In terms of acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain based on ACT

Acceptance and Adhesion-based Treatment (ACT), is one of the Third Wave cognitive-behavioral approaches in which give emphasis on control of controllable aspects and acceptance of uncontrollable aspects, although chronic pain often is mention as a pain which cause disability and affects on all aspects of patients life. However, from the Acceptance and Adhesion-based Treatment view point, many of problems which are due to suffering from pain don’t have result from their pain directly, but these problems occur as a result of a psychological flexibility. According to this view, there are six main factors that are related to each other and root in a verbal process involving forming mental flexibility in patients with chronic pain problems. These factors are as follow, experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, lack of clear values, past or future instead of present time, and dependence to perceived “self”.