RFT in Early Intervention: Launching the blog

First, I’m so glad you’ve found me and our RFT library—thank you for joining us! I’ve written a few email newsletters over the last couple years, and wanted to share that writing in a more accessible space. I’ll be reposting some material from older emails so those of you who are new can catch up and I can have a clear commitment moving forward.

Over the last two years, Ian and John and I have been spending a lot of time working on new material for a new, comprehensive text on using RFT to promote generative language in early childhood. We’ve updated the material from our previous handbooks, and we’ll be adding considerable new material not only on more advanced relational framing repertoires, but also on establishing important early ones.

In our previous work, we’ve mentioned the importance of joint attention, and establishing a context for learning in which your learner is happy to be with you! We’ve expanded this into a new chapter on creating cooperative contexts for learning, and I’ll be sharing some of that writing very soon. I hope you’ll find it useful—and I’d love to hear how you are using our current work as well.

In the meantime, I wanted to let you know in case you don’t already that I’ve got some relatively new on-demand courses that might be of interest to you (or to your students/supervisees/colleagues—I’d really appreciate help getting the word out!). You can check those out here: https://www.weareconstellations.com/on-demand#rft

And—at Constellations we’re also running two book clubs this spring that might also be of interest, one for Understanding and Applying RFT, and one for Finding Your Why and Finding Your Way: https://www.weareconstellations.com/live-courses