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Kurt Tunagur support for acceptance based treatment of Misophonia

Kurt Tunagur et al. (2025) administered the A-MISO-S, DASS-21, and CERQ-SF to 200 Turkish medical students and identified low acceptance as a stronger predictor of misophonia severity in males and putting into perspective as a stronger predictor in females. They recommended acceptance-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for males to reduce resistance to distressing internal experiences, and emotion-focused approaches such as Emotion Regulation Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or self-compassion training for females when putting into perspective reflects emotional minimization rather than adaptive reappraisal. The authors concluded that misophonia-specific therapies (sound desensitization, trigger exposure with response prevention) could be augmented with these cognitive-affective components, with CERQ-based individualized assessment guiding treatment selection (Kurt Tunagur et al., 2025).