Hello all, I am in the process of attempting to form a behavioral medicine SIG at ABA. I made the SIG application on-line, but need 10 ABA members of ABA to...
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Jan 5, 2006 9:25 pm
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The prepublication issue of BAT 6.4 is now available online at www.behavior-analyst-online.org Joe...
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Jan 6, 2006 6:35 pm
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Hello all, The prepublication issue of BAT 6.4 is now available online at www.behavior-analyst-online.org Joe...
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Jan 6, 2006 6:44 pm
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In the recent journal of Behavior Analyst Baron and Galizio make the point that despite efforts by such luminaries such as Catania, Sidman and Skinner, the...
Some thoughts. Sorry if this is a little incoherent. I recently read Jack Michael's Concepts and Principles of Behavior Analysis. The last chapter is about...
No doubt you can always flip positive and negative vebally and logically. The problem I have with the Michael / Malott etc take is that it treats scientific...
Hello, all. I am attempting to compile a list of child/adolescent/parent RFT and/or ACT-related research and researchers to see what we might be able to bring ...
Thought folks might be interested in list serve activity over the last year. Here are the data on the number of members and the number of messages at the end...
Behavioral Medicine SIG Chair: Joseph D. Cautilli (Childrens Crisis Treatment Center/St. Joseph's University) 5/29/2006 7:00 pm – 7:50 pm University...
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Jan 12, 2006 3:15 pm
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I've attached an article by Martha Beck in the current (Feb) issue of Oprah's "O" magazine about ACT (it is also posted, scanned badly, at the end of this...
If you are a clinician reading this post, I need just a moment of your time about something serious and really quite urgent. The ACT message is going to hit...
Hi everyone, If you've been dying to know if there are any ACBS Members or ACT Therapists in Aguascalientes, Mexico or Zaandam, the Netherlands (or in any...
I wonder whether there is a nice metaphor to explain the difference in the two aspects of mindfulness: Being present on one hand and the observer self on the...
Hi Bill-- My take on this is that there isn't a difference that needs to be explained--the observer perspective is simply a place you can notice yourself...
It don't think observer perspective is "a place you can notice yourself observing the present from." If you are noticing you are observing from someplace, from...
Steve-- I agree--certainly, from a technical perspective (which generally happens to be my favorite perspective when talking about stuff) the "observer...
Hi Steve, I agree entirely with what you are saying about our need actively to court the popular media. My partner is a journalist and news producer for the ...
I hope this doesn't mean Steve Hayes is going on Oprah. Steve M. ... From: acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy@yahoogroups.com ...
Steve Mahorney
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Jan 27, 2006 2:29 pm
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Believe it or not, I think this is exactly what we need to do. Getting on Oprah would be a coup. I think we can offer something to the millions of people in...
Yeah, but look what happened to poor James Frey. Oprah can turn on you! And she thinks "the truth" is real. ... From:...
Steve Mahorney
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Jan 27, 2006 3:04 pm
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Well, I suppose that could happen. Part of the game. Nothing a little defusion couldn't handle :) -j John P. Forsyth, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology...
I agree. And although I know Oprah was just an example, for what it is worth... I Tivo the Oprah show every day. I have seen almost every episode in the last...
I am glad to finally see that this discussion is being taken seriously. I have said in many posts, it is the responsibility of scientists to make their...
I agree that effective dissemination of our work into the larger culture is vital for large-scale impact. It is particularly important if we are interested in...
Here is the problem Assumptions The assumption of contextualism is holistic. You could say "realistic" and that would be fine provided you do not mean to...
Attention students or others new to ACT/RFT: I am wondering if you have questions for the "biggies" that you have never asked. I imagine that quiet people may...
Functional contextualism is hard to get, because it differs strikingly from the vast majority of philosophical positions. It differs in its epistemological...
Kelly Wilson
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Jan 31, 2006 2:15 am
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I am writing an invited piece for Rehabilitation Psych. on ACT and RFT as a framework for approaching problems seen in rehabilitation. I noticed someone doing...
Kelly Wilson
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Feb 2, 2006 3:47 pm
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Hi Kara, it could be argued I'm being overly pedantic. By "Americans" do you include Brazilians, do you include those of the equally horrific phrase, western...