ACT Assessment & Functional Analysis 3

Question 1

A clinician conducting an ACT functional assessment asks: 'What do you do when that feeling shows up?' This question is primarily designed to assess:

Accepted Answer

The client's behavioral response patterns and potential experiential avoidance

Answer

This question targets the function of the emotion — specifically what behavioral responses (often avoidant) are triggered when the private event occurs.

Question 2

The Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory (MPFI) differs from the AAQ-II in that it:

Accepted Answer

Measures both flexibility and inflexibility across the six ACT processes

Answer

The MPFI assesses both the flexible and inflexible poles of all six ACT hexaflex processes, providing a more comprehensive flexibility profile than the AAQ-II.

Question 3

When conducting a functional analysis of rumination in ACT, the therapist would MOST focus on:

Accepted Answer

The function rumination serves in relation to avoided emotional experiences

Answer

In ACT, rumination is understood functionally — it often serves as a control strategy to avoid direct contact with painful emotions, so its function is the primary focus.

Question 4

A client undergoing ACT assessment completes the Valuing Questionnaire (VQ). A high score on the 'obstruction' subscale indicates:

Accepted Answer

The client is frequently blocked from acting on their values by internal or external barriers

Answer

The VQ obstruction subscale measures the degree to which clients feel blocked from their values-based actions, often due to experiential avoidance or rigid thinking.

Question 5

In an ACT case conceptualization, identifying a client's 'core relational frame' serves to:

Accepted Answer

Clarify the verbal rules and self-narratives that maintain psychological inflexibility

Answer

Core relational frames are recurring verbal rules (e.g., 'I am broken') that, through cognitive fusion, rigidly organize behavior and maintain suffering.

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ACT Assessment & Functional Analysis 3