Table 1

Description of the content in the acceptance and commitment therapy-based stress-management intervention

Session 1Stress and acceptance. What is possible to change and what needs to be accepted?
Session 2The language. Avoiding thoughts and feelings.
Thoughts can cause suffering. Mindfulness.
Session 3Values clarification: What is important to me in life?
How do I want to live my life?
Session 4Values clarification, continuation:
obstacles, language, thoughts, feelings and rules.
Session 5To live the life I want: identification of values in to increase value-based actions.
Session 6How thinking can cause pain and suffering
Cognitive defusion and psychological flexibility.
Session 7To keep going: compassion, communication and repetition