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Practical and clinical implications. RFT isn’t just for research…. Advertisers count on it!. Hot young people drink beer X, drive car Y, eat at restaurant Z, etc. You drink beer X, drive car Y, eat at Z you hot young thing!. Your dog can train you. “woof” at the bowl = he wants food
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Practical and clinical implications • RFT isn’t just for research…
Advertisers count on it! • Hot young people drink beer X, drive car Y, eat at restaurant Z, etc. • You drink beer X, drive car Y, eat at Z you hot young thing!
Your dog can train you • “woof” at the bowl = he wants food • “woof” at the front door = he wants to go for a walk • “woof” at the back door = he has to ‘go’ • Whine + nudge = he wants attention • Snout on leg = he wants the food you are eating
Developmental disabilities • Teaching language skills • Teaching perspective taking
Perspective taking • “Undoing” • Amotivation • Empathy • Theory of mind/social cognition • delusions
Correspondence and hierarchy and transformation of stimulus functions • “Feeling dirty” • Internalized stigma • Shame for what others have done • Peer pressure • Panic disorder
Altering stimulus functions • Paradox • Irreverence • Deliteralization • I’m having the thought that… • In general, increasing defusion
Defused stance towards verbal experience • Decreasing the frequency or intensity of transformation of stimulus functions or changing the nature of what is transformed