Steven C. Hayes

Assessment is about the adequacy of the concepts and categories we use to partition events.

The Umpires Call them as they are Call them as I see them There is nothing until I call them

Underneath the Argument The Elemental Realist

Underneath the Argument The Formists

Underneath the Argument The Organicists

What They Are Actually Arguing About What is REAL?

The Assumptions of the CBS Umpire are not very well understood by the field. There is a Fourth Umpire

A Different Question What is advancing the game

Begin with the World That Is. The “Real” World but Without its Opposite. The One World. In and With It, We Live.

Here is a trick: Start at the end That is: What do we want?

What we Want? Better treatment and prevention response Processes of change New treatments Etiology and course Precision and scope Integrating levels of analysis

Freeing CBS from the Hegemony of Psychometrics and its Latent Ontology Filter elements by those that, in some contexts, Move with treatment, 0r Moderate treatment, or Comport with basic data Have treatment utility, and so on Then cluster these In other words, hang on to this directive: Functional First Creating A Comprehensive CBS Approach to the Evaluation of Assessment