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Functional First

This work by Steven C. Hayes examines the adequacy of the concepts and categories used in behavioral assessment. It discusses the various perspectives—realist, formist, and organicist—that influence our understanding of reality and assessment practices. Hayes challenges conventional psychometric approaches, advocating for a "Functional First" perspective that emphasizes treatment utility and the integration of multiple analytic levels. By focusing on psychological flexibility, he proposes innovative treatments and response processes to enhance prevention and intervention in clinical settings.

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Functional First

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  1. Functional First Steven C. Hayes

  2. Assessment is about the adequacy of the concepts and categories we use to partition events.

  3. The Umpires • Call them as they are • Call them as I see them • There is nothing until I call them

  4. Underneath the Argument The Elemental Realist

  5. Underneath the Argument The Formists

  6. Underneath the Argument The Organicists

  7. What They Are Actually Arguing About What is REAL?

  8. There is a Fourth Umpire The Assumptions of the CBS Umpire are not very well understood by the field.

  9. A Different Question What is advancing the game

  10. Begin with the World That Is. The “Real” World but Without its Opposite. The One World. In and With It, We Live.

  11. What game are we playing?

  12. Here is a trick: Start at the end That is: What do we want?

  13. What we Want? Better treatment and prevention response Processes of change New treatments Etiology and course Precision and scope Integrating levels of analysis

  14. Could we just be

  15. The Psychological Flexibility Model is a Functional Dimensional Model that so far is Useful in Mediation, Moderation, Link to Basis Processes, and Treatment Innovation

  16. Freeing CBS from the Hegemony of Psychometrics and its Latent Ontology Creating A Comprehensive CBS Approach to the Evaluation of Assessment • Filter elements by those that, in some contexts, • Move with treatment, 0r • Moderate treatment, or • Comport with basic data • Have treatment utility, and so on • Then cluster these • In other words, hang on to this directive: Functional First

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