ACBS Newsletter

March 2018

Michael J. Asher Dissertation Award

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Michael J. Asher Student Dissertation Award: Samuel Faulkner, East Carolina University, for his dissertation focusing on using psychological flexibility with youth from a disadvantaged area in order to target health-related behaviors; and second place winner Yuen-yu Chong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, for her randomized control study which examined the effects of a parent training program using ACT therapy for managing children with asthma.

ACBS Board of Directors for 2018 - 2019

It is our great pleasure to announce the 2018 - 2019 ACBS Board of Directors:
President Louise Hayes; President-Elect Dennis Tirch; Past-President Nanni Presti; Secretary-Treasurer Maria Karekla; Members-at-Large Miranda Morris, Lisa Coyne, Amy Murrell, and Jonathan Bricker;Student Representative Sonia Singh.

Student Spotlight Award

In conjunction with the ACBS Student Special Interest Group (SIG), it is our pleasure to introduce the most recent student spotlight award recipient! This month's featured student is Inês A. Trindade, a graduate student studying at University of Coimbra, Portugal. You can learn about Inês and her work here.

Thank You to the Awards Committee

ACBS committees are staffed entirely by volunteers. We want to thank the Awards Committee Chair Joann Wright and her committee members for the stellar work that they do. The Awards Committee recognizes the important works of those who have excelled in various aspects in the field of contextual behavioral science.

Conceptual Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning: Implications for Relational Frame Theory

In JCBS Vol. 6 Issue 3, Nigel A. Vahey, Marc Bennett, and Robert Whelan state that cognitive neuroscience has developed many approaches to the study of learning that might be useful to functionally oriented researchers. The paper explains how cognitive neuroscience can foster conceptual and empirical development in Relational Frame Theory (RFT). ACBS members can read it for free in the JCBS member portal.

Submitting Dissertations to the ACBS Website

Do you have a CBS dissertation? Then please email your dissertation and citation to acbsstaff@contextualscience.org and we will post it on the ACBS website. We know you put alot of work into your dissertation, so we encourage you to share your dissertation so that other ACBS members may read it!

ACBS Annual World Conference 16

See you in Montréal, Canada!
July 24-29, 2018
Click here for more information.

World Conference 16: Pre-Conference Workshop Débuter et approfondir sa pratique de la thérapie d’acceptation et d’engagement (ACT): un atelier de mise en pratique

Frédérick Dionne, Jana Grand, and Jean-Christophe Seznec will be presenting the pre-conference workshop Débuter et approfondir sa pratique de la thérapie d’acceptation et d’engagement (ACT): un atelier de mise en pratique on Tuesday July 24 and Wednesday July 25, 2018 in Montréal. You can read more about the workshop here.

World Conference 16: Invited Speaker Susan David

Susan David, Ph.D., a Harvard Medical School psychologist, studies emotional agility. She recently delivered the TedTalk "The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage" at the official TedWomen Conference. Susan David will give an invited talk at the ACBS World Conference 16 in July 2018 in Montréal. We are excited to listen to her speak to the ACBS community!