Third-wave cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) distinguishes between ways of responding to negative affect. Suppression and avoidance are associated with greater behavioral harm, whereas noticing and acknowledging negative emotion can support better clinical trajectories, longer-term reductions in negative affect, and improved emotion regulation.

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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

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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