Hey RFT Listservers- Here is a snapshot of a conversation Darin Cairns and I have been having. That despite its scattered nature might be interesting for the...
ACBS is launching a new and exciting program to allow the formation of chapters and special interest groups. Chapters can be defined at any level of geography...
Steven Hayes
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Feb 8, 2009 3:22 am
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Dear list, This is great! I think this possibility will function perfectly to reach out to people interested in ACT and RFT in Italy and to prompt the...
Anyone want to tackle a SIG a contextual science approach to education with me? In my current vision, this SIG would entail all things educational from early...
While roaming around the ACBS website I happened to revisit a page on the research base of RFT. I have attached the list below. I thought it was pretty cool....
Steven Hayes
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Feb 11, 2009 8:18 pm
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I was also disappointed by Kurt Salzinger's lack of awareness of existing RFT research and definitions of ACT strategies and terms. And if I wasn't so...
Maybe it does not matter if we convince the senior behavior analysts. It is sad, though, I agree. Not convincing the seniors is not the same as not having an...
Good morning all and thank you Steve for posting this! To those who know little of ABA and its embattled past and present, I feel it necessary to point out...
I am with you on this, Niklas. With respect to Kurt Salzinger's contribution in the Behavior Therapist I am not that pessimistic. For one, a time ago I heard...
Hi all, Due to some required software upgrades on my web servers, my Relational Frame Theory (RFT) tutorial was no longer functioning correctly. To correct...
As of this minute there are 1999 members of ACBS. Let's take a moment and acknowledge the progress ... and someone quick ... go push us over 2000! - S Steven...
Steven Hayes
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Feb 17, 2009 12:40 am
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Also worth noting: Of the 1999 member of ACBS 51% are outside the US. We truly are a world community ... and when I finally step down and Frank Bond takes over...
Steven Hayes
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Feb 17, 2009 12:49 am
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That's awesome! Makes me want to go get a second ACBS membership... And speaking of all those white guys who have been president of ACBS - the annual...
FYI ... very interesting - S Steven C. Hayes Foundation Professor Department of Psychology /298 University of Nevada Reno, NV 89557-0062 hayes@... or...
Steven Hayes
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Feb 17, 2009 8:35 pm
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Thinking of some of the discussion recently regaring issues biological, I composed this snippet for a chapter I am working on this morning. Behavior analysis...
Kelly Wilson
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Feb 22, 2009 3:33 pm
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Hi Kelly, Exactly. Well said! I'll indulge in a little Sunday morning commentary, maybe more from my feelings than anything new... We simply do not know. One...
RE: "Thanks, Kelly, for contributing to free us up from these man-made limits..." And the WOMAN-made limits!? :) Hank ________________________________________ ...
There is always, always the fire in your hair to put out. But sometimes it is worth taking a moment, coming to rest, and noticing blessings. I was blessed in...
Kelly Wilson
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Feb 25, 2009 1:54 pm
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Hi folks, I'm looking for a home for a paper on attentional bias for experimentally induced threat (through CO2-enriched air inhalations). It would fit well in...
It's time for the fourth annual ACBS election.and before the election first the nomination of candidates. The ACBS board includes a president, president-elect,...
A small group of we ACT therapists in Chicagoland have been meeting for peer case consultation... There is some interest in starting a midwestern ACBS...
Yeah… believability’s something that I’ve been curious about… The RFT book called believability “a kind of proxy variable” for the probability of ...
Hello All, I'm really happy to hear this being discussed. I approach this holding an interesting blend of curiosity and embarassment, but I've never fully...
I do not think believability is a proxy for action. I think _movement_ in believability is a proxy for flexibility in your interactions with that thought. By...
Kelly Wilson
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Mar 6, 2009 3:36 pm
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Hi All, Well, I want to follow Kelly’s lead on this. And I stuck several of the responses together below just so they’d be together. First let me note that...
Hi Hank, Thanks for your response, If I understand you correctly this would mean that 'languaging' (speaking, thinking, writing, listening, reporting about...
Nominations for open positions on the ACBS board were due on Wednesday (tomorrow, or pehaps Wednesday already to those of you on the continent of Australia!)....
Hello all, I am trying to form a special interest group at ABA:I on behavior analysis and Robotics. I believe that the age of the personal robot will soon be...