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The codeveloper of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and of Process-Based Therapy, Steven C. Hayes has authored nearly 50 books, including a #1 bestselling self-help book, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life as well as A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters. He’s also a popular speaker, whose Ted Talks and blogs have nearly three million views. A former president of multiple psychology and behavioural science associations, he’s among the most cited psychologists in the world, and his many professional honours include a Lifetime Achievement Award from ABCT.
Now, according to Hayes, behavioural science has failed practitioners. For nearly 150 years, the public conversation about mental and behavioural health has been dominated by concepts of what’s “normative.” Therapists are forced to learn lists of signs and symptoms of what supposedly determines wellness and illness, and of supposed latent diseases, which ultimately never turn out to be actual diseases. In the end, this data tells them little to nothing about the trajectories of the lives in front of them. The field indulges this way of working, which is then reified in our culture whenever we publicly discuss psychiatric disorders, personality, intelligence, and psychometric assessment.
In this recording, Hayes will show why this approach is a scientific lie—a “forever failure” that’s provably false. He’ll explain the shocking truth about how and why this has happened—and what can be done about it. And he’ll introduce a new, “idionomic” approach to diagnosis and case-conceptualization that can redefine evidence-based therapy to be far more relevant to the actual world of clinical practice—and fairer to the people we hope to serve.
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Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., is the co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), best-selling author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life and Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and has developed ACT as a way of correcting these processes. Hayes has been president of several scientific societies and has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.
His popular book, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life was featured in Timemagazine among several other major media outlets, and for a time was the number one best-selling self-help book in the United States.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Steven Hayes has an employment relationship with the University of Nevada. He is the President of the Institute for Better Health and the research director at Praxis Continuing Education and Training. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee for MIND Foundation and receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Hayes has a financial relationship with PsychFlex. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Steven Hayes serves on the policy making council for Universal Scientific Education and Research Network. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the Association for Behavioral Analysis International.
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