Functional First

Steven C. Hayes

Assessment is about the adequacy of the concepts and categories we use to partition events.

The Umpires Call them as they areCall them as I see themThere is nothing until I call them

Underneath the Argument

The Elemental

Realist

Underneath the Argument

The Formists

Underneath the Argument

The Organicists

What They Are Actually Arguing About

What is

REAL?

The Assumptions of the CBS Umpire are not very well understood by the field.

There is a Fourth Umpire

A Different Question

What is advancing the game

Begin with the World That Is. The “Real” World but Without its Opposite. The One World. In and With It, We Live.

What game

are we playing?

Here is a trick: Start at the end

That is: What do we want?

What we Want?

Better treatment and prevention responseProcesses of changeNew treatmentsEtiology and coursePrecision and scopeIntegrating levels of analysis

Could we just be

The Psychological Flexibility Model is

a Functional Dimensional Model that so far is Useful

in Mediation, Moderation, Link

to Basis Processes, and Treatment

Innovation

Freeing CBS from the Hegemony of Psychometrics and its Latent Ontology

Filter elements by those that, in some contexts, Move with treatment, 0rModerate treatment, or Comport with basic dataHave treatment utility, and so

onThen cluster theseIn other words, hang on to

this directive: Functional First

Creating A Comprehensive

CBS Approach to the Evaluation of

Assessment