Re: ACT and IQ Improvemnt in Children

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Steve: I am applying ACT to my own personal life with your "Get out of your head and into your life." My life in improving in all areas and I have a lot of hope for the future. You are the "real thing" (and that is so refreshing in this world of the bottom line) and it is great to read what you post, Thanks for your work, LarryTo: ACT_for_the_Public Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2011 11:43 AMSubject: Re: ACT and IQ Improvemnt in Children

A few of people who are teachers asked if there are resourcesfor this approachThere are. The best book around is called "Derived Relational Responding"from New Harbinger. It is an edited book by Ruth Anne Rehfeldt,

a former student here at UNR, and -Holmes, Dermot's wife(and a solid ACT researcher too by the way). It is especially focused onspecial ed, but you can see how to do it in other contexts from that book.

The average parent would probably be overwhelmed by it unless theyhad a lot of persistence and some psychology or education backgroundThe original RFT book (, -Holmes, & Roche, 2001) is good too but only if you have insomnia. I think it is the

best thing I've ever written, but it is unreadable.It is best because is it so technically precise -- I but it is unreadablefor the same reason. Languaging about language is justfreakin hard.Sorry for what might look like promos -- I just thought it was

easier to answer to the list rather that to individual emails- S C. Foundation ProfessorDepartment of Psychology /298University of NevadaReno, NV 89557-0062

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or you can try my website (it is semi-functional) stevenchayes.comIf you have any questions about ACT or RFT (articles, AAQ information etc), please first check the vast resources at website of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS): www.contextualpsychology.org. You have to register on the site to download things, but the cost if up to your own values.

If you are a professional or student and want to be part of the world wide ACT discussion or RFT discussions go to http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy/join

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Here is the study if you want to read it.Very small ... but exciting in its potentialI was actually even more excited by the educationallychallenged kids who went from borderline developmentally delayed to normal

RFT is a big part of the science underneath ACT.I developed it in the early to mid 1980's, with the late late Brownstein.It is finally really clicking experimentally and has a life of its own now, above and beyond ACT.

My friends in what I call the "Irish mafia" are a major part of that development-- beginning with Dermot Holmes, a learning psychologist at the National University of Ireland - Maynoothand now his students ( is a student of Dermot).

- S C. Foundation ProfessorDepartment of Psychology /298University of NevadaReno, NV 89557-0062"Love isn't everything, it's the only thing"

hayes@... or stevenchayes@...Fax:

Psych Department: Contextual Change (you can use this number for messages if need be):

Blogs: Psychology Today http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/get-out-your-mindHuffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-c-hayes-phd

If you want my vita, publications, PowerPoint slides, try my training page or my blog at the ACBS site: http://www.contextualpsychology.org/steven_hayes

http://www.contextualpsychology.org/blog/steven_hayes or you can try my website (it is semi-functional) stevenchayes.com

If you have any questions about ACT or RFT (articles, AAQ information etc), please first check the vast resources at website of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS): www.contextualpsychology.org. You have to register on the site to download things, but the cost if up to your own values.

If you are a professional or student and want to be part of the world wide ACT discussion or RFT discussions go to http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy/join

orhttp://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/relationalframetheory/joinIf you are a member of the public reading ACT self-help books (e.g., "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" etc) and want to be part of the conversation go to: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ACT_for_the_Public/join

I put out some stuff about the work of Professor Reuven Feuerstein last year about how his work with brain damaged and traumatised children can significanly increase their IQ back to normal, or even much higher when given the right encouragement. Now I find that ACT (or rather Relational Frame Theory) can do pretty much the same thing with children who might be struggling at school, but also with chidren who are not. This is such exciting news. Wow! I think ACT is the bees knees.

At shcool I was hopeless until I was about 9 years old when I read Alice In Wonderland because it was so good. My grades then went from -E and F to grade B's after that. In secondary school I was in the top class getting good results until the sciences went very mathematical afterwhich I floundered. But in my early twenties I became fascinated by maths and I enrolled for a National Diploma in mathematics and computers and got virtually 100% in all my exams (I was most certainly a perfectionist but I was amazed at the maths I seemed to be doing).

After that I did the Higher National Diploma in the same subject but getting 9 Distinctions and 5 Merits. I'm not boasting at all and I am naturally modest, but I am just amazed at how I went from someone in infant and and junior school who had to leave my class and go to special maths and English lessons because I was so slow, but later in life I was able to do advanced mathematics. When I was in my twenties I realised that my previous poor performance must have been due to my traumatic childhood. I also found out that my Mum was a grammer shcool student herself who was also good at maths.

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The Real Possibility of Raising Human Intelligence

Using Behavioral Interventions based on Relational Frame Theory

Recent Research From This Laboratory Suggests Something Remarkable - That Intelligence Quotients Can Be Substantially Improved Using Relational Frame Interventions to improve the underlying Derived Relational Responding Skills.

A forthcoming paper in The Psychological Record, describes research by Dr. Roche, NUIM, his former doctoral student Dr. Cassidy, and colleague Professor C. (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) which has led to the development of a computer-based intervention that has been shown to significantly raise the intelligence quotients (IQ) of a small group of normally developing and educationally challenged children. In the soon to be published study, the authors report rises in IQ for a sample of 12 children (4 normally developing and 8 educationally challenged), that were significantly larger than those previously thought possible by psychologists.

This is typical of normally developing children. Nevertheless, this average IQ was raised to over 130, which is called high functioning and bordering on what psychologists define as genius. The lowest IQ following the intervention was 128 and the highest was 137. This means that these children's intellectual ability was moved from normal to within the top 2% of the population.

http://psychology.nuim.ie/Interventions_to_Raise_IQ.shtml

The work of Professor Reuven Feuerstein:

http://www.aish.com/jw/id/48914587.html