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Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research
Hayes, Steven C. Merwin, Rhonda M. McHugh, Louise Sandoz, Emily K. A-Tjak, Jacqueline G. L. Ruiz, Francisco J. Barnes-Holmes, Dermot Bricker, Jonathan B. Ciarrochi, Joseph Dixon, Mark R.
Hayes, Steven C.
Merwin, Rhonda M.
McHugh, Louise
Sandoz, Emily K.
A-Tjak, Jacqueline G. L.
Ruiz, Francisco J.
Barnes-Holmes, Dermot
Bricker, Jonathan B.
Ciarrochi, Joseph
Dixon, Mark R.
Author
Hayes, Steven C.
Merwin, Rhonda M.
McHugh, Louise
Sandoz, Emily K.
A-Tjak, Jacqueline G. L.
Ruiz, Francisco J.
Barnes-Holmes, Dermot
Bricker, Jonathan B.
Ciarrochi, Joseph
Dixon, Mark R.
Fung, Kenneth Po-Lun
Gloster, Andrew T.
Gobin, Robyn L.
Gould, Evelyn R.
Hofmann, Stefan G.
Kasujja, Rosco
Karekla, Maria
Luciano, Carmen
McCracken, Lance M.
Merwin, Rhonda M.
McHugh, Louise
Sandoz, Emily K.
A-Tjak, Jacqueline G. L.
Ruiz, Francisco J.
Barnes-Holmes, Dermot
Bricker, Jonathan B.
Ciarrochi, Joseph
Dixon, Mark R.
Fung, Kenneth Po-Lun
Gloster, Andrew T.
Gobin, Robyn L.
Gould, Evelyn R.
Hofmann, Stefan G.
Kasujja, Rosco
Karekla, Maria
Luciano, Carmen
McCracken, Lance M.
Abstract
Throughout its history the strategy and tactics of contextual behavioral science (CBS) research have had distinctive features as compared to traditional behavioral science approaches. Continued progress in CBS research can be facilitated by greater clarity about how its strategy and tactics can be brought to bear on current challenges. The present white paper is the result of a 2 1/2-year long process designed to foster consensus among representative producers and consumers of CBS research about the best strategic pathway forward. The Task Force agreed that CBS research should be multilevel, process-based, multidimensional, prosocial, and pragmatic, and provided 33 recommendations to the CBS community arranged across these characteristics. In effect, this report provides a detailed research agenda designed to maximize the impact of CBS as a field. Scientists and practitioners are encouraged to mount this ambitious agenda.
Keywords
research strategy, processes of change, research quality, prosocial research, idiographic research, social justice
Date
2021
Type
Journal article
Journal
Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
Book
Volume
20
Issue
Page Range
172-183
Article Number
ACU Department
Institute for Positive Psychology and Education
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
Relation URI
Source URL
Event URL
Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open