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{{short description|Professional association for ACT, RFT, and behavior analysis}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

| image = ACBS_with_tagline_cropped.jpg

| caption = Logo of ACBS

| headquarters = [[United States]]

| membership = approx. 78,800000 international members

| leader_title = 20172020 President

| leader_name= Giovambattista Presti, M.D. = Lisa Coyne, Ph.D.

| formation = 2005

| website = {{URL|http://contextualscience.org}}

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==History==

Established in 2005, ACBS has about 78,800000 members.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://contextualscience.org/acbs|title=ACBS - Association for Contextual Behavioral Science|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=11 September 2017}}</ref> Slightly more than one half are outside of the United States. There are 44 ACBS chapters<ref>{{cite web|url=https://contextualscience.org/chapters|title=ACBS - Association for Contextual Behavioral Science|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=14 September 2017}}</ref> covering many areas of the world including Italy,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.act-italia.org/doceboCms/|title=ACT-Italia.org|accessdate=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913204031/http://www.act-italia.org/doceboCms/|archive-date=13 September 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Japan,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.act-japan-acbs.jp/|title=ACT Japan - The Japanese Association for Contextual Behavioral Science|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref> Belgium, the Netherlands,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acbsbene.nl/|title=ACBS BeNe - Nederlandstalige Chapter|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref> Spain, Australia/New Zealand,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://anzact.com/|title=ANZ ACBS Annual Conference 2014 - ANZ ACBS|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref> the Balkans, France,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://300gp.ovh.net/~actfranc/ACT/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=140&Itemid=29|title=AFSCC|first=Benjamin|last=Schoendorff|date=|publisher=|accessdate=11 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604113122/http://300gp.ovh.net/~actfranc/ACT/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=140&Itemid=29|archive-date=4 June 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> the United Kingdom and Turkey. Chapters exist in the United States and Canada as well, including the mid-Atlantic, New England, Colorado, Washington, Ontario (CA), and several other areas. There are also 28 Special Interest Groups covering a wide range of basic and applied areas such as children and adolescents, developing nations, veteran's affairs, ACT for the PublicHealth, social work, stigma, and many other areas.

==Activities==

* ACBS sponsors an annual conference, the ''ACBS World Conference on Contextual Behavioral Science''. The 2017 (15th annual) meeting was held June 20–25, 2017, in Seville, Spain., Thethe 2018 meeting will bewas held July 24-29, 2018, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada., Thethe 2019 meeting will bewas held 25-30 June, 2019, in Dublin, Ireland, and the 2020 meeting was held online.

* In 2012 [[Elsevier]] began publishing the official journal of ACBS, the ''Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://contextualscience.org/JCBS |title=The Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS) |publisher=Association for Contextual Behavioral Science |accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/727090/description#description |title=Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science - 2212-1447 - Elsevier |publisher=Elsevier |accessdate=11 September 2016}}</ref>

* Other activities:

** A scholarship program that sponsors participants from the developing world to attend the World Conferences.

** Listservs for professionals and the public, as well as several list serves for specific language communities. Most chaptersSpecial andInterest SIGsGroups maintain listemail serveslistservs as well. The largest listserv is on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and is for professionals who are ACBS members (see link below) with the second largest listserv focusing on Relational Frame Theory. (The ACT listserv for professionals spawned its own reference books of popular questions/topics called ''Talking ACT'' published by New Harbinger Publications and Context Press.<ref>[https://archive.is/20130129185537/http://www.newharbinger.com/bookstore/productdetails.cfm?PC=523 Talking ACT<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>) There is also a free listserv for members of the public who are reading ACT self-help books (see link below).

** A small grant program for projects in contextual behavioral science.

** The ACBS site also hosts a podcast series available from [[iTunes]] called ''ACT in Context''.<ref>[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/act-in-context/id428173950 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/act-in-context/id428173950]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The association's website contains resources such as therapist tools, workshops, metaphors, protocols, and assessment materials,<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WCyFy08VilIC&pg=PA287#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Social workers' desk reference |author1=Albert R. Roberts |author2=Julia M. Watkins |publisher=Oxford University Press 2009 |year=2009 |accessdate=30 January 2012|isbn=9780195369373 }}</ref> and provides information on recent books on [[acceptance and commitment therapy]] (ACT), Relational Frame Theory (RFT), and Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS).<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gA2ul02-64YC&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Coping with OCD |author1=Bruce Hyman |author2=Bruce M. Hyman |author3=Troy DuFrene |publisher=New Harbinger Publications|date= 1 Jun 2008 |accessdate=30 January 2012|isbn=9781608820511 }}</ref>

==See also==