I had an amazing opportunity to chat with Dr. Steve Hayes, the Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, as well as ACT and RFT pioneer.

In this episode, Steve and I discuss his forthcoming book on Evolution and Contextual Science, ACT training for Behavior Analysis practitioners (including the upcoming Boot Camp that's taking place soon), and the preparation of today's BCBAs.

Steve mentioned several books and papers in our conversation, and I've tried to capture them all here:

• Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Predicting, and Influencing Human Behavior. 

• The ACT Bootcamp for Behavior Analysts, taking place September 27-30 in Baltimore, MD. (enrollees can save $50 at checkout with offer code BOP).
• Jablonka & Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions.
• Hayes & Brownstein (1986). Mentalism, Behavior-Behavior Relations, and a Behavior-Analytic View of the Purposes of Science.
• The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science website.

I hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did. I'm sure this episode will generate a lot of feedback, and Steve is game for coming back for a Q & A episode. You can follow Steve on Twitter here.

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