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Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition
Relational Frame Theory (2001), edited by Steven C. Hayes, Dermot Barnes-Holmes and Bryan Roche, presents a behaviour-analytic account of language and cognition.
Book details
Author of listed edition: Steven C. Hayes, Dermot Barnes-Holmes and Bryan Roche (Eds.)
Edition: First edition, hardcover (2001)
Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Edition year: 2001
Language and origin: English (United States / Ireland)
ISBN: 9780306466007
Form and genre: Clinical & Theoretical Monograph
Level: Advanced
Historical era: 1980–2009 · Evidence-Based, Trauma & Integrative Era
Covers: The authors’ account of derived relational responding; Relations among language, cognition and behaviour; Theoretical and clinical applications
APA 7th reference: Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (Eds.). (2001). Relational frame theory: A post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
What it is
This edited volume presents relational frame theory, a behaviour-analytic account of language and cognition. The publisher lists chapters on derived relations, experimental research and psychotherapy.
What it covers
The theory examines how people can derive relations between events and how those relations may influence behaviour. For example, learning that A is larger than B can support a derived relation that B is smaller than A. The general account is a theoretical framework, not proof of a single mechanism underlying every person’s experience.
Research and clinical context
The volume includes discussion of psychotherapy. A later review describes research and developments in relational frame theory beyond the 2001 volume. Connections between a theory of language and specific clinical outcomes require separate evidence.
Reading this record
This entry relies on publisher and catalogue information and the abstract of a later research overview. The full volume was not reviewed; this record does not establish a cause of trauma symptoms or a treatment outcome.
Paired academic and clinical scholarship
Paired work: Learning RFT: An Introduction to Relational Frame Theory and Its Clinical Application (Niklas Törneke, 2010)
Reference: Törneke, N. (2010). Learning RFT: An introduction to relational frame theory and its clinical application. New Harbinger Publications.
A later introductory book discusses relational frame theory and clinical applications; the full text was not reviewed.
Sources and inspection notes
Supports: Publisher record identifies the editors, contents, 2001 hardcover ISBN 9780306466007 and describes the volume’s proposed account; the full text was not reviewed.
Indiana University Libraries. Relational frame theory, catalogue record.
Supports: Catalogue identifies the 2001 Kluwer edition, editors and ISBN 0306466007.
Supports: Abstract reviews later empirical and conceptual developments in relational frame theory, beyond the 2001 volume.