Keith and everyone else, It has taken a while to digest all your comments here. I'm also looking forward to looking up your article. I'll use your comments...
I keep forgetting to ask - the people (Gareth, Dave, and a few others) who took notes during the research meeting, can you send them to me? Thanks. Jonathan --...
How can we argue if we dont have the FIAT nor the other tool?? (just kiding!) I know people that are developing master projects with FAP and would be awesome...
Hello! I currently work with Emergency Mental Health Services and our role is to evaluate a person's need for psychiatric hospitalization. Hence, we evaluate...
Hi Ken, Marsha's book is of course great. I think the standards of care are published by APA in a book by Bruce Bongar called the Suicidal Patient. It is not...
Hi Jonathan, I am fianally back and we started in our FAP group again, I showed them videos of lectures from Seattle. We are getting down to the final details....
Hi JoAnne, The measure of the alliance that I gave you is a good measure. It is not the only one of course. It is the one we use here in our clinic, and...
Oops this was supposed to go just to JoAnne. Sorry. ... -- Jonathan W. Kanter, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Clinic Coordinator Department of Psychology ...
Hi everyone, First, good job on responding to my last post about assessment. No one responded. But my behavior here is rule-governed not contingency-shaped ...
Ok, Jonathan On the one hand, I like the idea. The new association could offer us a theoretically compatible group (like ABA) with compatible interests-...
Hi Ken, A couple of other resources to check: The Suicidal Patient: Principles of Assessment, Treatment, and Case Management by John A., M.D. Chiles, Kirk,...
My opinion on calling FAP a functional contextualistic treatment: 1) Functional contextualism is a much broader concept than radical behaviorism. 2) Much...
Correction: number 3 should read: I don't believe that linking up with a functional contextualist association implies giving up radical behavioral philosophy....
This is a question for both Luc and Jonathan. Can you, in a nutshell, tell me how functional contextualism differs from radical behaviorism. In particular,...
Bob, I don't think verbal behavior is the issue. In Steve's writings on functional contextualism he's been careful to leave RFT/verbal behavior mostly out of...
In my opinion, the functional contextualism RFT papers describe is not necessarily behavioral (meaning behavioristic). I recognise the markers of this...
hi jonathan, wow, it was august when i wrote to chauncey and promised to get back to you! guess it took me a while to think about these matters too....i didn't...
Without a lot of explanation, I like keeping FAP in its own space. It's original analysis is straight forward Skinnerian and includes some its imperfections....
Hi Ken, Thanks for bringing this important and intriguing subject for review in this forum. This is an important matter due to the gravity of the risk...
Hi all- I just wanted to let you know that Glenn has forwarded me pdf versions of the manuals for the FIAT (Functional Idiographic Assessment Template) and the...
Hi all- I recently started seeing a new client with interpersonal problems and my goal is to do "just FAP." Jonathan and I have been discussing during...
Sara, I believe that when we are not doing FAP, we should do EST. And before you know, you'll catch yourself doing FAP simultaneously. After a few years of ...
Hi Sara The stand I have taken on this issue is to always do an EST treatment if there's one available for the problem at hand. Along with presenting the ...
Sara, In addition to doing behavior therapy/ESTs, you can spend some extra time on presenting problems, goal setting and history-taking; these will guide your...
Hi all- I appreciate the responses I received in response to my question, how do you do FAP when you are not doing FAP? But... I'm asking it again. Jonathan...
... Hi Sara, First, in Reno, we only do FAP when we have hit a bad run of dice at the craps table. But when the dice are cold, we begin therapy by attempting...
Okay consider myself evoked. I think we all agree functional analysis is where it's at. The question is how do we actually began to do a functional analysis....
What do people do when they are not doing FAP? My answer is: Thinking and making observations. Currently I have a client who tends to ramble. Usually he will...
Hi, I am curious if someone could answer this question. I have been brushing up on the concept of reinforcement recently in order to do some trainings for...
Renee, It’s easy to confuse functional and topographical definitions of reinforcement. Functionally defined reinforcement is the increase in the rate of...
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