On November 5, 2024, Anastasiia Shkodina, a PhD student at the Department of Nervous Diseases, took part in the "Frame by Frame" workshop, organized by the professional international organization Contextual Consulting (United Kingdom).

The workshop focused on using an understanding of one’s own language and the language of others as an intervention in patient care. Relational Frame Theory examines generalized derived relational responding—relational framing—as a key skill in human language and cognition. This skill is essential for developing flexible, fluent conversational abilities, academic progress, and forms the critical foundation for psychological flexibility.

At the workshop, Dr. Siri Ming, a behavioral analyst, presented how Relational Frame Theory is applied in practice, offering a functional understanding of behavior in context and what it means to be psychologically flexible, all grounded in scientific evidence.