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...
I think a bit of defusion is called for here. As a US citizen, I've championed the notion that we should not refer to ourselves as Americans or our country as...
I am sending this note to the ACT and RFT list serves and to my lab and supervision team OK gang This should get interesting As of tomorrow, on your newstands,...
I think this is a very well-written and fair and balanced article. On parsimony, however. What is more parsimonious than a theory that accounts for most of...
Tony Biglan
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Feb 6, 2006 2:23 pm
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I have heard this critique from a variety of folks. I don't know that I make much of it coming from popular press, but it is always puzzling hearing it from a...
Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D.
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Feb 6, 2006 3:08 pm
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A few other bits to follow up on this thread. 1. I think many folks erroneously assume that complex problems require complex (or in current lingo,...
Re parsimony, my assumption is that the writer doesn't understand what parsimony means. The dictonary definition is "adoption of the simplest assumption in the...
Ian Stewart
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Feb 6, 2006 5:49 pm
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My guess is that the comment about parsimony stems from a basic misunderstanding of RFT. Once you get it, RFT is pretty simple stuff (I think). The book,...
Re parsimony, I don't understand the criticism and my first reaction is that the writer doesn't understand what parsimony means. The dictonary definition is...
Ian Stewart
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Feb 6, 2006 8:42 pm
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I think this thread is important and some of this discussion, both kudos and criticisms of the article, seem worth taking back to Time magazine. They accept...
Having once sat through a very useful lecture on ethnocentric geogrophy e.g. "Eastern" and "Western" as in excetly WHERE IS THE CENTER OF THE PLANET from which...
Hi everyone, ContextualPsychology.org appears to be down, most likely due to the increased traffic and server load generated by the reference to it in the Time...
The clock's ticking (at least on Marshall McLuhan's watch). The Time article ... Aspen, Colorado...
Jonathan Shamis
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Feb 7, 2006 9:13 pm
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Hi everyone, ContextualPsychology.org is back online. It turns out that the site went down because the server on which it is hosted experienced a disk failure...
This is to the behavior analysts on the lists. I was recently invited to do an ACT / RFT workshop at a behavior analytic convention (which one does not...
My god, this is painful to read. Send her a subscription to TIME. mike ... Michael J. Dougher, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Clinical training Interim...
Michael Dougher
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Feb 8, 2006 8:43 pm
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I have been pondering this very question, "would Steve qualify as a BCBA" (my guess has been-- unlikely-- unless there is some secret backdoor for publishing...
Rob Unruh
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Feb 8, 2006 8:55 pm
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is it possible to have licensure and/or certification that does not eventually devolve to some set of formalities? maybe the reason I have resisted...
Kelly Wilson
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Feb 8, 2006 8:59 pm
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A part of me wonders if this wasn't a matter of not knowing what ACT/RFT was, but rather a case of a hardcore circa 1957 Skinnerian trying to make a statement...
JT - actually, I think that this _is_ a good idea. if a stack of behavior analytic articles on ACT and RFT is not enough.....well, as I said....sheesh! kelly...
Kelly Wilson
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Feb 8, 2006 9:47 pm
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i ordered a copy yesterday at about mid-day and it was #457!! t ... This mail sent through https://webmail.unr.edu...
tweil@...
Feb 8, 2006 9:58 pm
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come on ya'll, this is not surprising. they didn't ask about the RFT aspect, they were wondering what the ACT part had to do with BCBA work. to be honest,...
tweil@...
Feb 8, 2006 10:23 pm
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Over the past 2 days I've watched Steve's book go from the 1,000 ish ranking on Amazon to its current ranking of about 55. His book is #5 of the best selling...
This is great news. Steve's buying lunch for all of us in London. :-) ... From: RFT@yahoogroups.com [mailto:RFT@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John P Forsyth ...
Tony Biglan
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Feb 9, 2006 12:03 am
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Some days I really wonder why I bother, and this is one of them! D. ... Dermot Barnes-Holmes Professor of Psychology and Head of Department Department of...
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
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Feb 9, 2006 9:44 am
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Think I'm doing a similar thing on RFT at that conference. Have not received anything re. BCBA. Maybe it was worth getting up today afterall. . . D. ... ...
Dermot Barnes-Holmes
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Feb 9, 2006 9:54 am
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... From: Shawn Boles Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 12:54 PM To: 'Dermot Barnes-Holmes'; acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy@yahoogroups.com; ...
Shawn Boles
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Feb 9, 2006 10:35 pm
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We just got through analyzing an obesity IAT using both the Greenwald's scoring algorithm (D_measure) for latency. We also computed participant fluency (#...
Jonathan Weinstein
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Feb 10, 2006 1:00 am
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Hi there all I'm currently putting a curriculum together for working with children with Autism and have been getting remarkable success using exemplar based...