Applications of Relation Frame Theory

Relational frame theory is a modern behavior analytic approach to language which aims to better understand the link between human language and behavior. From the RFT perspective, any objects or events that are relationally framed become verbal – part of the world as known through relational frames.  As we frame objects, events, and people through our interactions with the socioverbal community, we elaborate our network of related stimuli and, through transformation of functions, the world increasingly takes on new verbally derived functions, beginning when we first learn to frame words and objects as the same and likely continuing throughout most of our lives.