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Steven C. Hayes

{{Short description|American psychologist}}

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| birth_date = August 12, 1948

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| nationality = American

| workplaces = {{unbulleted list|University of North Carolina at Greensboro|University of Nevada, Reno}}

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| known_for = {{unbulleted list|Relational frame theory|Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)|Process-based therapy (PBT)}}

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| education = {{unbulleted list|Loyola Marymount University|West Virginia University}}

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Steven C. Hayes (born August 12, 1948){{refn|name=Cloud}} is an American clinical psychologist and Nevada Foundation Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno Department of Psychology, where he is a faculty member in their Ph.D. program in behavior analysis{{refn|name=UnivNevadaReno}}. He is known for developing relational frame theory, an account of human higher cognition, and as the co-developer of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods, and is the co-developer of process-based therapy (PBT), a new approach to evidence-based therapies more generally. He also coined the term clinical behavior analysis.

Hayes is the author of 47 books and 675 articles. His books have been published in 20 languages.{{cite web |title=ACT Books in 20+ languages |url=https://contextualscience.org/act_books_in_20_languages |access-date=19 July 2022 |website=Contextualscience.org}} {{As of|January 2022}}, Google Scholar data ranks Hayes among the top 1,000 most cited living scholars in all areas of study worldwide.{{cite web |title=Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles |url=https://webometrics.info/en/hlargerthan100 |access-date=2022-07-19 |publisher=Webometrics Ranking of World Universities}} {{As of|December 2021}}, Research.com data ranks Hayes as the #63 Top Scientist in Psychology in the world and the #39 Top Scientist in Psychology in the United States.{{cite web |title=Top Psychology Scientists |url=https://research.com/scientists-rankings/psychology |access-date=2022-07-25 |publisher=Research.com}} He was listed in 1992 by the Institute for Scientific Information as the 30th "highest impact" psychologist. According to Time columnist John Cloud, "Steven Hayes is at the top of his field. A past president of the distinguished Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, he has written or co-written some 300 peer-reviewed articles and 27 books. Few psychologists are so well published".{{refn|name=Cloud}}

Career

Hayes received his B.A. in psychology from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from West Virginia University. After completing his clinical internship under David Barlow at the Brown University School of Medicine, he joined the Department of Psychology faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1986, he became a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno.{{Cite web|url=https://www.abainternational.org/constituents/bios/stevenhayes.aspx|title=Steven C. Hayes Bio|website=abainternational.org|access-date=30 July 2022}}

Hayes has been president of the American Psychological Association Division 25, the president of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, the president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies,{{Cite web|url=https://www.abct.org/about/abct-history/past-presidents/|title=Past Presidents - History of ABCT|website=Abct.org|access-date=8 July 2022}} and the president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science,{{Cite web|url=https://contextualscience.org/20082009_board_of_directors|title=2008-2009 Board of Directors | Association for Contextual Behavioral Science|website=Contextualscience.org|access-date=8 July 2022}} and the first secretary-treasurer of the Association for Psychological Science. He served a 5-year term on the National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse in the National Institutes of Health.{{refn|name=UnivNevadaReno}} He is on the advisory board of USERN{{Cite web|url=https://usern.tums.ac.ir/Info/Board|title=USERN BOARD - USERN|website=Usern.tums.ac.ir|access-date=8 July 2022}} and is president of the Institute for Better Health.{{refn|name=UnivNevadaReno}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibh.com/about-ibh.html|title=About IBH|website=Ibh.com|access-date=8 July 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://stevenchayes.com/about/|title=About|website=Stevenhayes.com|date=31 August 2012|access-date=8 July 2022}}

In 2022, Hayes was involved in a controversy over two papers he published with David Barlow and Kelly Brownell in 1977 and 1983 about the practice of covert sensitization in homosexual and transgender individuals with the intent of changing their sexual arousal and gender identity.{{Cite journal |last1=Brownell |first1=Kelly D. |last2=Hayes |first2=Steven C. |last3=Barlow |first3=David H. |date=1977 |title=Patterns of appropriate and deviant sexual arousal: The behavioral treatment of multiple sexual deviations. |url=http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/0022-006X.45.6.1144 |journal=Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology |language=en |volume=45 |issue=6 |pages=1144–1155 |doi=10.1037/0022-006X.45.6.1144 |pmid=925223 |issn=1939-2117}}{{Cite journal |last1=Hayes |first1=Steven C. |last2=Brownell |first2=Kelly D. |last3=Barlow |first3=David H. |date=1983-01-01 |title=Heterosocial-skills training and covert sensitization. Effects on social skills and sexual arousal in sexual deviants |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967%2883%2990007-4 |journal=Behaviour Research and Therapy |series=Special Announcement |language=en |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=383–392 |doi=10.1016/0005-7967(83)90007-4 |pmid=6138027 |issn=0005-7967}} The controversy emerged following a letter Hayes, along with 36 other past presidents of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, signed regarding the organization's role in the practice of conversion therapy.{{Cite web |last=ABCT |date=2022-06-10 |title=ABCT Apology for Behavior Therapy's Contribution to the Development and Practice of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Change Efforts: History and Next Steps |url=https://www.abct.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Untitled-document-6.pdf |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)}} Although the letter did not name Barlow, Brownwell, or Hayes as individuals who engaged in these research practices,{{Cite web |title=Conversion therapy apology statement raises questions |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/06/14/conversion-therapy-apology-statement-raises-questions |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=www.insidehighered.com |language=en}} Hayes created a personal apology and requested that his research be retracted.{{Citation |title=Steve Hayes on Conversion therapy | date=13 June 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4E5LUEgg60 |language=en |access-date=2022-08-17}}

Scientific contributions

Hayes developed a widely used and evidence-based psychological intervention often used in counseling called acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT),{{cite web |url=https://contextualscience.org/act |title=About ACT |website=Contextualscience.org |publisher=Association for Contextual Behavioral Science |access-date=2022-07-19}}Hayes, S. C., Strosahl, K. D., & Wilson, K. G. (1999). Acceptance and commitment therapy: An experiential approach to behavior change. Guilford Press.{{Cite journal|last=Dougher|first=Michael J.|title=This is not B. F. Skinner's behavior analysis: A review of Hayes, Strosahl, and Wilson's Acceptance and Commitment Therapy|journal=Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis|language=en|volume=35|issue=3|pages=323–336|doi=10.1901/jaba.2002.35-323|pmc=1284396|date=2002}} There are currently over 900 randomized trials of acceptance and commitment therapy{{cite web |url=https://contextualscience.org/act_randomized_controlled_trials_since_1986 |title=ACT Randomized Controlled Trials since 1986 |website=Contextualscience.org |publisher=Association for Contextual Behavioral Science |access-date=2021-08-02}} and as the result of multiple randomized trials of ACT by the World Health Organization, WHO now distributes ACT-based self-help for “anyone who experiences stress, wherever they live, and whatever their circumstances.”{{cite web |url= https://www.who.int/publications-detail/9789240003927 |title=Doing What Matters in Times of Stress |website=Who.int |access-date=2022-03-30}} Organizations that have stated that acceptance and commitment therapy is empirically supported in certain areas or as a whole according to their standards include: Society of Clinical Psychology (American Psychological Association Division 12), World Health Organization, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Australian Psychological Society, Netherlands Institute of Psychologists: Sections of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation, Sweden Association of Physiotherapists, SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices, the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense.{{cite web|url=https://contextualscience.org/state_of_the_act_evidence |title=State of the ACT Evidence |website=contextualscience.org |publisher=Association for Contextual Behavioral Science |access-date=2022-08-10}}

Hayes developed relational frame theory (RFT), an account of human higher cognition.{{cite book|last=Hayes|first=Steven|chapter=A relational control theory of stimulus equivalence.|editor1= L. J. Hayes |editor2=P. N. Chase|year=1991|title=Dialogues on verbal behavior |pages=19–40|publisher=Context Press}} Approximately 300 studies have tested RFT ideas.{{cite journal|author1=O'Connor, M. |author2=Farrell, L. |author3=Munnelly, A. |author4=McHugh, L.|year=2017 |title=Citation analysis of relational frame theory: 2009–2016|journal=Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science|volume=6|issue=2 |pages=152–158|doi=10.1016/j.jcbs.2017.04.009|bibcode=2017JCBS....6..152O }}

In collaboration with Stefan Hofmann, David Sloan Wilson, Joseph Ciarrochi, and others, Hayes has been developing process-based therapy (PBT), an idiographic treatment approach based on cognitive behavioral therapy that combines insights from evolution theory and complex network theory to target processes that underlie effective psychological treatments.{{Cite journal|last=Hayes|first=Steven C.|author2=Ciarrochi, J.|author3=Hofmann, S.|author4=Chin, F.|author5=Sahdra, B.|date=2022-03-15|title=Evolving an idionomic approach to processes of change: Towards a unified personalized science of human improvement|url=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104155|journal=Behaviour Research and Therapy|volume=156|issue=September 2022|pages=104155|doi=10.1016/j.brat.2022.104155|pmid=35863243 |s2cid=250272115 }}

Awards

  • Nevada System of Higher Education: Nevada Regents’ Researcher Award (2022){{cite web|url=https://nshe.nevada.edu/2022/03/2022-regents-awards-recipients-named/|title=2022 Regents' Awards Recipients Named|publisher=Nevada System of Higher Education|access-date=2022-08-10}}
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science: Fellow (2018){{cite web|url=https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2018/aaas-fellow-hayes|title=Foundation Professor of Psychology elected AAAS Fellow|publisher=University of Nevada, Reno|access-date=2022-08-10}}
  • Association for Contextual Behavioral Science: Fellow (2012){{cite web|url=https://contextualscience.org/acbs_fellows|title=ACBS Fellows|publisher=Association for Contextual Behavioral Science|access-date=2022-08-10}}
  • Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis: Impact of Science on Application (2007){{cite web|url=http://saba.abainternational.org/awards/Scientific-Translation/?SATypeID=AISA|title=Scientific Translation Awards|publisher=Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis|access-date=2022-08-10}}
  • Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies: Career/Lifetime Achievement Award (2007){{cite web|url=https://www.abct.org/membership/abct-awards/past-award-winners/|title=ABCT Past Award Winners|publisher=Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies|access-date=2022-08-10}}
  • American Psychological Association Division 25: Don Hake Translational Research Award (2000){{cite web|url=https://www.apadivisions.org/division-25/awards/hake?tab=3|title=Don Hake Translational Research Award|publisher=APA Div 25|access-date=2022-08-10}}
  • Nevada System of Higher Education: Regents' Mid-Career Researcher of the Year (2000)
  • University of Nevada, Reno: Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award (1997){{cite web|url=https://www.unr.edu/research-innovation/research-hub/outstanding-researcher/recipients|title=Winners of the Outstanding Researcher Award|publisher=University of Nevada, Reno|access-date=2022-08-10}}

Selected works

  • Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (Eds.). (2001). Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. New York: Plenum Press. {{ISBN|0-306-46600-7}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Hayes|first=Steven C.|date=2004-01-01|title=Acceptance and commitment therapy, relational frame theory, and the third wave of behavioral and cognitive therapies|url=https://zenodo.org/record/850397|journal=Behavior Therapy|volume=35|issue=4|pages=639–665|doi=10.1016/S0005-7894(04)80013-3}}
  • {{cite book | first=Steven C. | last=Hayes |author2=Spencer Smith | year=2005 | title=Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy | publisher=New Harbinger Publications |isbn=1-57224-425-9 }}
  • {{cite book | first=Steven C. | last=Hayes |author2=Kirk D. Strosahl |author3=Kelly G. Wilson | year=2011 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_xAm0VF4X8C | title=Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Second Edition: The Process and Practice of Mindful Change | edition=2nd | publisher=Guilford Press |isbn=978-1-60918-962-4}}
  • {{cite book | editor1-first=Steven C. | editor1-last=Hayes | editor2-first=Victoria M. | editor2-last=Follette | editor3-first=Marsha M. | editor3-last=Linehan | year=2011 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tr0N7aGgAS4C | title=Mindfulness and Acceptance: Expanding the Cognitive-Behavioral Tradition | publisher=Guilford Press |isbn=978-1-60918-989-1}}
  • Hayes, S. C., Villatte, M., Levin, M. & Hildebrandt, M. (2011). Open, aware, and active: Contextual approaches as an emerging trend in the behavioral and cognitive therapies. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 7,141-168. doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032210-104449
  • Wilson, D. S., & Hayes, S. C. (2018). Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Behavior. Menlo Park, CA: New Harbinger Press.
  • Hayes, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (Eds.) (2018). "Process-based CBT: The science and core clinical competencies of cognitive behavioral therapy". Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. {{ISBN|978-1-62625-596-8}}.
  • Hayes, Steven C. (2019). [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0NDDwAAQBAJ&q=liberated+mind A Liberated Mind] New York: Penguin/Avery.
  • Atkins, P. W. D., Wilson, D. S., & Hayes, S. C. (2019). Prosocial: Using evolutionary science to build productive, equitable, and collaborative groups. New Harbinger
  • Hayes, S. C. & Hofmann, S. G. (Eds.) (2020). Beyond the DSM: Toward a process-based alternative for diagnosis and mental health treatment. Oakland, CA: Context Press / New Harbinger Publications. {{ISBN|978-1-68403-661-5}}.
  • Hofmann, S. G., Hayes, S. C., & Lorscheid, D. (2021). Learning process-based therapy: A skills training manual for targeting the core processes of psychological change in clinical practice. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Press. {{ISBN|1-68403-755-7}}.

References

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{{cite magazine |last=Cloud |first=John |title=The Third Wave of Therapy |journal=Time Magazine |date=13 February 2006 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1156613,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060208033248/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1156613,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 8, 2006 |access-date=16 July 2011}}

{{Cite web|url=https://www.unr.edu/psychology/faculty/steven-hayes|title=Steven Hayes | Department of Psychology|website=University of Nevada, Reno|access-date=25 July 2022}}

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External links

  • {{official website|http://www.stevenchayes.com/}}
  • [https://www.unr.edu/psychology/faculty/steven-hayes Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D. at the University of Nevada, Reno]
  • [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_QUS_ZoAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]

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