contextual behavioral therapies are linked to basic research that help change and improve the treatment and training procedures of contextual therapists. Currently the proposal to conceptualize therapies in the community of contextual behavioral sciences is changing from the perspective of therapeutic procedures to the perspective by therapeutic processes.

therapeutic processes are the mechanisms of underlying change that lead to obtaining a treatment target. A therapeutic process -based training facilitates a better understanding of the procedures applied in therapy, because it directly links treatment to theory, and as a result increases the accuracy, reach, efficacy and efficiency of therapists, to relieve problems and promote life improvement from People (Hayes & Hofmann, 2018).

contextual behavioral therapies help change and improve therapist treatment and training procedures. In addition to learning clinical behavior analysis, functional analysis in a context, contextual behavioral therapies involve the following approaches:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT);
• Relational frame theory (RFT);
• Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT);
• Behavioral activation therapy (BA);
• Mindfulness-based interventions;
• Functional Analytical Psychotherapy (FAP);
• Couple Integrative Behavioral Therapy (IBCT);
• Compassion-focused therapy (CFT);

in order to enable professionals to use evidence-based therapeutic processes linked to therapeutic procedures to help solve customer problems and favor a valuable life.

Coordination

José Ignácio Cruz Gaitán and Mara Lins