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Steven C Hayes - Short Bios 2020 Here are some intro versions you can use in written promotional material or at an event Please shorten them to fit your purpose and consider spicing them up to make them more interesting or relevant for the audience … that why I attach weird facts at the end If you want to see my publications or to get a sense of where I fit in the world of psychology the quickest way is to go to my Google Scholar profile page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_QUS_ZoAAAAJ&hl=en One on my profile page you can click on the subject terms there (psychology evolutionary psychology cognitive science behavior analysis clinical psychology) and see what I rank in terms of citations I’m in the top 10 worldwide in all of these areas (at least among those who list a given term under their own profile page) except “psychology” where I’m ranked 28 th, not counting dead people (e.g., Freud) For podcast or radio shows I suggest this as a quick into Steven C Hayes is a Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno and is the author of 46 books including Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life (which for a time was the best-selling self-help book in the United States), and his new book A Liberated Mind An expert on the importance of acceptance, mindfulness, and values he is ranked among the most cited psychologists in the word If you need a slightly longer one, use this one Steven C Hayes is a Nevada Foundation Professor of Psychology in the Behavior Analysis Program at the University of Nevada An author of 46 books and nearly 650 scientific articles, he is especially known for his work on "Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" or “ACT” [note to speaker: say “act” as a word, not initials] which is one of the most widely used and researched new methods of psychological intervention over the last 20 years Dr Hayes has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy His popular book Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for a time was the best-selling self-help book in the United States, and his new book A Liberated Mind has been recently released to wide acclaim His TEDx talks have been viewed by over 600,000 people, and he is ranked among the most cited psychologists in the word Here is more extended one … can still be used for things is writing (e.g., workshops and the like) but it normally should be trimmed Steven C Hayes is a 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, he is the developer of Relational Frame Theory, an account of human higher cognition, and has guided its extension to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or “ACT” [note to speaker: say “act” as a word, not initials] a popular evidence-based form of psychotherapy that uses mindfulness, acceptance, and values-based methods and has been shown to be helpful in a wide range of areas His popular book Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life was featured in Time Magazine among several other major media outlets and for a time was the best-selling self-help book in the United States, and his new book, A Liberated Mind, has been recently released to wide acclaim Dr Hayes has been President of several scientific societies and has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Google Scholar ranks him as among the most cited scholars in all areas of study in the world (http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/58) This is a heavy one for serious stuff (but it is waaaay too long gang … edit it down No one cares to hear or even to read such a long intro Cut it!) Steven 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 (http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/58) Dr Hayes is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in addition to several other scientific societies His work has been recognized by several awards including the Exemplary Contributions to Basic Behavioral Research and Its Applications from Division 25 of APA, the Impact of Science on Application award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy Weird facts you can use if you want to have some fun or just be creative I love it when podcasters pick up things that fit their audience Steve was a full time environmental activist for a year after college, and his first book (“Environmental Problems / Behavioral Solutions”; written in 1980 with his mentor John D Cone) was on using behavioral science to solve environmental problems Right after college he lived on a religious commune for several months which building a friend a house He still says he’d live on a commune if there was a way to it that was not nutty He decided to be a psychologist in high school because it combined art and science and he loved both He was editor of his college literary magazine Steve’s early psychology interests were in peak experiences and Maslow He became a behaviorist because of Walden II After cutting his 12” long hair as an undergraduate freshman in 1966 in order to enter the Air Force ROTC (and thus stay out of Vietnam), the entire cafeteria crowd at Loyola University (later “Loyola-Marymount”) stood up to clap He was the only person on this all male campus with long hair at that time He lasted one week in the Air Force ROTC By his senior year (1970) there were hundreds of long haired hippies on campus (and he had regrown the hair) He actually did not go to Vietnam because of an error on his birth certificate, which listed his birthday incorrectly as August 13 instead of August 12 because the nurse recorded the time from a clock in the hall on daylight savings time instead of the standard time clock in the delivery room His father was upset because August 12 was his birthday but was unable to change it The lottery number for August 12 was in single digits; the 13th was in the 300s Saved by an error! He took years to get into graduate school, with nearly 40 rejections of admission It turned out that the good Father Ciklic, chair of Psychology at Loyola, put in his letter that he thought Steve was a drug addict He wasn’t … just a hippie doing things that are now legal He later turned down faculty job offers from some of the very schools that refused to admit him as a student He proposed the formation of the Association for Psychological Science, chaired its organizing committee, and edited its newsletter and until it reached about 1,000 members The APS office was in his laboratory, with APS records kept in a dozen boxes on the floor It is now one of the largest psychological societies in the world When he was the first editor of the APS Observer he got the employment bulletin off to a quick start by secretly calling all those who placed ads in the APA Monitor and giving them a free employment ad After months of that trick, almost every job ad in the academy automatically went to both the Monitor and the Observer His publishing company, Context Press, created and sold over 50 different books in its 17 years or existence, changing the face of behavior analytic psychology and helping to establish 3rd generation CBT Context Press was sold to New Harbinger Publications in 2009 It continues as an imprint of New Harbinger and Steve continues to be involved as an acquisitions editor Steve’s wife Jacque is a DBT / ACT researcher and Director of the UNR Counseling Services Center According to Steve she is one of the best grant writers in existence and has had more grant money than 90% of the academic full professors Jacque is a Brazilian from the southern most state in Brazil They are known for being tough “Gauchas.” Steve loves that quality in her Steve and Jacque are working together with New Harbinger Publications to help guide Praxis Continuing Education and Training – a training arm of New Harbinger When he left his first academic job at UNC-G after 10 years he had been so controversial that new assistant professors were being hired at a higher salary than he had All faculty members rated each other and every year Steve’s ratings went from fantastic to horrible in a flat distribution, leading year after year to no raise or a minimal raise He more than doubled his salary when he left UNC-G His research program was from the beginning so broad (from basic cognitive studies to clinical trials) that in his first academic job at UNC-G the annual reviews of his work regularly used words like “dilettante” or its equivalent The chair of his department told him after several years there that he would never amount to anything because his interests were too diverse and he needed to change and narrow his research program He refused, and suffered the consequences Today that program is called “contextual behavioral science” and is now widely viewed as both broad and coherent but back then looked like chaos It wasn’t because he had a vision of how it would all come together though – he just thought the issues were important and refused to bend to the will of senior faculty He has formed or helped to form three scientific societies: APS, the Association for Applied and Preventative Psychology (which hit about 2000 members but eventually folded), and the latest, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science In a bit over 15 years it has grown to about 8,700 members, with 28 chapters worldwide He was Director of Clinical Training and then Chair at UNR for 17 straight years After a decade hiatus he went back as Director of Clinical Training for two years He is now in the Behavior Analysis program at UNR In 2007 he was listed as the 9th most productive clinical faculty person in the country (of about 2000 clinical faculty members) He can trace his academic lineage through his dissertation advisor (John Cone) to a person trained at the University of Chicago during the height of the functionalist movement there (A R Gilliland, who trained Allen Edwards who trained John Cone) Although Gilliland was a psychometrician he wrote one of the very first major articles on the law of effect, and did animal research on the topic Gilliland was trained at the University of Chicago during the era of the functionalist school J R Kantor was a new faculty member there; Angell was Chair of Psychology He can trace his academic lineage through his internship advisor (David Barlow) to Nate Schoenfeld, author of the first book on behavior analysis with Fred Keller (Schoenfeld trained Jim Dinsmoor, who trained Hal Leitenberg, who trained Barlow) Schoenfeld is linked to Woodworth and from there to William James Steve has four children ages 50, 31, 29, and 14 If he survives it we will have had children in the developmental period for 55 years straight before the youngest goes to college He will then be 75 years old and ready to collapse Just in case, he is currently teaching his 14 year old the fun game called “push Daddy.” His eldest Camille once served for years as the public relations guru for the California Consortium on Domestic Violence and fought the “governator” to a stand still over an attempt to cut all their funding She now lives in San Francisco with her photographer husband Camille writes feminist rants … which you can read at her website, LadyTroubles.com or in books such as “Get Out of My Crotch.” After a time as acquisitions editor at New Harbinger Publications, she has become a major player at Callisto Media, one of the fastest growing independent publishing companies Go Camille! Steve’s eldest son Charlie finished film school in Paris and lives in LA where he is a union gaffer in the film industry His second daughter graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design as a film student After working in the film industry doing editorial and post-production work she is now in master’s program in creative writing at Colorado State Stevie is a brainiac and is in full time gifted and talented classes Steve’s favorite music is trance, techno, and chill He is the oldest raver in town He plays guitar but mostly in the acoustic style of the late John Fahey, who he met in Venice, California while a student at Loyola Before trance, his favorite music was punk He has severe tinnitus as a result, and it actually drove him to suicidal thoughts until it occurred to him to apply his life’s work to it ACT solved it 100% in a few days, and it has remained solved in the several years since His ears still ring 24/7 of course, he just does not care, so most of the time he hears nothing because he is not listening His wife says he now too good at not listening For years as an Assistant Professor he did not own a car and through ice, snow, sleet, or rain, went everywhere on his motorcycle, even when Camille, then in elementary school, was perched on the back Steve is an avid Nevada Wolfpack fan, especially in football and basketball He rarely follows professional sports He still loves toys: boats (he owns one), jet skis (he owns two), motorhomes (one of those), motorcycles (none because he made a deal with Jacque to sell his bike when Stevie was born on the condition that he could get his bike back on Stevie’s 14 th birthday Steve has yet to exercise that option)