Dermot Barnes-Holmes

Dermot Barnes-Holmes is a Professor at the Department of Psychology at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is known for an analysis of human language and cognition through the development of Relational Frame Theory with Steven C. Hayes, and its application in various psychological settings. He was the world's most prolific author in the experimental analysis of human behaviour between the years 1980 and 1999.^[1] He originally conceptualized and programmed the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and is currently involved in developing it as part of the Implicit Cognition and Behaviour (ICaB) Research Group in NUI Maynooth.

IRAP

The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP),^[2] an implicit measure similar to the Implicit Association Test (IAT), with the key difference being that it measures specific relations between stimuli rather than general associations. It has its theoretical basis in RFT.^[3][4]

Publications (Selected)

Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Roche, B. (Eds.). (2001). Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian account of human language and cognition. New York: Plenum Press. ISBN 0-306-46600-7

Hayes, S. C., Bond, F. W., Barnes-Holmes, D., Austin, J. (Eds.) (2006). Acceptance and mindfulness at work: Applying acceptance and commitment therapy and relational frame theory to organisational behaviour management. New York: Haworth Press.

Barnes, D. (1997). Conceptual and philosophical issues in behavioral psychology. Special issue of The Psychological Record, 47, 527-660.

Barnes-Holmes, D., Luciano, C., & Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2004). Relational frame theory: Definitions, controversies, and applications I. Special issue of the International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 177-394.

Barnes-Holmes, D., Luciano, C., & Barnes-Holmes, Y. (2004). Relational frame theory: Definitions, controversies, and applications II. Special issue of the International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 4, 443-622.

Blackledge, J. T. & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2009). Core processes in acceptance and commitment therapy. In J. T. Blackledge, J. Ciarrochi, & F. P. Deane (Eds.), Acceptance and commitment therapy: Contemporary theory, research and practice (pp. 41–58). Bowen Hills, QLD, Australia: Australian Academic Press.

Lyddy, F., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Hampson, P. J. (2001). A transfer of sequence function via equivalence in a connectionist network. The Psychological Record, 51, 409-428.

Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y., & Cullinan, V. (2000). Relational frame theory and Skinner's Verbal Behavior: A possible synthesis. The Behavior Analyst, 23, 69-84.

Barnes-Holmes, D., Dymond, S., Roche, B., & Grey, I. (1999). Language and cognition. The Psychologist, 12, 500-504.

Gomez, S., Huerta, F., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Luciano, C. (1999). Breaking equivalence relations. Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 17, 1-4.

See also

• Relational Frame Theory
• Experimental analysis of behaviour

References

1. ^ Dymond, S. (2002). The next generation: Authorship trends in the experimental analysis of human behavior (1980-1999). Experimental Analysis of Human Behavior Bulletin, 20, 1-7.
2. ^ Dawson, D.L., Barnes-Holmes, D., Gresswell, D.M., Hart, A.J. & Gore, N.J. (2009). Assessing the Implicit Beliefs of Sexual Offenders Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure: A First Study Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 21, pp. 57 - 75. DOI: 10.1177/1079063208326928 [1]
3. ^ NUI Maynooth http://psychology.nuim.ie/IRAP/IRAP_1.shtml
4. ^ Barnes-Holmes, D., Barnes-Holmes, Y., Power, P., Hayden, E., Milne, R., Stewart, I. (2006). Do you really know what you believe? Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a direct measure of implicit beliefs. The Irish Psychologist, 32, 169-177.

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