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Papers by Steven Hayes
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 2022
Process-based therapy (PBT) focuses on treatment elements that target biopsychosocial processes o... more Process-based therapy (PBT) focuses on treatment elements that target biopsychosocial processes of relevance to individual treatment goals. This focus requires new, more integrative and idionomic models that identify key processes of change, using high temporal density measurement applied at the level of the person. Standard measurement validation approaches are inadequate to this challenge. The present study develops and provides a preliminary validation of a process-based assessment tool (PBAT) -- an item pool meant for intensive longitudinal clinical assessment. Developed using the Extended-Evolutionary Meta-Model of PBT and evaluated using a machine-learning algorithm appropriate for the evaluation of individual items, we administered the PBAT online to a sample of 598 participants (290 male; 302 female; 6 unidentified. Mage = 32.6). Analyses revealed that the PBAT distinguishes between positive and negative processes, links in theoretically coherent ways to need satisfaction and thwarting, and links to clinically relevant outcomes of sadness, anger, anxiety, stress, lack of social support, vitality, and health. The PBAT provides a beginning step towards developing a process-based tool that allows clinicians and researchers to select individual items or sets of items for individual-focused idionomic research and practice.
Genomics
A familial early-onset breast cancer gene (BRCA1) has been localized to chromosome 17q21. To char... more A familial early-onset breast cancer gene (BRCA1) has been localized to chromosome 17q21. To characterize this region and to aid in the identification of the BRCA1 gene, a physical map of a region of 1.0–1.5 Mb between the EDH17B1 and the PPY loci on chromosome ...
Genomics
A familial early-onset breast cancer gene (BRCA1) has been localized to chromosome 17q21. To char... more A familial early-onset breast cancer gene (BRCA1) has been localized to chromosome 17q21. To characterize this region and to aid in the identification of the BRCA1 gene, a physical map of a region of 1.0–1.5 Mb between the EDH17B1 and the PPY loci on chromosome ...
Perspectivas em Análise do Comportamento
Na linguagem comum, é feita uma distinção clara entre o mundo da matéria e o do espírito. Embor... more Na linguagem comum, é feita uma distinção clara entre o mundo da matéria e o do espírito. Embora o dualismo seja tipicamente pensado como incompatível com o behaviorismo, uma análise comportamental da autoconsiência sugere que existem boas razões para uma conversa dualista. Algumas qualidades bem conhecidas tanto de aspectos espirituais humanos quanto de um Deus metafísico parecem fluir naturalmente a partir dessa análise (comportamental). Discute-se brevemente a utilização de uma faceta espiritual de self em terapia.
European Journal of Behavior Analysis
Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, Jun 1, 2018
We previously developed a distress tolerance (DT)-based treatment that showed promising results f... more We previously developed a distress tolerance (DT)-based treatment that showed promising results for smokers with a history of early lapse. In the current study, we conducted a randomized controlled trial of this DT treatment for a general population of smokers not limited to those with a history of early lapse. We randomized 116 participants (41% female) to DT or standard treatment (ST). Both treatments included 1 individual session during Week 1 followed by 7 group sessions during Weeks 2-9 (quit date at Session 4), two 20-min phone sessions, and 8 weeks of transdermal nicotine patch. Results indicated no significant differences between conditions in the primary outcome of biochemically verified 7-day point prevalence smoking abstinence or in time to 1st lapse. Verified abstinence rates in DT were 38.7%, 38.7%, 46.77%, 40.32%, 20.9%, and 17.7% versus 40.7%, 37.0%, 53.7%, 44.4%, 33.3%, and 22.2% in ST at 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, and 26 weeks postquit, respectively. Additionally, we found no ...
Behavior modification, 2018
Research has demonstrated that values and acceptance interventions can increase distress toleranc... more Research has demonstrated that values and acceptance interventions can increase distress tolerance, but the individual contribution of each remains unclear. The current study examined the isolated effect of a values intervention on immersion time in a cold pressor. Participants randomized to Values ( n = 18) and Control ( n = 14) conditions completed two cold pressor tasks, separated by a 30-min values or control intervention. Immersion time increased 51.06 s for participants in the Values condition and decreased by 10.79 s for those in the Control condition. Increases in self-reported pain and distress predicted decreases in immersion time for Control, but not Values, participants. The best-fitting model accounted for 39% of the variance in immersion time change. Results suggest that a brief isolated values exercise can be used to improve distress tolerance despite increased perceptions of pain and distress, such that values alone may be sufficient to facilitate openness to difficu...
Frontiers in psychology, 2017
Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the fi... more Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the field of health psychology. In this paper, we introduce a context-driven approach, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model which is built on Relational Frame Theory. The ACT-based intervention aims to promote individuals' new health behavior patterns through the improvement of the key construct of psychological flexibility, which is defined as the ability to contact the present moment more fully with acceptance and mindfulness as a conscious human being. Building on the psychological flexibility model, implemented through the six core ACT processes, individuals improve maintenance of long term health behavior change through committed acts in service of chosen values while acknowledging and accepting the existence of contrary thoughts, rules, and emotions as part of themselves but not determinant of their behaviors. Taking advantage of this context-driven approach of health be...
International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy
The Psychological Record
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Behaviour research and therapy, Jan 29, 2017
Please note that this is not a retraction, but a temporary take down. It will be published once D... more Please note that this is not a retraction, but a temporary take down. It will be published once Dr Ost's response has been received (it is expected sometime in approximately the next couple of months).The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal.
Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive, 2007
Behavioral Assessment, 1992
ABSTRACT Argues that functional analysis has failed to progress as a system of case formulation a... more ABSTRACT Argues that functional analysis has failed to progress as a system of case formulation and treatment guidance primarily due to the lack of replicability of functional analysis as classically conceived and the resultant difficulty in studying it scientifically. Several alternatives are offered: the development of expert systems, logical functional analytic systems, and functional diagnostic categories. Progress in any of these key areas would provide conceptual and practical support for classic functional analysis as a method of diagnosis and classification and as an alternative to the syndromal medical model. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce ... more Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce electricity use in four units of a university student housing complex. A combined multiple-baseline and withdrawal design permitted both within- and between-unit comparisons. Payments produced immediate and substantial reductions in consumption in all units, even when the magnitude of the payments was reduced considerably. Feedback also produced reductions, but information about ways to conserve and about the cost of using various appliances did not. It was also found that, in general, payments combined with either information or feedback produced no greater effect than payments alone.
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 2022
Process-based therapy (PBT) focuses on treatment elements that target biopsychosocial processes o... more Process-based therapy (PBT) focuses on treatment elements that target biopsychosocial processes of relevance to individual treatment goals. This focus requires new, more integrative and idionomic models that identify key processes of change, using high temporal density measurement applied at the level of the person. Standard measurement validation approaches are inadequate to this challenge. The present study develops and provides a preliminary validation of a process-based assessment tool (PBAT) -- an item pool meant for intensive longitudinal clinical assessment. Developed using the Extended-Evolutionary Meta-Model of PBT and evaluated using a machine-learning algorithm appropriate for the evaluation of individual items, we administered the PBAT online to a sample of 598 participants (290 male; 302 female; 6 unidentified. Mage = 32.6). Analyses revealed that the PBAT distinguishes between positive and negative processes, links in theoretically coherent ways to need satisfaction and thwarting, and links to clinically relevant outcomes of sadness, anger, anxiety, stress, lack of social support, vitality, and health. The PBAT provides a beginning step towards developing a process-based tool that allows clinicians and researchers to select individual items or sets of items for individual-focused idionomic research and practice.
Genomics
A familial early-onset breast cancer gene (BRCA1) has been localized to chromosome 17q21. To char... more A familial early-onset breast cancer gene (BRCA1) has been localized to chromosome 17q21. To characterize this region and to aid in the identification of the BRCA1 gene, a physical map of a region of 1.0–1.5 Mb between the EDH17B1 and the PPY loci on chromosome ...
Genomics
A familial early-onset breast cancer gene (BRCA1) has been localized to chromosome 17q21. To char... more A familial early-onset breast cancer gene (BRCA1) has been localized to chromosome 17q21. To characterize this region and to aid in the identification of the BRCA1 gene, a physical map of a region of 1.0–1.5 Mb between the EDH17B1 and the PPY loci on chromosome ...
Perspectivas em Análise do Comportamento
Na linguagem comum, é feita uma distinção clara entre o mundo da matéria e o do espírito. Embor... more Na linguagem comum, é feita uma distinção clara entre o mundo da matéria e o do espírito. Embora o dualismo seja tipicamente pensado como incompatível com o behaviorismo, uma análise comportamental da autoconsiência sugere que existem boas razões para uma conversa dualista. Algumas qualidades bem conhecidas tanto de aspectos espirituais humanos quanto de um Deus metafísico parecem fluir naturalmente a partir dessa análise (comportamental). Discute-se brevemente a utilização de uma faceta espiritual de self em terapia.
European Journal of Behavior Analysis
Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors, Jun 1, 2018
We previously developed a distress tolerance (DT)-based treatment that showed promising results f... more We previously developed a distress tolerance (DT)-based treatment that showed promising results for smokers with a history of early lapse. In the current study, we conducted a randomized controlled trial of this DT treatment for a general population of smokers not limited to those with a history of early lapse. We randomized 116 participants (41% female) to DT or standard treatment (ST). Both treatments included 1 individual session during Week 1 followed by 7 group sessions during Weeks 2-9 (quit date at Session 4), two 20-min phone sessions, and 8 weeks of transdermal nicotine patch. Results indicated no significant differences between conditions in the primary outcome of biochemically verified 7-day point prevalence smoking abstinence or in time to 1st lapse. Verified abstinence rates in DT were 38.7%, 38.7%, 46.77%, 40.32%, 20.9%, and 17.7% versus 40.7%, 37.0%, 53.7%, 44.4%, 33.3%, and 22.2% in ST at 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, and 26 weeks postquit, respectively. Additionally, we found no ...
Behavior modification, 2018
Research has demonstrated that values and acceptance interventions can increase distress toleranc... more Research has demonstrated that values and acceptance interventions can increase distress tolerance, but the individual contribution of each remains unclear. The current study examined the isolated effect of a values intervention on immersion time in a cold pressor. Participants randomized to Values ( n = 18) and Control ( n = 14) conditions completed two cold pressor tasks, separated by a 30-min values or control intervention. Immersion time increased 51.06 s for participants in the Values condition and decreased by 10.79 s for those in the Control condition. Increases in self-reported pain and distress predicted decreases in immersion time for Control, but not Values, participants. The best-fitting model accounted for 39% of the variance in immersion time change. Results suggest that a brief isolated values exercise can be used to improve distress tolerance despite increased perceptions of pain and distress, such that values alone may be sufficient to facilitate openness to difficu...
Frontiers in psychology, 2017
Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the fi... more Promoting health behavior change presents an important challenge to theory and research in the field of health psychology. In this paper, we introduce a context-driven approach, the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model which is built on Relational Frame Theory. The ACT-based intervention aims to promote individuals' new health behavior patterns through the improvement of the key construct of psychological flexibility, which is defined as the ability to contact the present moment more fully with acceptance and mindfulness as a conscious human being. Building on the psychological flexibility model, implemented through the six core ACT processes, individuals improve maintenance of long term health behavior change through committed acts in service of chosen values while acknowledging and accepting the existence of contrary thoughts, rules, and emotions as part of themselves but not determinant of their behaviors. Taking advantage of this context-driven approach of health be...
International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy
The Psychological Record
APA PsycNET Our Apologies! - The following features are not available with your current Browser c... more APA PsycNET Our Apologies! - The following features are not available with your current Browser configuration. - alerts user that their session is about to expire - display, print, save, export, and email selected records - get My ...
Behaviour research and therapy, Jan 29, 2017
Please note that this is not a retraction, but a temporary take down. It will be published once D... more Please note that this is not a retraction, but a temporary take down. It will be published once Dr Ost's response has been received (it is expected sometime in approximately the next couple of months).The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal.
Journal de Thérapie Comportementale et Cognitive, 2007
Behavioral Assessment, 1992
ABSTRACT Argues that functional analysis has failed to progress as a system of case formulation a... more ABSTRACT Argues that functional analysis has failed to progress as a system of case formulation and treatment guidance primarily due to the lack of replicability of functional analysis as classically conceived and the resultant difficulty in studying it scientifically. Several alternatives are offered: the development of expert systems, logical functional analytic systems, and functional diagnostic categories. Progress in any of these key areas would provide conceptual and practical support for classic functional analysis as a method of diagnosis and classification and as an alternative to the syndromal medical model. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce ... more Monetary payments, energy information, and daily feedback on consumption were employed to reduce electricity use in four units of a university student housing complex. A combined multiple-baseline and withdrawal design permitted both within- and between-unit comparisons. Payments produced immediate and substantial reductions in consumption in all units, even when the magnitude of the payments was reduced considerably. Feedback also produced reductions, but information about ways to conserve and about the cost of using various appliances did not. It was also found that, in general, payments combined with either information or feedback produced no greater effect than payments alone.