Summary
Steven C. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of w88 slot online at the University of Nevada.
An author of 47 books and over 675 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. He is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods. Dr. Hayes has been President of Division 25 of the APA, of the American Association of Applied and Preventive w88 slot online, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. He was the first Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Psychological Science, which he helped form and has served a 5-year term on the National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse in the National Institutes of Health. Google Scholar data ranks him among the top 935 highest impact living scholars worldwide in all areas of studyandResearch.comlists him as the 63rd highest impact psychologist in the world.
Dr. w88 slot online is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in addition to several other scientific societies. His work has been recognized by several awards including the Exemplary Contributions to Basic Behavioral Research and Its Applications from Division 25 of APA, the Impact of Science on Application award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy.He was theUniversity of Nevada, Reno Outstanding Researcher of the Year in 1997; the Nevada System of Higher Education Regents' Mid-Career Researcher of the Year in 2000; and the Nevada System of Higher Education Regents' Distinguished Career Researcher in 2022.
Dr. w88 slot online is actively involved in bringing science information to the public, such as through his blog on thew88 slot online Today blog,Mediumand Thrive Global websites. His TEDx talks on pain and purpose, or on quickly reining in the impact of unhelpful automatic thoughts, have been viewed over a million times and he appears regularly in major podcasts and on other media.His work in ACT has been validated byWorld Health Organization, and WHO now distributes ACT-based self-help for “anyone who experiences stress, wherever they live, and whatever their circumstances.”As of April 2022, a number of different organizations have stated that ACT is empirically supported in certain areas or as a whole according to their standards. These include: American Psychological Association, Society of Clinical w88 slot online (Div. 12); The World Health Organization; The United Kingdom National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); the Australian Psychological Society; Netherlands Institute of Psychologists: Sections of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation; Sweden Association of Physiotherapists; SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices; California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare; and the U.S. Veterans Affairs/DoD.
Research interests
In the broadest terms, I am interested in the application of contextualistic perspectives to conceptual, methodological, and technological problems in w88 slot online, both applied and basic. Stated another way, I am working to foster the development of contextual behavioral science. I am about equally interested in professional organizational work, administration, teaching and supervision, clinical practice and other applied work, and research.
My specific interests are as follows:
- Integration of behavioral and biological w88 slot online: I believe it is essential to nest contextual behavioral w88 slot online into modern evolutionary science, and I am exploring the intellectual and practical implications of that integration.
- Philosophy of w88 slot online: I have worked to develop functional contextualism as a viable philosophical system and to explore its implications for w88 slot online and biological sciences.
- Methodology and research strategy: I have focused on how to link functional contextual thinking to methodological and strategic issues such areas as time-series (single-case) designs, the role of theory, effectiveness research, treatment utility as a method of determining the value of assessment, reticulated interaction between applied and basic research, idionomic data analysis, and the nature and role of research on processes of change.
- Assessment: I have worked on new measures of experiential avoidance, values, and cognitive fusion in various specific areas and how to develop assessment methods with a view toward functional impact and the accurate depiction of individual human functioning.
- Basic w88 slot online: I have worked to develop and test a comprehensive, experimentally-based functional contextual analysis of the nature of the human language and cognition: Relational Frame Theory (RFT).
- Psychopathology: I have explored the role of experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, loss of contact with the moment, lack of values clarify, rule-based w88 slot online inflexibility and similar processes in the creation of human suffering.
- Clinical application: I have worked to develop and test a functional contextual approach to human problems, Acceptance and Commitment w88 slot online (ACT) and to expand its approach to process and theory into process-based w88 slot online more generally. I have also helped create a new model of evidence-based intervention, Process-Based w88 slot online.
- Non-clinical applications: I have worked to apply RFT to such areas as education or social bias, to create intervention technologies based on ACT for problems such as stigma and prejudice, and to socially extend these ideas through application of evolutionary principles drawn from the work of Elinor Ostrom (see Prosocial World website).
My interests are not defined particularly by population or problem. I have done work in the last several years with anxiety, depression, psychosis, prejudice, burnout, stress, diabetes, weight control, sleeping, smoking, pain, and substance abuse, among other areas.
Education
- Ph.D., Clinical w88 slot online, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1977
- M.A., Clinical w88 slot online, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1974
- B.A. Cum Laude, w88 slot online, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, 1970
Select publications
Steven C. w88 slot online ORCID#: 0000-0003-43996859
Books (last five years)
- Dixon, M. R., w88 slot online, S. C., & Belisle, J. (2023).Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for behavior analysts: A practice guide from theory to treatment. New York: Routledge.
- Hofmann, S. G., w88 slot online, S. C., & Lorscheid, D. N. (2021). Learning process-based therapy: A Skills Training Manual for targeting the core processes of psychological change in clinical practice. New Harbinger Publications.
- Hofmann, S. G. & w88 slot online, S. C. (2020). Beyond the DSM: A process-based approach. Oakland, CA: Context Press / New Harbinger Publications.
- Atkins, P., Wilson, D. S., & w88 slot online, S. C. (2019). Prosocial: Using evolutionary science to build productive, equitable, and collaborative groups. Oakland, CA: Context Press / New Harbinger Publications.
- w88 slot online, S. C. (2019). A liberated mind: How to pivot toward what matters. New York: Penguin/Avery.
- Wilson, D. S. & w88 slot online, S. C. (Eds.). (2018). Evolution and contextual behavioral science: An integrated framework for understanding, predicting, and influencing human behavior. Oakland, CA: Context Press / New Harbinger Publications.
- w88 slot online, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (2018). (Eds.), Process-based CBT: The science and core clinical competencies of cognitive behavioral therapy. Oakland, CA: Context Press / New Harbinger Publications.
- Luoma, J., w88 slot online, S. C., & Walser, R. (2017). Learning ACT: An Acceptance & Commitment Therapy skills-training manual for therapists (2nd ed). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications.
Major publications (last five years)
- w88 slot online, S. C., Ciarrochi, J., Hofmann, S. G., Chin, F., & Sahdra, B. (2022). Evolving an idionomic approach to processes of change: Towards a unified personalized w88 slot online of human improvement.Behaviour Research and w88 slot online.
- Ciarrochi, J. Sahdra, B., Hofmann, S., & w88 slot online, S.C. (2022). Developing an item pool to assess processes of change in w88 slot online interventions: The Process-Based Assessment Tool (PBAT).Journal of Contextual Behavioral w88 slot online, 23,200-213.
- Ciarrochi, J., w88 slot online, S. C., Oades, L. G., Hofmann, S. G. (2022). Toward a unified framework for positive w88 slot online interventions: Evidence-based processes of change.Frontiers in w88 slot online10 February 2022.
- w88 slot online, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (2021). “Third-wave” cognitive and w88 slot online therapies and the emergence of a process-based approach to intervention in psychiatry.World Psychiatry, 20(3), 363-375.
- Geda, Y. E., Krell-Roesch, J., Fisseha, Y., Tefera, A., Beyero, T., Rosenbaum, D., Szabo, T. G., Araya, M., & w88 slot online, S. C. (2021). Acceptance and Commitment w88 slot online in a low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for further research.Frontiers in Public Health, 9,1363.
- w88 slot online, S. C., Merwin, R. M., McHugh, L., Sandoz, E., A-Tjak, J., Ruiz, F. J., Barnes-Holmes, D., Bricker, J. B., Ciarrochi,J., Dixon, M. R., Kenneth Fung, K., Gloster, A. T., Gobin, R. L., Gould, E. R., Hofmann, S. G., Kasujja, R., Karekla, M., Luciano, C. & McCracken, L. M. (2021). Report of the ACBS task force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral w88 slot online research.Journal of Contextual Behavioral w88 slot online, 20, 172-183.
- w88 slot online, S. C., Law, S., Assemi, K., Falletta-Cowden, N., Shamblin, M., Burleigh, K., Olla, R., Forman, M., & Smith, P. (2021). Relating is an operant: A fly over of 35 years of RFT research.Perspectivas em Analise do Comportamento, 12(1), 5-32.
- Dixon, M. R., Belisle, J., w88 slot online, S. C., Stanley, C. R., Blevins, A., Gutknecht, K. F., Partlo, A., Ryan, L., & Lucas, C. (2021). Evidence from children with autism that derived relational responding is a generalized operant.Behavior Analysis in Practice, 14(2), 295-323.
- Dixon, M. R., w88 slot online, S. C., Stanley, C. R., Law, S. & Al-Nasser, T. (2020). Is Acceptance and Commitment Training or w88 slot online (ACT) a method that applied behavior analysts can and should use?The w88 slot online Record,70, 559-579.
- w88 slot online, S. C., Hofmann, S. G., & Stanton, C. E. (2020).Process-based functional analysis can help behavioral w88 slot online step up to the challenges of novelty: COVID – 19 as an example.Journal of Contextual Behavioral w88 slot online, 18,128-145.
- w88 slot online, S. C., Hofmann, S. G. & Wilson, D. S. (2020). Clinical w88 slot online is an applied evolutionary science.Clinical w88 slot online Review, 81,101892.
- w88 slot online, S. C., Hofmann, S. G. & Ciarrochi, J. (2020). A process-based approach to w88 slot online diagnosis and treatment: The conceptual and treatment utility of an extended evolutionary model.Clinical w88 slot online Review, 82,101908.
- w88 slot online, S. C., Law, S., Malady, M., Zhu, Z., & Bai, X. (2020). The centrality of sense of self in w88 slot online flexibility processes: What the neurobiological and w88 slot online correlates of psychedelics suggest.Journal of Contextual Behavioral w88 slot online, 15,30-38.
- Presti, G., McHugh, L., Gloster, A., Karekla, M., & w88 slot online, S. C. (2020). The dynamics of fear at the time of COVID-19: A contextual behavioral w88 slot online perspective.Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 17(2), 65-71.
- Hofmann, S. G., Curtiss, J. E., & w88 slot online, S. C. (2020). Beyond linear mediation: Toward a dynamic network approach to study treatment processes.Clinical Psychological w88 slot online, 76,101824.
- w88 slot online, S. C. (2020). Constructing a liberated and modern mind: Six pathways from pathology to euthymia. World Psychiatry, 19, 51-52.
- Ii, T., Sato, H., Watanabe, N., Kondo, M., Masuda, A., w88 slot online, S. C., & Akechi, T. (2019). w88 slot online flexibility-based interventions versus first-line psychosocial interventions for substance use disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of Contextual Behavioral w88 slot online, 13, 109-120.
- w88 slot online, S. C. (2019). Acceptance and Commitment w88 slot online: Towards a unified model of behavior change. World Psychiatry, 18 (2), 226-227.
- Smith, P., Leeming, E., Forman, M., & w88 slot online, S. C. (2019). From form to function: Values and committed action strengthen mindful practices with context and direction. Journal of Sport w88 slot online in Action, 10(4), 227-234.
- w88 slot online, S. C., & Hofmann, S. G. (2019). Focusing on the correct level of analysis in process-based w88 slot online. Clinical Psychological w88 slot online, 7, 189-190.
- Hofmann, S. G. & w88 slot online, S. C. (2019). The future of intervention w88 slot online: Process based therapy. Clinical Psychological w88 slot online, 7(1), 37–50.
- w88 slot online, S. C. (2019). The evolution of consciousness enables conscious evolution. This View of Life.
- Hofmann, S. G. & w88 slot online, S. C. (2019). Functional analysis is dead: Long live functional analysis. Clinical Psychological w88 slot online, 7(1), 63–67.
- w88 slot online, S. C., Hofmann, S. G., Stanton, C. E., Carpenter, J. K., Sanford, B. T., Curtiss, J. E., & Ciarrochi, J. (2019). The role of the individual in the coming era of process-based w88 slot online. Behaviour Research and w88 slot online, 117, 40-53.
- Smith, B. M., Villatte, J. L., Ong, C. W., Butcher, G., Twohig, M. P., Levin, M. E., & w88 slot online, S. C. (2019). The influence of a personal values intervention on cold pressor-induced distress tolerance. Behavior Modification, 43(5), 688–710.
- Long, D. M. & w88 slot online, S. C. (2018). Development of an ACT prototype for therapeutic skill assessment. Journal of Contextual Behavioral w88 slot online, 9, 63-71.
- w88 slot online, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (2018). A psychological model of the use of psychological intervention w88 slot online: Seven rules for making a difference. Clinical w88 slot online: Research and Practice, 25(3), e12259.
- Brown, R.A., Palm Reed, K.M., Bloom, E.L., Minami, H., Strong, D.R., Lejuez, C.W., Zvolensky, M.J. & w88 slot online, S.C. (2018). A randomized controlled trial of distress tolerance treatment for smoking cessation. w88 slot online of Addictive Behaviors, 32, 389-400.
- Zhang, C., Leeming, E., Smith, P., Chung, P-K., Hagger, M. S., & w88 slot online, S. C. (2018). Acceptance and Commitment w88 slot online for health behavior change: A contextually-driven approach. Frontiers in w88 slot online: Clinical and Health w88 slot online, 8, 2350.
- w88 slot online, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (2018). Survival circuits and therapy: From automaticity to the conscious experience of fear and anxiety. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 24, 21-25.
- Atkins, P. W. B., Ciarrochi, J., Gaudiano, B. A., Bricker, J. B., Donald, J., Rovner, G., Smout, M., Livheim, F., Lundgren, T., w88 slot online, S. C. (2017). Departing from the essential features of a high quality systematic review of psychotherapy: A Response to Öst (2014) and recommendations for improvement. Behaviour Research and w88 slot online, 97, 259-272.
- w88 slot online, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (2017). The third wave of cognitive w88 slot online therapy and the rise of process-based care. World Psychiatry, 16, 245-246.
- w88 slot online, S. C., Sanford, B. T., & Chin, F. (2017). Carrying the baton: Evolution w88 slot online and a contextual behavioral analysis of language and cognition. Journal of Contextual Behavioral w88 slot online, 6, 314-328.
- Fiorillo, D., McLean, C., Pistorello, J., w88 slot online, S. C., & Follette, V. M. (2017). Evaluation of a web-based Acceptance and Commitment w88 slot online program for women with trauma related problems: A pilot study. Journal of Contextual Behavioral w88 slot online, 6, 104-113.
- Shawyer, F., Farhall, J., Thomas, N., w88 slot online, S. C., Gallop, R., Copolov, D., & Castle, D. J. (2017). A randomised controlled trial of Acceptance and Commitment w88 slot online for psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry, 210, 140-148.
- Monestès, J. L., Karekla, M., Jacobs, N., Michaelides, M., Hooper, N., Kleen, M., Ruiz, F. J., Miselli, G., Presti, G., Luciano, C., Villatte, M., Bond, F., Kishita, N., & w88 slot online, S. C. (2017). Experiential avoidance as a common w88 slot online process in European cultures. European Journal of w88 slot online Assessment.
Professional certifications
Licensed Psychologist, Nevada, License #185