Motivation from the perspective of contextual cognitive behavioral approaches and the psychological flexibility model

TY - CHAP

T1 - Motivation from the perspective of contextual cognitive behavioral approaches and the psychological flexibility model

AU - McCracken, Lance M.

AU - Scott, Whitney

PY - 2018/8/23

Y1 - 2018/8/23

N2 - In everyday uses, the term motivation may imply a kind of mechanistic, "inside" the person, type of process. Contextual approaches, on the other hand, adopt an evolutionary perspective on motivation that emphasizes the selection of behavior patterns through the joint actions of historical consequences and verbal or cognitive processes, themselves considered the product of the same contextual processes of selection by consequences. The contextual focus on building, maintaining, and elaborating behavior patterns from directly manipulable contextual features enables a focus on variables that are able to serve the purpose of prediction and influence over behavior. Current studies of these processes apply the psychological flexibility model, including its processes of values-based and committed action. Laboratory studies of these processes demonstrate their potential importance in healthy functioning in relation to chronic pain. Treatment studies, including studies of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), also demonstrate that enhancing these motivation-related processes has clinical utility.

AB - In everyday uses, the term motivation may imply a kind of mechanistic, "inside" the person, type of process. Contextual approaches, on the other hand, adopt an evolutionary perspective on motivation that emphasizes the selection of behavior patterns through the joint actions of historical consequences and verbal or cognitive processes, themselves considered the product of the same contextual processes of selection by consequences. The contextual focus on building, maintaining, and elaborating behavior patterns from directly manipulable contextual features enables a focus on variables that are able to serve the purpose of prediction and influence over behavior. Current studies of these processes apply the psychological flexibility model, including its processes of values-based and committed action. Laboratory studies of these processes demonstrate their potential importance in healthy functioning in relation to chronic pain. Treatment studies, including studies of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), also demonstrate that enhancing these motivation-related processes has clinical utility.

KW - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

KW - ACT

KW - Committed action

KW - Contextual focus

KW - Psychological flexibility

KW - Values

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058550771&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780190627898.003.0014

DO - 10.1093/oso/9780190627898.003.0014

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85058550771

SN - 9780190627898

SP - 511

EP - 536

BT - Motivational Perspectives on Chronic Pain

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -