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Relational Frame Theory in therapyWhat is Relational Frame Theory? - correct answer ✔✔Relational Frame Theory is a psychological theory
of human language from the behavioral school of psychology originally by Steven Hayes.
RFT is a foundational theory underlying Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
RFT aims to explain the link between human language and behavior, and how language influences
behavior.
What is language from an RFT perspective? - correct answer ✔✔Language is the learned behavior of
building and responding to symbolic relations between things and events.
What is learning by relational framing? - correct answer ✔✔Relational Framing is learning by using
language to symbolically relate one thing to another thing in various possible ways or "frames," which
transforms their meaning or "stimulus function(s)" and subsequently influences behaviour in new ways
as we respond to one thing in terms of its symbolic relationships with other things.
What are common relational frames? - correct answer ✔✔Coordination (A is B)
Difference/distinction (A is not B)
Opposition (A is against or the opposite of B)
Comparison (A is more than B)
Condition (If A, then B)
Causal (A happened because B happened)
Hierarchy (A is a part of B)
Perspective/deictic (interpersonal, spatial, temporal, I-here-now, you-there-then).
What are particular framings useful for in therapy? - correct answer ✔✔Coordination & distinction
framings for noticing and describing experientially.
Oppositional framings for exploring values as the flipside of pain and shaping intrinsic motivations.
, Comparison framings for noticing and describing with precision, evaluating the effectiveness of
alternative responses, and tracking contingencies.
Conditional framings for evaluating the effectiveness of behaviours, tracking contingencies, and
normalizing and validating responses.
Hierarchical framings for labelling and categorizing experiences, building a flexible, stable sense of self,
and building meaning and motivation.
Perspective/deictic framings for noticing, distancing, normalizing and validating, compassion, and
building a flexible, stable sense of self.
What do RFT interventions use language to do? And what psychological qualities and skills are enhanced
by RFT interventions? - correct answer ✔✔RFT interventions use language in specific ways to promote
psychological flexibility and meaning making for the purpose of influencing behaviours toward our
values.
By changing symbolic contexts we can change actions.
Learning to take new perspectives and developing skills for flexible perspective-taking enhances
psychological flexibility, empathy, and ability to find new meanings in response to problems.
What are the two overarching goals for applying RFT in therapy? - correct answer ✔✔1) Promoting
flexible sensitivity, which is the capacity to notice various features of the context and to respond to what
is most relevant to building a meaningful life.
2) Promoting functional coherence, which is thinking and making choices based on wholeness and
effectiveness, so that actions are taken in the service of meaningful living.
What is the overarching strategy to achieve these two goals? - correct answer ✔✔The overarching
strategy to achieve these goals is transforming symbolic functions/meanings by altering the
contexts/relational frames.
What are four guiding principles of applying RFT in therapy? - correct answer ✔✔1) Experiential (rather
than didactic) because we need to use language in an experiential way that enhances context sensitivity,
since it is possible for language to be used in ways that interfere with context sensitivity.
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