Steven C. Hayes

Experiential avoidance and behavioral disorders: A functional dimensional approach to diagnosis and treatment.

Syndromal classification is a well-developed diagnostic system but has failed to deliver on its promise of the identification of functional pathological processes. Functional an...

The Impact of Acceptance Versus Control Rationales on Pain Tolerance

DBT, FAP, and ACT: How empirically oriented are the new behavior therapy technologies?

Acceptance, mindfulness, and science.

The inclusion of technologies drawn from spiritual and religious traditions into empirical clinical psychology is a positive step forward, but it also helps reveal problems in t...

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Model, processes and outcomes

The use of acceptance and commitment therapy to prevent the rehospitalization of psychotic patients: A randomized controlled trial.

Relational frame theory, acceptance and commitment therapy, and a functional analytic definition of mindfulness

Should the behavioral sciences become more pragmatic? The case for functional contextualism in research on human behavior

ARBITRARILY APPLICABLE COMPARATIVE RELATIONS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR A RELATIONAL OPERANT

Arbitrarily applicable derived relational responding has been argued by relational frame theorists to be a form of operant behavior. The present study examined this idea with 4 ...

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change

Part I: The Problem and the Approach. The Dilemma of Human Suffering. The Philosophical and Theoretical Foundation of ACT. The ACT Model of Psychopathology and Human Suffering. ...