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How Behavioral Science Has Failed Us
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Steven C. Hayes is the developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and the codeveloper of Process-Based Therapy. The author of nearly 50 books, including the #1 bestselling Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life as well as A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters, he’s a popular speaker and blogger whose Ted Talks and blogs have nearly three million views and reads. A former president of multiple psychology and behavioral science associations, his many professional honors include a Lifetime Achievement Award from ABCT. He is among the most cited psychologists in the world.
In this talk, Hayes will explain why he believes that behavioral science has failed practitioners with its focus on latent diseases and diagnoses, and what can be done about it. But what can be done about all this labeling when practitioners work in a world structured by DSM and reimbursement protocols? Using his own popular Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as an example, Dr. Hayes will introduce a new approach to case-conceptualization that can redefine evidence-based therapy to be far more relevant to the actual world of clinical practice—and fairer to the people we hope to serve.
Steven C. Hayes, PhD
Dr. Steven C. Hayes is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and president of the Institute for Better Health, a 45-year-old charitable organization dedicated to better mental and behavioral health.
His work has been focused on developing a new behavioral science approach called Contextual Behavioral Science. He originated its underlying philosophical of science (Functional Contextualism), its basic science of human higher cognition (Relational Frame Theory or “RFT”), its application to individual psychological change (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or Training, “ACT” in either case), and co-developed its application to the development of more cooperative groups (Prosocial). He has helped develop a model of human suffering and human prosperity (the Psychological Flexibility Model), a new method of analyzing processes of change (idionomic analysis), a new vision of what evidence-based intervention should be (Process-Based Therapy), and he has extended multidimensional and multilevel evolutionary thinking to human problems of all kinds.
His work has been celebrated with several awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Impact of Science on Application Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis.
With 47 books and nearly 700 scientific articles published, Dr. Hayes is one of the most cited psychologists in the world as he continues to innovate in the field of psychology.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Steven Hayes has an employment relationship with the University of Nevada. He is the President of the Institute for Better Health and the research director at Praxis Continuing Education and Training. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee for MIND Foundation and receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Hayes has a financial relationship with PsychFlex. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and 小蝌蚪视频. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Steven Hayes serves on the policy making council for Universal Scientific Education and Research Network. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the Association for Behavioral Analysis International.