Acceptance is a concept of affect which is characterized by a willingness to experience affect without the impulse to escape, avoid or constrain the emotional impact of the experience. Acceptance involves an active embrace of learning from experiences.

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Third wave CBT includes additional concepts of affective processes, which focus on how an individual interacts with their emotions in the context of openness to affect, willingness to deeply engage in experiences and the ability to learn from emotional experience. Affective processes are strongly connected with acceptance, the most widely supported process of affect, including self-compassion, self- kindness and distress tolerance.

Psychological process change: Affect

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"Third-wave” cognitive and behavioral therapies and the emergence of a process-based approach to intervention in psychiatry

Acceptance

 Negative affect that sets off processes of suppression and avoidance are known to be most behaviorally harmful, whereas negative affect that facilitates the capacity to notice and acknowledge negative emotion can result in positive clinical trajectories, thusly reducing negative affect in the long run and instrumental in managing emotional regulation

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