FORMACIÓN INTENSIVA EN ACT
Edición 2021

teven C. Hayes is Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 46 books and nearly 650 scientific articles, his career has focused on an analysis of the nature of human language and cognition and the application of this to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering. He is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods. Dr. Hayes has been President of Division 25 of the APA, of the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. He was the first Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Psychological Science, which he helped form and has served a 5-year term on the National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse in the National Institutes of Health. In 1992 he was listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as the 30th "highest impact" psychologist in the world and Google Scholar data ranks him among the top ~1,350 most cited scholars in all areas of study, living and dead. "Living Meaningfully in the Age of COVID" We are used to thinking of "mental health" in terms of its absence. We carefully specify the features of its absence label people with those features with specific psychiatric disorders. About one out of five people struggle in that way and the rest of us are supposed to be compassionate about it. But in this era of COVID there's been a radical change in our understanding. Mental health is about mental strength and flexibility, and it applies to 5 out of 5 of us 24 hour a day, 7 days a week. Given that understanding, what can we say about mental health in this area of COVID? In this talk I describe how the science of psychological flexibility can give a rich and useful answer to that question.