Clinical practice faces a progressivity crisis: stagnant effect sizes, failed syndromal strategies, and a growing disconnection between science and practice. Despite decades of RCTs and proliferating protocols, personalization remains elusive, with practitioners lacking guidance for tailoring interventions to particular people. Fortunately, a robust alternative has emerged from work in Process-Based Therapy (PBT) and tools and ideas that are now emerging promise to break through this progressivity barrier. In this talk, the nature of that alternative is described and examples of how it can be applied to clinical practice and research are offered. PBT not a new therapy but a new way of thinking about empirically guided intervention more generally. Dr. Hayes will show how its insights can be applied across the full range of current methods. The argument out forth will be that if we are to create a more progressive field we will need to create the conditions for evidence-based practice to be more focused on practice-based evidence.
CE Learning Objective(s)
Following this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Describe what processes of change are, and how they need to be assessed
- Identify two reasons our current analytic approaches have failed to solve the problem of personalization
- Identify two implications of process-based therapy for clinical practice and equitable, personalized care.
About Presenter [from https://stevenchayes.com/about/]
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. 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 philosophy 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.
Target Audience
This workshop is designed for licensed professionals & advanced graduate students with clinical experience who anticipate seeking licensure as mental health professionals. The instructional level of this presentation is BEGINNER [Dr. Hayes says it will be applicable across all levels of clinical expertise].
- Philadelphia Behavior Therapy Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists*. Philadelphia Behavior Therapy Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- This program provides two (2) hours of CE credits.
- * PBTA now offers CE to psychologists licensed in the state of New York in addition to all other United States. Attestation of full attendance and provision of license number post-event required to obtain certificate that meets NY criteria for CE.
- PBTA is also an authorized provider of CE credits for Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Clinical Social Workers licensed in the state of Pennsylvania. Non-psychologist licensees in other states should confirm with their respective boards if this meets criteria for CE in their specific non-PA states.
- Full attendance with video display is required to obtain CE credit for this program. APA guidelines do not permit PBTA to issue partial CE credits. No refunds are provided for CE programs. No exceptions allowed. Registrants can log in and cancel up to 48 hours before event when registration closes.
Suggested Readings
Hayes, S. C., Hofmann, S. G., & Ciarrochi, J. (2020). A process-based approach to psychological diagnosis and treatment: The conceptual and treatment utility of an extended evolutionary meta model. Clinical psychology review, 82, 101908.
Hayes, S. C., Hofmann, S. G., Stanton, C. E., Carpenter, J. K., Sanford, B. T., Curtiss, J. E., & Ciarrochi, J. (2019). The role of the individual in the coming era of process-based therapy. Behaviour research and therapy, 117, 40-53.
Hofmann, S. G., & Hayes, S. C. (2019). The future of intervention science: Process-based therapy. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(1), 37-50.
