Practical and clinical implications

• RFT isn’t just for research…

Advertisers count on it!

• Hot young people drink beer X, drive car Y, eat at restaurant Z, etc.

• You drink beer X, drive car Y, eat at Z

you hot young thing!

Your dog can train you• “woof” at the bowl = he

wants food• “woof” at the front door =

he wants to go for a walk• “woof” at the back door =

he has to ‘go’• Whine + nudge = he wants

attention• Snout on leg = he wants

the food you are eating

Developmental disabilities

• Teaching language skills• Teaching perspective

taking

Perspective taking

• “Undoing”• Amotivation• Empathy• Theory of mind/social cognition• delusions

Correspondence and hierarchy and transformation of stimulus functions

• “Feeling dirty”• Internalized stigma• Shame for what others have done• Peer pressure• Panic disorder

Altering stimulus functions

• Paradox• Irreverence• Deliteralization– I’m having the thought that…

• In general, increasing defusion

Defused stance towards verbal experience

• Decreasing the frequency or intensity of transformation of stimulus functions or changing the nature of what is transformed