acceptance and Commitment Therapy formats to education on pain3
An idiographic comparison of ACT focused on repetitive negative thinking versus non-directive therapy in child generalized anxiety3
Global and LMIC insights into Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): A bibliometric study from 1998 to 20233
Examining psychological flexibility in unaccompanied refugee minors: A network analysis3
Profiles of psychological flexibility in Japan: A conceptual replication3
Commentary: Person-specific, multivariate, and dynamic analytic approaches to actualize ACBS task force recommendations for contextual behavioral science3
Training to code therapeutic interactions in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: The utility of a video-based Behavior Skills Training3
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&Li3
Impact of Acceptance and Commitment Training on psychological flexibility and burnout in medical education3
Understanding suicidal ideation through psychological flexibility and inflexibility: A network analysis perspective3
The role of psychological flexibility in palliative care3
Evaluating the core processes of a hybrid trauma-informed acceptance and commitment therapy intervention for college students3
Truce: Feasibility and acceptability of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy-based intervention for adolescents and young adults impacted by parental cancer3
Exploring psychological flexibility as in-treatment behaviour during internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for paediatric chronic pain: Occurrence and relation to outcome3
Low standards yet disappointed: ADHD symptoms and experiential avoidance in college students3
Linking process to outcome in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy: Evaluating the behavioral mechanism of change of a process-based therapy3
Development of an acceptance based PrEP intervention (ACTPrEP) to engage young black MSM in the South utilizing the Adaptome Model of intervention adaptation3
Consumer co-design as a framework for enhancing a novel self-guided online program to reduce overconsumption3
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