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Kelly G . Wilson
University of Mississippi, Psychology, Faculty Member
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Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Clinical research, Relational Frame Theory, and 15 moreBehavior Analysis, Applied Behaviour Analysis, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Language, Family Therapy, Behaviour Cognitive Therapy, Medical Psychology, Elderly Psychology, Sexology, Neurocognitive Psychotherapy, Neurologic Basis of Mental Disorders, Kefir, and Abnormal Psychology edit
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Kelly G. Wilson, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Mississippi. He is winner of the c... moreKelly G. Wilson, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Mississippi. He is winner of the coveted University of Mississippi Hood Teaching Award and the Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award. He was the first President and Fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and former Representative-at-Large for the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Wilson is a co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and has devoted his career to the development and dissemination ACT and its underlying theory and philosophy. He has published more than 100 articles and chapters, as well as 11 books including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change and Mindfulness for Two: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Mindfulness in Psychotherapy. He has central interests in the application of behavioral principles to understanding topics such as purpose, meaning and values, therapeutic relationship, and mindfulness. Dr. Wilson has broad ties to the international community and has presented workshops and provided consultancy in 32 countries. edit
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Criticisms of Relational Frame Theory: implications for a behavior analytic account of derived stimulus relations. by Steven C. Hayes , Kelly G. Wilson When human subjects learn to select some stimulus B in the presence of another... more
Criticisms of Relational Frame Theory: implications for a behavior analytic account of derived stimulus relations. by Steven C. Hayes , Kelly G. Wilson When human subjects learn to select some stimulus B in the presence of another stimulus A, th.
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Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Mindfulness, Cognition, Parenting, and 15 morePsychopathology, Parent Child Relationships, Relational Frame Theory, Child Behavior Problems, Verbal behavior, Behavior Modeling, Acceptance, Cognitive processes, Theoretical Framework, Conceptualization, Pautas De Crianza, Parent Training, Toma de conciencia, Aceptación, and stressor
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Page 1. ORIGINAL PAPER A Controlled Pilot Evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Training for Intellectual Disability Staff J. Scott Bethay & Kelly G. Wilson & Lindsay W. Schnetzer & Stephanie L. Nassar & Michael J.... more
Page 1. ORIGINAL PAPER A Controlled Pilot Evaluation of Acceptance and Commitment Training for Intellectual Disability Staff J. Scott Bethay & Kelly G. Wilson & Lindsay W. Schnetzer & Stephanie L. Nassar & Michael J. Bordieri ...
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El ser humano utiliza el lenguaje para moldear su mundo, para estructurarlo y darle sentido. El lenguaje construye nuestros rascacielos, contribuye a la fuerza de nuestro acero, crea la elegancia de nuestras matemáticas y forma la... more
El ser humano utiliza el lenguaje para moldear su mundo, para estructurarlo y darle sentido. El lenguaje construye nuestros rascacielos, contribuye a la fuerza de nuestro acero, crea la elegancia de nuestras matemáticas y forma la representación de la belleza en nuestro arte. El lenguaje ha sido la fuente de tantos logros humanos que es natural que lo utilicemos de forma prioritaria para identificar un problema y elaborar una solución. Pero, precisamente porque el lenguaje puede sernos tan útil, también puede ser problemático. El lenguaje no solo permite los logros humanos, sino también nuestra capacidad para proyectar futuros terribles, para compararnos con ideales irreales y encontrar nuestras carencias, o para atormentar nuestras almas con la finitud de la vida misma. El lenguaje está en el centro de la habitual tendencia humana de sufrir en medio de la abundancia...
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(CBT). As the CBT family has grown and evolved, acceptance has become both a more explicit and more prominent focus of treatment. Two significant bodies of evidence make this shift sensible. First, there is an emerging and diverse body of... more
(CBT). As the CBT family has grown and evolved, acceptance has become both a more explicit and more prominent focus of treatment. Two significant bodies of evidence make this shift sensible. First, there is an emerging and diverse body of evidence suggestive of the ...
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(CBT). As the CBT family has grown and evolved, acceptance has become both a more explicit and more prominent focus of treatment. Two significant bodies of evidence make this shift sensible. First, there is an emerging and diverse body of... more
(CBT). As the CBT family has grown and evolved, acceptance has become both a more explicit and more prominent focus of treatment. Two significant bodies of evidence make this shift sensible. First, there is an emerging and diverse body of evidence suggestive of the ...
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Page 1. SECOND EDITION Acceptance and Commitment Therapy The Process and Practice of Mindful Change Steven C. Hayes Kirk D. Strosahl Kelly G. Wilson L 4' I I i .MH+m Page 2. AcceptAnce And commitment therApy Page 3. Page... more
Page 1. SECOND EDITION Acceptance and Commitment Therapy The Process and Practice of Mindful Change Steven C. Hayes Kirk D. Strosahl Kelly G. Wilson L 4' I I i .MH+m Page 2. AcceptAnce And commitment therApy Page 3. Page 4. ...
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IntroductionRelational frame theory contains a foundational assumption that coherence (i.e., making sense) is reinforcing for verbally competent humans. That is, it is assumed that humans relate ambiguous stimuli together because they... more
IntroductionRelational frame theory contains a foundational assumption that coherence (i.e., making sense) is reinforcing for verbally competent humans. That is, it is assumed that humans relate ambiguous stimuli together because they have an extensive learning history where doing so resulted in both effective environmental action and socially mediated reinforcement (e.g., praise, positive attention).MethodsThis investigation tested this core assumption of relational frame theory by analyzing response patterns to ambiguous stimuli in a matching-to-sample task (Study 1) and by assessing whether participants displayed a preference toward coherent contexts in a concurrent chains preparation (Study 2).ResultsThe majority of participants responded to ambiguous stimuli in ways that were internally consistent and congruent with their previous learning histories in the absence of any programmed contingencies. Many participants also displayed a preference toward contexts where coherent responding was possible, and there was a trend toward switching away in preference when it became increasingly costly to access the coherent context.DiscussionThe major theoretical contributions of these findings are discussed.
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Abstract When individuals are engaging in behavior that is under aversive control, the behavior becomes relatively insensitive to changes in the environment except for escape or avoidance contingencies. Teaching individuals to increase... more
Abstract When individuals are engaging in behavior that is under aversive control, the behavior becomes relatively insensitive to changes in the environment except for escape or avoidance contingencies. Teaching individuals to increase behavioral and psychological flexibility in the presence of potentially aversive stimuli is a goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). ACT therapists use personal values to motivate clients to engage in meaningful behaviors despite ever-changing, and often aversive, contexts. The aim of the current study was to examine the effects of a values intervention on participant’s willingness to approach established aversive stimuli. College students (n = 200) completed questionnaires and participated in behavioral approach tasks with aversive stimuli. Individuals were more likely to approach if approach was related to a personal value versus a relatively arbitrary reward (i.e. tickets) or without any specified consequence. Psychological inflexibility did not moderate the relationship between condition and approach. However, the values intervention condition did produce greater levels of approach than the control conditions. Previous studies have examined the impact of combined values and acceptance interventions. The evidence from this study suggests that values interventions alone may influence behavior.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant stress and anxiety for many parents around the world. Psychological flexibility and self-care are fundamental aspects of psychological health (Kashdan & Rottenberg, 2010). For parents,... more
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant stress and anxiety for many parents around the world. Psychological flexibility and self-care are fundamental aspects of psychological health (Kashdan & Rottenberg, 2010). For parents, shaping these processes may help promote family nurturance, support children’s prosocial behavior, and provide effective and consistent use of evidence-based parenting “kernels”. The goal of this article is to provide practitioners with evidence-based tools that will support psychological flexibility, self-care, and positive parenting behaviors in caregivers during COVID-19 and beyond.
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Criticisms of Relational Frame Theory: implications for a behavior analytic account of derived stimulus relations. by Steven C. Hayes , Kelly G. Wilson When human subjects learn to select some stimulus B in the presence of another... more
Criticisms of Relational Frame Theory: implications for a behavior analytic account of derived stimulus relations. by Steven C. Hayes , Kelly G. Wilson When human subjects learn to select some stimulus B in the presence of another stimulus A, th.
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Part I: The Problem and the Approach. The Dilemma of Human Suffering. The Philosophical and Theoretical Foundation of ACT. The ACT Model of Psychopathology and Human Suffering. Part II: Clinical Methods. Creative Hopelessness: Challenging... more
Part I: The Problem and the Approach. The Dilemma of Human Suffering. The Philosophical and Theoretical Foundation of ACT. The ACT Model of Psychopathology and Human Suffering. Part II: Clinical Methods. Creative Hopelessness: Challenging the Normal Change Agenda. Control is the Problem, Not the Solution. Building Acceptance by Defusing Language. Discovering Self, Defusing Self. Valuing. Willingness and Commitment: Putting ACT into Action. Part III: Using ACT. The Effective ACT. Therapeutic Relationship. ACT in Context.
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Las respuestas relacionales derivadas se presentan como una especie de grano o semilla de la que puede crecer un análisis de conducta del lenguaje y la cognición. Tiene una evidente similitud con los fenómenos del lenguaje, como, por... more
Las respuestas relacionales derivadas se presentan como una especie de grano o semilla de la que puede crecer un análisis de conducta del lenguaje y la cognición. Tiene una evidente similitud con los fenómenos del lenguaje, como, por ejemplo, en lo relativo a la bidireccionalidad entre palabras y referentes. Desde el punto de vista de la teoría conductual, las respuestas relaciones derivadas no son resultados que cabría esperar, y, por tanto, requieren de un análisis...
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Page 173. STEVEN C. HAYES, KELLY G. WILSON, AND ELIZABETH V. GIFFORD Consciousness and Private Events One of the most important philosophical criticisms leveled at behaviorism is that it lacks the tools required ...
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Abstract Acceptance and mindfulness components are increasingly incorporated into treatment for eating disorders with promising results. The development of measures of proposed change processes would facilitate ongoing scientific... more
Abstract Acceptance and mindfulness components are increasingly incorporated into treatment for eating disorders with promising results. The development of measures of proposed change processes would facilitate ongoing scientific progress. The current series of studies evaluated one such instrument, the Body Image-Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (BI-AAQ), which was designed to measure body image flexibility. Study one focused on the generation and reduction of items for the BI-AAQ and a demonstration of construct validity. Body image flexibility was associated with increased psychological flexibility, decreased body image dissatisfaction, and less disordered eating. Study two demonstrated adequate internal consistency and test–retest reliability of BI-AAQ. Study three extended findings related to structural and construct validity, and demonstrated an indirect effect of body image dissatisfaction on disordered eating via body image flexibility. Research and clinical utility of the BI-AAQ are discussed. The BI-AAQ is proposed as a measure of body image flexibility, a potential change process in acceptance-oriented treatments of eating disorders.
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Psychology, Cognitive Science, Semantics, Attention, Adolescent, and 15 moreMedicine, Motivation, Students, Classical Conditioning, Humans, Discrimination Learning, Female, Male, Conditional Discrimination, Matching to Sample, Research Articles, Adult, Operant Conditioning, Short Term Memory, and Instructional Effects
This study aimed to isolate the conditions under which aversive stimulation is experienced as more or less discomforting/unpleasant. Discomfort was induced by playing loud noises through headphones while participants performed computer... more
This study aimed to isolate the conditions under which aversive stimulation is experienced as more or less discomforting/unpleasant. Discomfort was induced by playing loud noises through headphones while participants performed computer tasks. We employed 4 main conditions. Condition 1: the acceptance-based protocol (ACT), intended to integrate discomfort in a valued direction, was implemented before the Inclusion Task (task performance could continue despite the presence of the noise). Subsequently, the experiential avoidance-based protocol (EA), intended to promote a relation of opposition between discomfort and valued actions, was implemented before the Opposition Task (task performance was suspended until the participants eliminated the sounds). Condition 2: this order was reversed. Conditions 3 and 4: the tasks were presented without any protocol. The ACT protocol produced the lowest level of discomfort, particularly when it was implemented before participants had experimental e...
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Psychology, Acoustics, Behavior Modification, Auditory Perception, Psychoacoustics, and 15 moreBehavior, Protocol Analysis, Comparative Study, Medicine, Prevention, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Humans, Coping, Evaluation methods, Suffering, Analysis of Variance, Stimulation, Aversive Stimulation, Physical Comfort, and Acoustic Stimulation
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We are all whole, complete, and perfect regardless of the circumstances or presenting problem (Murrell, 2006). This is the major assumption that has guided our work in the schools and will organize the work in this chapter. All of our... more
We are all whole, complete, and perfect regardless of the circumstances or presenting problem (Murrell, 2006). This is the major assumption that has guided our work in the schools and will organize the work in this chapter. All of our work in educational settings ...
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We are all whole, complete, and perfect regardless of the circumstances or presenting problem (Murrell, 2006). This is the major assumption that has guided our work in the schools and will organize the work in this chapter. All of our... more
We are all whole, complete, and perfect regardless of the circumstances or presenting problem (Murrell, 2006). This is the major assumption that has guided our work in the schools and will organize the work in this chapter. All of our work in educational settings ...
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has emerged as an innovative member of the broad family of cognitive behavior therapies (CBTs). To understand the place of mindfulness in ACT, it is necessary to understand the place of ACT within... more
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) has emerged as an innovative member of the broad family of cognitive behavior therapies (CBTs). To understand the place of mindfulness in ACT, it is necessary to understand the place of ACT within the broader CBT family. This chapter locates ACT within the CBT tradition and highlights similarities and differences with both traditional and contemporary cognitive behavior therapies. The chapter provides an overview of the six core processes of the ACT model, followed by a case example that illustrates assessment and treatment strategies linked to ACT processes. The centrality of mindfulness processes within the ACT model is discussed and examined in relation to a comparison of mindfulness among various branches of CBT. The related concepts of distancing, metacognitive awareness, and defusion are examined in light of the distinctions outlined in earlier part of the chapter. The chapter concludes with an overview of the ACT treatment development s...