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Dermot Barnes-Holmes

Dermot Barnes-Holmes

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Psychology

D-Index
81
Citations
22696
World Ranking
1400
National Ranking
165

Overview

Dermot Barnes-Holmes is affiliated with the University of Ulster in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily revolves around psychology, with a significant focus on developmental and educational psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, as well as sociology and political science. The scientist's work is broadly connected to behavioral and psychological studies, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, autism spectrum disorder research, child and animal learning development, psychotherapy techniques and applications, cognitive and psychological constructs research, and behavioral health and interventions.

Recent key publications include:

  • Report of the ACBS Task Force on the strategies and tactics of contextual behavioral science research, 2021, Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Updating RFT (More Field than Frame) and its Implications for Process-based Therapy, 2020, The Psychological Record
  • Relational frame theory 20 years on: The Odysseus voyage and beyond, 2022, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
  • The Study of Rule-Governed Behavior and Derived Stimulus Relations: Bridging the Gap, 2020, Perspectives on Behavior Science
  • Verbal behavior development theory and relational frame theory: Reflecting on similarities and differences, 2023, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

They have frequently collaborated with several researchers, with notable coauthors including Colin Harte, Steven C. Hayes, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Ciara McEnteggart, and Maithri Sivaraman.

Their publications often appear in journals such as The Psychological Record, Perspectives on Behavior Science, Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Perspectivas em Análisis do Comportamiento, and Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.

In addition to journal papers, Dermot Barnes-Holmes has contributed to the academic field through book publications, including work published by ABA España eBooks titled Teoría del marco relacional: Un enfoque postskinneriano de la cognición y el lenguaje humanos in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account Of Human Language And Cognition

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Steven C. Hayes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Bryan Roche

  • What Is Learning? on the Nature and Merits of a Functional Definition of Learning

    Jan De Houwer;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Agnes Moors

  • Contextual behavioral science: Creating a science more adequate to the challenge of the human condition.

    Steven C. Hayes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Do You Really Know What You Believe? Developing the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Direct Measure of Implicit Beliefs

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Eilish Hayden;Rebecca Milne

  • A Sketch of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) and the Relational Elaboration and Coherence (REC) Model.

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart;Shawn Boles

  • Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition

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  • Relational frame theory and Skinner’s Verbal Behavior : A possible synthesis

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Veronica Cullinan

  • Perspective-Taking as Relational Responding: A Developmental Profile

    Louise McHugh;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Psychological Flexibility, ACT, and Organizational Behavior

    Frank W. Bond;Steven C. Hayes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Derived Relational Responding as Learned Behavior

    Steven C. Hayes;Eric Fox;Elizabeth V. Gifford;Kelly G. Wilson

  • Self and Self-directed Rules

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Steven C. Hayes;Simon Dymond

  • ESTABLISHING EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS USING A RESPONDENT-TYPE TRAINING PROCEDURE III

    Geraldine Leader;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • The Dominance of Associative Theorizing in Implicit Attitude Research: Propositional and Behavioral Alternatives

    Sean Joseph Hughes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Jan De Houwer

  • The Wiley Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science

    Robert D. Zettle;Steven C. Hayes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Anthony Biglan

  • Establishing Relational Responding in Accordance with More-than and Less-than as Generalized Operant Behavior in Young Children

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets;Paul Strand

  • Perspective-Taking and Theory of Mind: A Relational Frame Account.

    Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Louise McHugh;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Multiple Stimulus Relations and the Transformation of Stimulus Functions

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Steven C. Hayes;Simon Dymond;Denis O’Hora

  • DERIVED RELATIONAL RESPONDING AS GENERALIZED OPERANT BEHAVIOR

    Olive Healy;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Paul M. Smeets

  • Using the Implicit Association Test and the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure to Measure Attitudes Toward Meat and Vegetables in Vegetarians and Meat-Eaters

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Louise Murtagh;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

  • Holding on to our functional roots when exploring new intellectual islands: A voyage through implicit cognition research

    Sean Joseph Hughes;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Nigel Vahey

  • Acceptance versus distraction: brief instructions, metaphors and exercises in increasing tolerance for self-delivered electric shocks.

    Jenny McMullen;Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes;Ian Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Yvonne Barnes-Holmes
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes Ireland Consulting Psychologists Ltd
Paul M. Smeets
Paul M. Smeets Leiden University
Steven C. Hayes
Steven C. Hayes University of Nevada Reno
Bryan Roche
Bryan Roche National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Louise McHugh
Louise McHugh University College Dublin
Simon Dymond
Simon Dymond Swansea University
Robert Whelan
Robert Whelan Trinity College Dublin
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Frank W. Bond
Frank W. Bond Goldsmiths University of London
Geraldine Leader
Geraldine Leader University of Galway

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