Online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Chronic Pain in Sample of People With Chiari Malformation

"The intervention includes 8 modules (i.e, Away Moves, Letting Go of Control, Noticing Hooks, Stepping Back, Your Values, How You Want to Act, Goal Setting, and Making Commitments). Away Moves and Letting Go of Control, helps establish creative hopelessness, where one abandons futile struggles against negative internal experiences and accepts new solutions. These two modules also help identify experiential avoidance and focus on acceptance. Noticing Hooks and Stepping Back focus on defusion, self as context, and mindfulness. While, mindfulness is overtly addressed in the module Stepping Back it is weaved through each module. Your Values and How You Want to Act focus on helping participants identify their values. Goal Setting and Making Commitments focus on committed action. Each module ends with a practice assignment which participants are asked to engage in over the next week."