Integrating the Psychological Domains of Thinking, Feeling, and Acting - UTOK Conference 2026

Psychotherapy has a long tradition of developing specialized lenses to consider the role of thoughts, feelings, and actions in both psychopathology and psychotherapy. This symposium helps show how those more focused lenses can still be maintained as they are effectively integrated in the context of a larger coherent picture of human psychology. 00:00 - Welcome 03:30 - Structuring the Triad: Acting, Feeling, and Thinking (AFT) 04:30 - Defining Immediate Psychological Experience 05:16 - Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior 08:28 - Core Dynamics of the Adaptive Continuum 10:42 - Cognition & Meaning Making Focal Domain 12:27 - Distinguishing Functional vs. Dysfunctional Cognitions 13:18 - Using Hypotheses to Link Formulation to Change Processes 23:42 - Emotion and Experience Focal Domain 24:48 - Principles of Adaptive vs. Maladaptive Affect (Greenberg/EFT) 33:44 - Behavior and Conditioning Focal Domain 35:45 - Overview of the Five Core Behavioral Hypotheses 50:43 - Clinical Tools 56:20 - Working Interactively across Modalities 56:50 - Operationalizing the Multi-Dimensional Survey in Treatment 1:02:35 - Panel Discussion & Comments 1:05:45 - Q&A