University of Nevada - Steve Hayes
The University of Nevada lab is focused on creating a scientific paradigm that supports human transformation. It seeks the development of a coherent, pragmatically useful, innovative, empirical, behavioral approach to psychological science that will enable significant steps forward in our understanding of human beings, the creation of human progress, and in the alleviation of human suffering. It consciously tries to give away its research program by supporting the development of successful research laboratories with these goals world wide. The lab has been at the forefront in the development of functional contextualism, Relational Frame Theory, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Doctoral graduates from Steve Hayes's lab who also agree to a "science oath" receive the "Behavioralis Junkus degree" and learn the secret behavioral handshake. This is the list of "Behavioralis Junkus degree" recipients and their first major post-doctoral and / or current positions.
- Robert Douglas "the Z" Zettle
Wichita State University - Jeanne M. Devany
Auburn University
(now at The Grove Clinic, Asheville, NC) - Arlinza E. "Sonny" Turner*
Albert Einstein School of Medicine
* deceased - Irwin Rosenfarb
Auburn University
(now at Alliant University) - Edelgard Wulfert
State University of New York at Albany - David Steele
Greensboro Area Health Education Center
(now at a US military clinic in German) - Joseph Raymond Haas
Children's Behavioral Services, Reno, NV - Susan Melancon McCurry
University of Washington School of Medicine - Durriyah Khorakiwala
Keiser Permanente Hospital
(now in private practice, Pleasanton, CA) - Regina Lipkens
University College of North Wales
(now at Sancta Maria Psychiatric Hospital, Sint-Truiden, Belgium) - Christoph Leonhard
Harvard Medical School
(now at Illinois School of Professional Psychology) - Barbara S. Kohlenberg
Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Reno
(now at the University of Nevada, Reno) - Niloofar Afari
University of Washington School of Medicine - Jacqueline Pistorello
University of Nevada, Reno - Robyn Walser
Weber State University
(now at the Palo Alto VA, National Center for PTSD) - Kelly G. Wilson
University of Mississippi - David M. Sayrs
Pierce College
(now at the University of Washington) - Winifred C. T. Ju
Center for the Disabled, Cohoes, NY
(now at the West Salem Clinic, Salem, OR) - Adam M. Grundt
Dartmouth College
(now at the Hazelton Institute) - Patricia Bach
University of Chicago School of Medicine
(now at the Illinois Institute of Technology) - Richard Bissett
University of Nevada, Reno
(now at Rural Clinics, Carson City, NV) - Elizabeth Gifford
Center for Health Care Evaluation
Palo Alto Veteran's Administration and Stanford University - Jennifer Gregg
San Jose State University - J. T. Blackledge
University of Wollongong, Australia - Akihiko Masuda
University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Two additional esteemed lab graduates are:
Ken Huntley
and
Dosheen Cook
Here are the dissertations that have come from the lab over the years:
COGNITIVE THERAPY OF DEPRESSION: A CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF COMPONENT AND PROCESS ISSUES
by ZETTLE, ROBERT DOUGLAS, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, 1984, 560 pages
STIMULUS EQUIVALENCE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN (RETARDATION)
by DEVANY, JEANNE MARIE, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, 1985, 82 pages
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO CLASSES OF MEASURES EXAMINED IDIOTHETICALLY AND NOMOTHETICALLY
by TURNER, ARLINZA EARL, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, 1986, 332 pages
THE USE OF THERAPIST RULES, SELF-RULES, AND CONTINGENCY-SHAPED FEEDBACK IN THE TREATMENT OF SOCIAL SKILLS DEFICITS IN ADULTS
by ROSENFARB, IRWIN SHIMON, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, 1986, 258 pages
HIGHER-ORDER CONTROL OVER EQUIVALENCE CLASSES AND RESPONSE SEQUENCES: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALOGUE OF SIMPLE SYNTACTICAL RELATIONS
by WULFERT, EDELGARD, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, 1987, 131 pages
CONDITIONAL CONTROL OF EQUIVALENCE AND THE RELATIONS DIFFERENT AND OPPOSITE: A BEHAVIOR ANALYTIC MODEL OF COMPLEX VERBAL BEHAVIOR
by STEELE, DAVID LEE, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, 1987, 136 pages
The effects of verbal consequences for rule-following on sensitivity to programmed contingencies of reinforcement
by Haas, Joseph Raymond, PhD
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, 1991, 209 pages
Client metaphor use in a contextual form of therapy
by McCurry, Susan Melancon, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1991, 262 pages
An analysis of the process of client change in a contextual approach to therapy
by Khorakiwala, Durriyah, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1991, 240 pages
A behavior analysis of complex human functioning: Analogical reasoning
by Lipkens, Regina, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1992, 214 pages
The evaluation, and remediation of obstacles to Japanese/European-American intercultural communication from a behavior analytic perspective
by Leonhard, Christoph Harald, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1994, 180 pages
Transfer of function through equivalence: Modification effects based upon nodality and contextual control
by Kohlenberg, Barbara Saree, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1994, 117 pages
Examining the differential effects of feedback in ply-form and track-form on staff training of consumers in a sheltered workshop
by Huntley, Kenneth Robert, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1995, 104 pages
A study of paradoxical cognitive responding in thought suppression
by Afari, Niloofar, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1996, 148 pages
Acceptance, suppression, and monitoring of personally-relevant unwanted thoughts in women diagnosed with borderline personality disorder
by Pistorello, Jacqueline, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1998, 240 pages
The effects of suppression and acceptance on thought and emotion
by Walser, Robyn Darleen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1998, 189 pages
Relational acquisition of stimulus function in substance dependence: A preliminary examination of drug versus nondrug related equivalence classes
by Wilson, Kelly Gene, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1998, 104 pages
An experimental analysis of the effects of an intrusive academic advising package on academic performance, satisfaction, and retention
by Sayrs, David Michael, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 1999, 101 pages
Acceptance and commitment therapy in the treatment of symptoms of psychosis
by Bach, Patricia Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000, 87 pages
Dismantling instruction to distract from a painful stimulus: Approach/avoidance functions of distracting instructions
by Grundt, Adam Matthew, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000, 155 pages
Toward an empirical analysis of verbal motivation: A possible preparation for distinguishing discriminative and motivational functions of verbal stimuli
by Ju, Winifred Chin-Teh, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2000, 255 pages
Processes of change: Acceptance versus 12-step in polysubstance-abusing methadone clients
by Bissett, Richard Thorman, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2001, 351 pages
Culture and acceptance and control-based strategies: Predictors of psychological adjustment among Asian Americans and Caucasian Americans
by Cook, Dosheen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2003, 99 pages
Acceptance-based treatment of regulatory internal stimuli in nicotine-dependent smokers: A controlled comparison with transdermal nicotine replacement
by Gifford, Elizabeth Ruth van der Veen, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2003, 181 pages
A randomized controlled effectiveness trial comparing patient education with and without acceptance and commitment therapy for type 2 diabetes self-management
by Gregg, Jennifer Ann, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, 2004, 291 pages
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