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Notas: The objective of this work is to carry out a review of the literature to examine the existing evidence on the efficacy of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). For this, a search of scientific research published through different databases such as Web of Science, Scopus, PubMED, Academic Search and ScienceDirect was carried out. The search engine added the terms “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” AND “Major Depressive Disorder”. The main inclusion criteria were that they were articles published between 2010 and 2021 and in which the main disorder was MDD. Following the search and filtering procedure, 16 articles were collected for analysis. In 11 of these studies, ACT was found to be effective in reducing depressive symptoms, while in the remaining five studies, both ACT and cognitive behavioral therapy were found to be equally effective in reducing depression. Furthermore, in 7 of the 16 articles, psychological flexibility variables were used as process variables and the result shows us that increasing psychological flexibility is closely related to a decrease in depressive symptoms. Key words: major depressive disorder, acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy