Acceptance and Commitment Training Within the Scope of Practice of Applied Behavior Analysis

Igniting Collective Freedom: An Integrative Behavioral Model of Acceptance and Commitment towards Black Liberation

“…Black liberation as a value is similar to the concept; however, it can further verify the individual's connection to the term. Values are defined as "rules that function as verbal motivating operations that increase or decrease the effectiveness of stimuli as reinforcers or punishers, thereby supporting overt behaviors that produce those stimuli" (Tarbox et al, 2020).…”

“…• Values. As a reminder, values are defined as "rules that function as verbal motivating operations that increase or decrease the effectiveness of stimuli as reinforcers or punishers, thereby supporting overt behaviors that produce those stimuli (Tarbox et al, 2020 ■ Lastly, draw arrows between each item on the list that is connected. For example, suppose if one of your items is being told, there is no place for your culture in a specific industry, and the other is being tokenized.…”

“…It means to maintain attention towards stimuli currently present in the environment. It also means noticing one's own attending behavior (Tarbox et al, 2020 The action(s) I will take to achieve my goal is/are:…”

Why We Are Not Acting to Save Ourselves: ACT, Health, and Culture

“…Cognitive fusion refers to a contextually controlled behavior-behavior relation in which private events (i.e., thoughts and feelings) are responded to as if they are literally true, rather than just as simply more stimuli in a person's environment. In other words, ACT views cognitive fusion as overly rigid control of behavior by verbal rules (Tarbox et al, 2020; see also . From an ACT perspective, when a person takes their thoughts literally, it results in insensitivity to direct contingencies of reinforcement by impeding contact with direct antecedents and consequences of behavior (Hayes, Strosahl, & Wilson, 2012c).…”

“…As a procedure (see Assaz et al, 2018;Tarbox et al, 2020), defusion aims to loosen the relationship between thought and action by encouraging clients to see thoughts as verbal stimuli that come and go rather than as verbal stimuli that represent literal truths about external contingencies. From an applied behavior analysis practitioner perspective, defusion techniques aim to reduce the control of overly rigid verbal rules on behavior and facilitate an increase in the range and breadth of one's behavioral repertoire by one responding to such thoughts and rules for what they are: private events (see Tarbox et al, 2020). In a health context, cognitive defusion interventions (e.g., Karekla et al, 2020) can help loosen the rigid functions of verbal stimuli to facilitate an expansion of the person's behavioral repertoire.…”