El contextualismo funcional: fundamentos y aplicaciones

Functional contextualism (FC) is the root scientific philosophy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). This article presents FC and clarifies misunderstandings, showing it as an evolution of Skinner's radical behaviorism from a contextual and pragmatic stance. It differentiates FC from other behaviorisms and notes historical tensions between mechanistic and contextual views. It explains the influence of Stephen Pepper's "world hypotheses," describes four scientific hypotheses, and places FC as a contextualism whose pre-analytic goal is to predict and influence psychological events with precision, scope, and depth. It closes with a discussion on common misconceptions.