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Relational Frame Theory (RFT)

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The PIIRAP: An alternative scoring algorithm for the IRAP using a probabilistic semiparametric effect size measure
Science Direct article

Volume 7, January 2018, Pages 97-103

Authors:

Maarten De Schryver, Ian Hussey, Jan De Neve, Aoife Cartwright, Dermot Barnes-Holmes

Abstract:


From the IRAP and REC model to a multi-dimensional multi-level framework for analyzing the dynamics of arbitrarily applicable relational responding
Science Direct article

Volume 6, Issue 4, October 2017, Pages 434-445

Authors:

Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Carmen Luciano, Ciara McEnteggart

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Introduction to the special issue on conceptual developments in relational frame theory: Background, content, and the challenge going forward
Science Direct article

Volume 12, April 2019, Pages 355-357

Authors:

Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Ian Stewart Thomas Parling

Abstract:


Special Issue on Conceptual Developments in Relational Frame Theory: Research and Practice
Book page

This Special Issue consists of articles on innovations and implications of Relational Frame Theory (RFT).

Guest Editors:
Dermot Barnes-Holmes - Ghent University, Belgium
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes - Ghent University, Belgiumv Ian Stewart - National University of Ireland, Ireland
Thomas Parling - Karolinska Institute, Centre for Psychiatry Research, Sweden


Introduction to the special issue on conceptual developments in relational frame theory: Background, content, and the challenge going forward (Pages 355-357)
Science Direct article

Volume 12, April 2019, Pages 355-357
(Special Issue on Conceptual Developments in Relational Frame Theory: Research and Practice)

Authors:
Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Ian Stewart, Thomas Parling


A Reticulated and Progressive Strategy for Developing Clinical Applications of RFT
Publication

In this paper, we reply to the review of our book Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention, in which we developed a framework to use relational frame theory (RFT) principles in clinical practice. We identified four main areas of discussion: the reticulation strategy, the importance of functional analysis, the implication of learning history in clinical work, and the development of research in RFT for clinical applications.


From Relational Frame Theory to implicit attitudes and back again: clarifying the link between RFT and IRAP research
Publication

Relational Frame Theory (RFT) is a functional-analytic account of human language and cognition, including human psychopathology. The core premise of the theory is that language and cognition is composed of relational acts. Over the past 10 years, the theory has served to generate the development of a measure, known as the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure, which was designed initially to provide a metric of the strength or persistence of relational responding.


Pennie, B., Kelly, M. E. (2018) An examination of generalised implicit biases towards ‘wanting more’ as a proxy measure of materialistic behaviour: A Relational Frame Theory (RFT) perspective.
Publication

The research investigated the contextual effects of mood on implicit measures of ‘wanting more’ as a proxy of materialism and investigated the basic verbal processes underpinning this behaviour. Sixty university students were recruited to participate.


Barnes-Holmes, Y., Boorman, J., Oliver, J. E., Thompson, M., McEnteggart, C., & Coulter, C. (2018). Using conceptual developments in RFT to direct case formulation and clinical intervention: Two case summaries
Publication

The current paper is part of an ongoing effort to better connect RFT with the complexities of clinical phenomena. The paper outlines two broad areas, referred to as ‘verbal functional analysis’ and the ‘drill-down’, in which we believe the basic theory is showing increasingly direct application to therapy. The paper also comprises two case summaries in which verbal functional analysis and the drill-down featured strongly in case formulation and clinical focus.