ABSTRACT
N. Torneke offers a very accessible and comprehensive overview of the centrality of deriving relations in human language abilities. This chapter focuses on a few key principles relevant to the practice of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. The ability to mutually and combinatorially entail apply not just to co-ordination relations, but also to all the other ways practitioners relate. Deictic relations describe relations where additional contextual information is required in order for them to be fully understood. If co-ordination is establishing ‘sameness’ between stimuli, distinction is the ability to establish difference. This is very important for the coherent development of a sense of self, with Relational Frame Theory research having demonstrated a developmental trajectory for the learning of distinction relations.
