Acceptance and commitment therapy for a young adult female with borderline personality features: A case study

Author: 
Tapolagna Das and Dr. Soheli Datta

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is one of the novel approaches that claim to help people live a meaningful life while also learning to accept and cope with the inevitable suffering of existence. This is one of the finest treatment approaches for patients suffering with various internalized difficulties like depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders, Borderline personality disorders etc. This study presents a case of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with a 22 year old Hindu Bengali female student with Borderline Personality features. Case conceptualization is followed by the identification of the requirements of strategies to overcome unhelpful ruminating thoughts and reducing emotional difficulties in different life-domains related to everyday thought, emotion and actions using valued actions and commitment to change. The study highlighted the journey from psychological inflexibility to valued living, following the application of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework.

Paper No: 
4290