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2020 #1 Newsletter (January)

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Call for Nominations: Board of Directors

It's time again for elections to the ACBS Board of Directors! Being on the ACBS Board is a fun and rewarding experience, and an opportunity to help shape a vibrant, creative, and collaborative contextual behavioral community. This year, we will need to elect 4 new members to the board: President, Student Representative, and 2 Members-at-large. If you would like to nominate someone, please submit them here by January 31.

 

Michael Levin Appointed Editor of Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

We are excited to announce the appointment of Michael Levin, Ph.D. as the next editor of the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science (JCBS). Michael is the co-director of the Utah State University ACT Research Group and a former Associate Editor of JCBS. He replaces Emily Sandoz, Ph.D., as the Editor-in-Chief. We thank Emily for her contributions to JCBS and ACBS.

 

Article Co-authored by ACBS Members Published in Lancet

We are pleased to share a new article co-authored by ACBS members Felicity Brown and Ross White published in Lancet Global Health: Wietse A. Tol, Marx R. Leku, et al. (2020) "Guided self-help to reduce psychological distress in South Sudanese female refugees in Uganda: a cluster randomised trial." Lancet Global Health, Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages e254–63. Click here to read more about this important study on ACT.

 

Belgium-Netherlands Chapter Celebrates its 10th Anniversary

In September 2010, the Belgium-Netherlands Chapter (ACBS BeNe) was founded. Starting from scratch with only a webpage for Dutch speaking members on the ACBS website, the Chapter has grown to a vibrant community with almost 250 members. The ACBS BeNe Chapter will celebrate its 10th anniversary in Antwerp, Belgium on March 19 – 20, 2020. Click here to read more about the chapter.

 

Australia-New Zealand Chapter responds to the Australian Bushfires

On January 7, the Australia-New Zealand Chapter (ANZ ACBS) sent an email to its members which suggested three ways that the chapter could facilitate responding to the Australian bushfires emergency. One suggestion was working with chapter members with expertise in  trauma associated with natural disasters. Click here to read the entire letter from the ANZ Chapter's Board.

 

Evaluating the psychometric characteristics of the Work-related Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (WAAQ) in a sample of healthcare professionals

In JCBS Vol. 14, Johan Holmberg, Mike Kemani, Linda Holmström, Lars-Göran Öst, and Rikard Wicksell evaluate the reliability and validity of the Swedish translation of WAAQ in a sample of 184 healthcare professionals. The paper concludes that WAAQ is a promising measure of psychological health among healthcare professionals. ACBS members can read the paper for free in the JCBS member portal.


ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship

A goal of the ACBS Foundation is to support existing activities within ACBS. The ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship will enable students to attend the annual ACBS World Conference. The scholarship will cover the full conference registration fee for two students. The application dealine is February 15th. For more information about the new scholarship, click here.

 

Michael J. Asher Student Dissertation Awards: Application Deadline February 1, 2020

The Awards Committee is accepting applications for the Asher Student Dissertation Awards, which will be given to two students based on their doctoral dissertation proposal related to the use of CBS with children/adolescents. Accompanying this honor will be monetary awards of $750 USD (first place) and $250 USD (second place) to be used in support of research or to travel to the ACBS World Conference.

 

ACBS World Conference: Call for Submissions

We are excited to invite you to join us in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA for the Annual World Conference of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) July 14-19, 2020. The general Call for oral presentations (symposia, papers, panels, ignites, and workshops) is open until February 15, 2020. Poster submissions will be accepted until March 20, 2020. Click here for more information about the Call for Submissions.

 

ACBS World Conference: Scholarship Application Deadlines

- Developing Nations Conference Scholars - application deadline is February 1
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference Scholars - application deadline is February 1
- Student World Conference Scholars - application deadline is February 15
- ACBS Foundation Student Scholarship - application deadline is February 15



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