What is the CBS Superlab?
With the release of the ACBS Task Force Report on the Strategies and Tactics of Contextual Behavioral Science Research, high-level discussion around how to roll out the proposed recommendations is necessary. The CBS Superlab is an international research lab meeting held once a quarter via Zoom. CBS SuperLab Meetings are typically held at 3pm EST. These hour-long quarterly meetings will involve:
- A research presentation delivered by a CBS lab that showcases ongoing advances, developments, and innovations in the field of CBS. Each presenter will be invited to share resources relating to their presentation (e.g., PowerPoint slides, handouts, software packages) that will be made available to all attendees.
- A group discussion among all attendees that focuses on both the presentation and means of addressing the Task Force’s recommendations.
- All CBS research labs are invited to participate. To be considered a CBS lab, your lab details must be included on the ACBS website. Research labs may submit to present here.
All ACBS members are invited to attend. To attend a Superlab, please register here. After registering, we encourage you to join the Superlab listserv to continue the conversation.
Superlab with Felicia Sundström was held on Wednesday, 10 December. You will find the recording here!
Title: The Individual in Focus: An Idiographic Roadmap for Chronic Pain Treatment
Abstract: Traditional group-based approaches in chronic pain research often yield treatments with modest effects, as group averages can mask the profound heterogeneity of individual experiences, a reality particularly evident in complex conditions like endometriosis. This Superlab aims to contribute to the field’s idiographic turn by outlining a practical roadmap for a more personalized science, grounded in empirical findings that the assumption of ergodicity is often untenable in chronic pain data.
The outlined framework integrates several key concepts gaining traction in the field. It explores using the Single-Case Experimental Design (SCED) baseline as an intensive assessment phase to build richer, functional conceptualizations for each person. A central component of this framework is a proposed shift in our measurement philosophy: moving beyond a focus on universal "validation" toward a more nuanced assessment of a measure’s "adequacy" and "utility" for a specific individual.
The session will review relevant non-ergodicity findings and demonstrate the potential for easy and accessible methods, like cross-lagged correlations, for informing treatment tailoring. data from the EndoACT study will be presented to illustrate how these principles can be applied in practice and contribute to the ongoing development of more precise and personalized process-based therapies in chronic pain.