If you missed J.T.'s teleconference: How is RFT Relevant to Clinical Psychologists? You're in luck! It's now available in the audio section of the ACBS website...
Re: The NPR story today on Shakespeare Had Roses All Wrong. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102518565 It is interesting that psychologies...
It's time for our annual ACBS board elections! Voting is open to ACBS members. Look for an email in the next day from ACBS executive director Emily Nielan ...
I goofed I am surprised I received only two emails correcting my errors in the ACBS elections ballot...in any case, there were two BIG errors (1) I listed last...
The ACBS Board is happy to announce that the second ACBS chapter has formed -- The Washington State Association for Contextual Behavioral Science The Board...
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ACBS voting is complete (almost) and our new board members are: President-elect: Robyn Walser Secretary Treasurer: Sonja Batten Board member at large slate #2:...
Awesome group ... congrats to the winners and thank you to all the candidates who ran. And good luck Taka and Carmen in the last round -- we cannot go wrong...
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In the spirit of the ACBS community, we'd like to encourage our members to submit proposals to bring the Annual Conference to your town, for the next 2 or 3...
Hi folks-Just wanted to announce the publication of a new ACT book: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy: Contemporary Theory, Research, and Practice. It's edited...
The runoff election for the last board member at large position is completed and the winner is Carmen Luciano. Congratualtions to our new board members: ...
(I have a strange compulsion that requires me to obtain ACT books) You too? Yay! I¹m not alone! Still waiting for the book to make its way to my shores ...
I'd like to announce the good news that by unanimous vote of the Board, ACBS has its first Special Interest Group. Very appropriately, the first ACBS SIG is...
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I'm reading the RFT book again these days and am wondering about my understanding of these words. When I have been teaching about learning processes, I've...
HI Chad-- Two things: When trying to decipher what "arbitrary" means in an RFT sense, (1) always remember that it's on the opposite side of the continuum of...
Awsome JT. That DID clear something up for me. Vijay Vijay Shankar, MBA, Psy.D Licensed Psychologist 10490 SW Eastridge Street, Suite 110-D Portland, OR 97225...
Thanks, J.T., that is helpful. That is not to say that I feel really clear about this just yet. Maybe I could tease out my confusion here by considering a...
Actually, Chad, I¹ms still swimming with you  perhaps because i took your online class! JT are you saying that there is a special class of Œarbitrary¹...
Hi Chad, JT and all, although I am far from being an expert in RFT I would like to put my thoughts on your question to the test. I begin with the end of the...
I like this place to swim so I'll join you. A few thoughts on Chads original questions and the use of the term arbitrary. About the arbitrariness of a...
Hi Chad, Niklas and all- Chad- Yes-I think this is another good example of how words can have different connotations for different people. To me, "abstract"...
I think Niklas is right -- direct training with the specific stimuli is also non-arbitrary. You can see what notion of "arbitrary" was in mind by reasoning...
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... Hi Steve- In the interest of helping me zero in on the precise limits of the similarities between "nonarbitrary & formal" and "arbitrary & abstract" (I've...
Any contingency is a relation. This is from the Hayes, 1994 chapter in the IIVR book (BA of Language and Cognition) A psychological relation exists if the...
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Hi JT, and the rest of you I am going away for the weekend and will need some more time to read and consider your latest post. But I'll be back after the...
Hello all, I am writing because I am developing a new special interest group at ABA:I. The group is on "Behavioral Pharacology, Behavioral Toxicology,...
Hi JT, I am not really sure there is a disagreement here. Let's see. I agree that when a non verbal organism responds to a relation, formal properties of...
In view of the relationship of Context Press and New Harbinger to the CBS community I thought some folk might be interested in the attached. Context Press will...
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... From: ABA International <Convention@...> Subject: RE: One more SIG information for meeting To: jcautilli2003@... Date: Monday, May...
Hi All, I wanted to let everyone know that the Association for Behavior Analysis International is soliciting its members to find instructors to teach classes...
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