A selection of articles and chapters on Contextual Behavioral Science and Relational Frame Theory relevant to clinical practice. Contact us if you would like your paper to be listed.
Barnes, D., Stewart, I., Dymond, S., & Roche, B. (2000). A behavior-analytic approach to some of the problems of self: A relational frame analysis. In M. Dougher (Ed.), Clinical Behavior Analysis. Reno, NV: Context Press. Learn more
Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Cochrane, A., McHugh, L., & Stewart, I. (2004). Psychological Acceptance: Experimental Analyses and Theoretical Interpretations. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 517-530. Learn more
Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Hayes, S. C., & McHugh, L. (2004). Relational Frame Theory: Some Implications for Understanding and Treating Human Psychopathology. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 355-375. Learn more
Bennett, M., Hermans, D., Dymond, S., Vervoort, E., & Baeyens, F. (2015). From bad to worse: Symbolic equivalence and opposition in fear generalization. Cognition & Emotion, 29, 1137-1145. Learn more
Blackledge, J. T. (2003). An introduction to Relational Frame Theory: Basics and applications. The Behavior Analyst Today, 3(4), 421-433. Learn more
Blackledge, J. T., Moran, D. J., & Ellis, A. E. (2009). Bridging the divide: Linking basic science to applied psychotherapeutic interventions – A relational frame theory account of cognitive disputation in rational emotive behavior therapy. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 27, 232-248. Learn more
Bordieri, M., Kellum, K. K., Whiteman, K., Wilson, K. G. (in press). Basic Properties of Coherence: Testing a Core Assumption of Relational Frame Theory. The Psychological Record.
Carpenter, K. M., Martinez, D., Vadhan, N., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Nunes, E. V. (2012). Measures of attentional bias and relational responding are associated with behavioral treatment outcome for cocaine dependence. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 38,146-154. Learn more
Dymond, S., & Roche, B. (2009). A contemporary behavior analysis of anxiety and avoidance. The Behavior Analyst, 32, 7-28. Learn more
Dymond, S., & Roche, B. (2010). The impact of derived relational responding on gambling behavior. Analysis of Gambling Behavior, 4, 1-16. Learn more
Dymond, S., Schlund, M. W., Roche, B., & Whelan, R. (2014). The spread of fear: Symbolic generalization mediates graded threat-avoidance in specific phobia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 247-259. Learn more
Dymond, S., Roche, B., Forsyth, J. P., Whelan, R., & Rhoden, J. (2008). Derived avoidance learning: Transformation of avoidance response functions in accordance with same and opposite relational frames. The Psychological Record, 58, 269-286. Learn more
Dymond, S., Schlund, M.W., Roche, B., De Houwer, J., & Freegard, G. (2012). Safe from harm: Learned, instructed, and symbolic generalization pathways of human threat-avoidance. PLoS ONE, 7(10): e47539. Learn more
Dymond, S., Dunsmoor, J. E., Vervliet, B., Roche, B., & Hermans, D. (2015). Fear generalization in humans: Systematic review and implications for anxiety disorder research. Behavior Therapy, 46, 561-582. Learn more
Dymond, S., Schlund, M. W., Roche, B., Whelan, R., Richards, J., & Davies, C. (2011). Inferred threat and safety: Symbolic generalization of human avoidance learning. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49, 614-621. Learn more
Foody, M., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Luciano, C. (2013). An Empirical Investigation of Hierarchical versus Distinction Relations in a Self-based ACT Exercise. International Journal of Psychology & Psychological Therapy, 13(3), 373-388. Learn more
Foody, M., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Barnes-Holmes, D., Torneke, N., Luciano, C., Stewart, I., & McEnteggart, C. (2014). RFT for clinical use: The example of metaphor. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 3, 305-313. Learn more
Friman, P. C., Hayes, S. C., & Wilson, K. G. (1998). Why behavior analysts should study emotion: The example of anxiety. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 31, 137-156. Learn more
Hayes, S. C. (1984). Making sense of spirituality. Behaviorism, 12, 99-110. Learn more
Hayes, S. C. (1987). A contextual approach to therapeutic change. In N. Jacobson (Ed.), Psychotherapists in clinical practice: Cognitive and behavioral perspectives (pp. 327 387). New York: Guilford. Learn more
Hayes, S. C. (1992). Verbal relations, time, and suicide. In S. C. Hayes & L. J. Hayes (Eds.), Understanding verbal relations (pp. 109-118). Reno, NV: Context Press.
Hayes, S. C. (1994). Content, context, and the types of psychological acceptance. In S. C. Hayes, N. S. Jacobson, V. M. Follette, & M. J. Dougher (Eds.), Acceptance and change: Content and context in psychotherapy (pp. 13-32). Reno, NV: Context Press. Learn more
Hayes, S. C. (2004). Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Relational Frame Theory, and the third wave of behavior therapy. Behavior Therapy, 35, 639-665. Learn more
Hayes, S. C. (2005). Stability and change in Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Considering the implications of ACT and RFT. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 23(2), 131-151. Learn more
Hayes, S. C., & Berens, N. M. (2004). Why Relational Frame Theory alters the relationship between basic and applied behavioral psychology. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Psychotherapy, 4, 341-353. Learn more
Hayes, S. C., & Follette, W. C. (1992). Can functional analysis provide a substitute for syndromal classification? Behavioral Assessment, 14, 345-365. Learn more
Hayes, S. C., & Gifford, E. V. (1997). The trouble with language: experiential avoidance, rules, and the nature of verbal events. American Psychological Society, 8, 170-173. Learn more
Hayes, S. C., & Hayes, L. J. (1992). Some clinical implications of contextualistic behaviorism: The example of cognition. Behavior Therapy, 23, 225-249. Learn more
Hayes, S. C., & Plumb, J. C. (2007). Mindfulness from the Bottom Up: Providing an Inductive Framework for Understanding Mindfulness Processes and their Application to Human Suffering. Psychological Inquiry, 18(4), 242-248. Learn more
Hayes, S. C., & Toarmino, D. (1999). The rise of clinical behaviour analysis. The Psychologist, 12, 505-509.
Hayes, S. C., & Wilson, K. G. (1993). Some applied implications of a contemporary behavior-analytic account of verbal events. The Behavior Analyst, 16, 283-301. Learn more
Hayes, S. C., & Wilson, K. G. (2000). Why it is crucial to understand thinking and feeling: An analysis and application to drug abuse. The Behavior Analyst, 23, 25-43. Learn more
Hayes, S. C., Kohlenberg, B. S., & Melancon, S. M. (1989). Avoiding and altering rule-control as a strategy of clinical intervention. In S. C. Hayes (Ed.), Rule governed behavior: Cognition, contingencies, and instructional control (pp. 359-385). New York: Plenum. Learn more
Hayes, S.C., Villatte, M., Levin, M. & Hildebrandt, M. (2011). Open, aware, and active: Contextual approaches as an emerging trend in the behavioral and cognitive therapies. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 7, 141-168. Learn more
Hooper, N., Saunders, S., & McHugh, L. (2010). The derived generalization of thought suppression. Learning and Behavior. 38(2) 160-168. Learn more
Hooper, N., Villatte, M., Neofotistou, E., & McHugh, L. (2010). An Implicit versus an explicit measure of experimental avoidance. International Journal of Behavior Consultation and Therapy, 6 (3) 233-244. Learn more
Hooper, N., Stewart, I., Duffy, C., Freegard, G. & McHugh, L. (2012). Modeling the direct and indirect effects of thought suppression on personal choice. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 1, 73-82. Learn more
Kishita, N., Muto, T., Ohtsuki, T., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2014). Measuring the effect of cognitive defusion using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: An experimental analysis with a highly socially anxious sample. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 3, 8-15. Learn more
Levin, M. & Villatte, M. (2016). The Role of Experimental Psychopathology and Laboratory Based Intervention Studies in Contextual Behavioral Science. In S.C. Hayes, D. Barnes Holmes, R. Zettle, & T. Biglan (Eds.), Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science. Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell. Learn more
Luciano, M. C., Rodríguez Valverde, M., & Gutiérrez Martínez, O. (2004). A proposal for synthesizing verbal contexts in Experiential Avoidance Disorder and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 377-394. Learn more
Luciano, C., Valdivia-Salas, S., Ruiz, F. J., Rodríguez-Valverde, M., Barnes-Holmes, D., Dougher, M. J., Cabello, F., Sánchez, V., Barnes-Holmes, Y., & Gutierrez O. (2013). Extinction of aversive eliciting functions as an analog of exposure to conditioned fear: Does it alter avoidance responding? Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 2, 120-134. Learn more
Monestes, J. L., Villatte, M., Stewart, I., & Loas, G. (2014). Rule-based insensitivity and delusion maintenance in schizophrenia. The Psychological Record, 64(2), 329-338. Learn more
Parling, T., Cernvall, M., Stewart, I., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Ghaderi, A. (2012). Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure to Compare Implicit Pro-Thin/Anti-Fat Attitudes of Patients With Anorexia Nervosa and Non-Clinical Controls. Eating Disorders, 20, 127-143. Learn more
Plumb, J. C., Stewart, I., Dahl, J., & Lundgren, T. (2009). In search of meaning: Values in modern clinical behavior analysis. The Behavior Analyst, 32, 85-103. Learn more
Ramnerö, J. & Törneke, N. (2014). On having a goal – Goals as representations or as behavior. The Psychological Record, doi: 10.1007/s40732-014-0093-0. Learn more
Roche, B. T., Kanter, J. W., Brown, K. R., Dymond, S., & Fogarty, C. C. (2008). A comparison of “direct” versus “derived” extinction of avoidance responding. The Psychological Record, 58, 443-464. Learn more
Rodríguez-Valverde, M., Luciano, C., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2009). Transfer of aversive respondent elicitation in accordance with equivalence relations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 92, 85-111. Learn more
Rodríguez-Valverde, M., Luciano, M. C., Gutiérrez Martínez, O., & Hernández López, M. (2004). Tranfer of latent inhibition of aversively conditioned autonomic responses through equivalence classes. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 605-622. Learn more
Stewart, I., Hooper, N., Walsh, P., O’Keefe, R., Joyce, R., & McHugh, L. (2015). Transformation of Thought Suppression Functions Via Same and Opposite Relations. Psychological Record, 65, 375-399. Learn more
Torneke, N., Luciano, C., & Valdivia Salas, S. (2008). Rule-Governed Behavior and Psychological Problems.International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8(2), 141-156. Learn more
Vilardaga, R. (2009). A relational frame theory account of empathy. The International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 5, 178-184. Learn more
Villatte, M. (2016). Evaluating In-Session Therapist and Client Behaviors From a Contextual Behavioral Science Perspective, In R. Zettle, S. C. Hayes, D. Barnes Holmes, & T. Biglan (Eds.), Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science. Chichester, UK: Wiley Blackwell. Learn more
Villatte, M. & Monestès, J. L. (2010). La Théorie des Cadres Relationnels: La place du Langage dans la Thérapie d’Acceptation et d’Engagement. Revue Québécoise de Psychologie, 31(3), 85-104. Learn more
Villatte, M., Villatte, J. L., & Hayes, S. C. (in press). A reticulated and progressive strategy for developing clinical applications of RFT. The Psychological Record. Learn more
Villatte, M., Villatte, J. L., & Monestes, J. L. (2014). Understanding and using Relational Frame Theory in experiential clinical practice. In J. Stoddard & N. Afari (Eds). The Big Book of ACT Metaphors: The Complete Guide to ACT Metaphors and Experiential Exercises. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger. Learn more
Villatte, M., Monestès, J. L., McHugh, L., Freixa i Baqué, E., & Loas, G. (2008). Assessing deictic relational responding in social anhedonia: A functional approach to the development of Theory of Mind impairments. International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 4(4), 360-373. Learn more
Villatte, M., Monestès, J. L., McHugh, L., Freixa i Baqué, E., & Loas, G. (2010). Adopting the perspective of another in belief attribution: Contribution of Relational Frame Theory to the understanding of impairments in schizophrenia. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 41, 125-134. Learn more
Villatte, M., Monestès, J. L., McHugh, L., Freixa i Baqué, E., & Loas, G. (2010). Assessing perspective taking in schizophrenia using Relational Frame Theory. The Psychological Record, 60, 413-424. Learn more
Wilson, K. G., & Blackledge, J. T. (1999). Recent Developments in the Behavioral Analysis of Language: Making Sense of Clinical Phenomena. In M. J. Dougher (Ed.), Clinical Behavior Analysis. Reno, NV: Context Press. Learn more
Wilson, K. G., Hayes, S. C., & Gifford, E. V. (1997). Cognition in behavior therapy: Agreements and differences. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 28, 53-63. Learn more
Wilson, K. G., Hayes, S. C., & Zettle, R. D. (2001). Psychopathology and psychotherapy. In S. C. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes, & B. Roche (Eds.), Relational Frame Theory: A Post Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition. New York: Plenum. Learn more
Wilson, K. G., Sandoz, E. K., Kellum, K. K., & DuFrene, T. (2009). Stimulus control for clinicians. In K. G. Wilson & T. DuFrene, Mindfulness for Two: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Mindfulness in Psychotherapy. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger. Learn more
Zettle, R. D., & Hayes, S. C. (1982). Rule governed behavior: A potential theoretical framework for cognitive behavior therapy. In P. C. Kendall (Ed.), Advances in cognitive behavioral research and therapy (pp. 73-118). New York: Academic. Learn more
Zettle, R. D., & Hayes, S. C. (1986). Dysfunctional control by client verbal behavior: The context of reason giving. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 4, 30-38. Learn more
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