We would to say to any other members of ACBS that you are invited to join our Chapter (you do not have to live in Peru).

The spaces we are offering for our members that are for free are:

- Reading & Discussion (in English)

• All levels of English are very welcome.
• Description: Here we discuss interesting articles and books related to CBS in a friendly group.
• To register: send us an email chapterperuacbs@gmail.com
• Subject: reading and discussion and Name registered in the ACBS.

- Portland Model Group ( in Spanish )

• Description: Aquí practicaremos las habilidades ACT en un contexto clínico a través de juego de roles o casos personales .
• Para inscribirte debes enviarnos un correo a chapterperuacbs@gmail.com
• Asunto: GRUPO PORTLAND
• Nombre como te registraste en la ACBS

- COMUNIDAD DE PRACTICANTES ACT (in Spanish)

• Description:Aquí nos centraremos en vivir los procesos ACT desde adentro, enfatizaremos en experimentar los procesos ACT en nosotrxs mismos "hacer lo que profesamos"
• Para inscribirte debes enviarnos un correo chapterperuacbs@gmail.com
• Asunto: PRACTICANTE ACT
• Nombre como te registraste en la ACBS

- GRUPO DE ESTUDIOS (in Spanish)

• Description:revisaremos libros relacionados con la teoría, filosofía e intervención ACT.
• Para inscribirte debes enviarnos un correo chapterperuacbs@gmail.com
• Asunto: ROOTS

Note: Meeting times and dates are coordinate directly with each group  

ACBS Peru: Peruvian Chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Affiliated 2016

Type of Chapter:
National

Mission/Objectives:

a) Serve as a scientific and professional reference group for Peruvians or those living in Peru who identify themselves as scientists, students, or practitioners in disciplines which embrace the principles and practices of contextual behavioral science, or for the interested public.
b) Promote research and scholarship in Peru focused on the development of a coherent and progressive science of human action that is more adequate to the challenges of the human condition.
c) Identify and promote the development of useful basic principles, workable applied theories linked to these principles, effective applied technologies based on these theories, and successful means of training and disseminating these developments, guided by the best available scientific evidence of effective prevention and intervention strategies.
d) Promote the development of a view of science that values a dynamic, ongoing interaction between its basic and applied elements, and between practical application and empirical knowledge;
e) Promote the development in Peru of a community of scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners who will work in a collegial, open, self-critical, non-discriminatory, and mutually supportive way that is effective in producing valued outcomes and in exploring the additional implications of this work, and that emphasizes open and low cost methods of connecting with this work so as to keep the focus on benefit to others;
f) Advise political, legislative, and policy-making bodies with respect to matters pertaining to contextual behavioral science in Peru.
g) Organize and sponsor forums, conferences, newsletters, journals, websites, list serves and other such activities for the accomplishment of the purposes of the organization.

Description of Membership:
Peruvians or those living in Peru who identify themselves as scientists, students, or practitioners in disciplines which embrace the principles and practices of contextual behavioral science, or for the interested public.

ALL APPETITIVE ALL THE TIME - Grounding Psychological Interventions in Appetitive Contingencies /Fundamentación de la Intervención Psicológica en las Contingencias Apetitivas/Fundamentos da Intervenção Psicológica em Contingências Apetitivas - Presented by Emily Sandoz PhD., 23 de Abril (Available in:  English/Español/Português)

Los primeros pasos como terapeuta ACT en el abordaje de la sexualidad - presented by Lic. Vicky Avila Pava on the 15th of March.  Zoom info - https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/JRKlmqI91ckkzCnXGl62lXIDHJDT-TU4oUavBSklcHxnYIxRTFKfvNaEXeYRr7xY.KgA7sj1Op9zbU7Ri
Passcode:Xz5*K1yK

 "La violencia Doméstica desde la Ciencia Conductual Contextual: Nuevas Formas de Prevenir y Tratar la Violencia Doméstica en las Comunidades, Familias e Individuos". Presented by Amie Zarling,Ph.D on 9 January, 2024 

Helping beyond frontiers/Ayudando mas alla de las fronteras – presented by Dr. Ross White and Lic. José Villanueva on the 9^th of August 2023.  Zoom information - https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/OVHv6_gqVdFu-Vsys2YWzg5-u3q7ErJ2oiVq96zpAK3u8y-_4sGDF-9ksWeHhdnN.ZZjQqrikj2xm-5jY
Passcode:?7n2.R^N

José Villanueva - "You will know the approach from FACT in the refugee population, having the contextual and cultural view in the face of mass migrations. In addition, you will know the vision from Latin America and the United Kingdom, having as an axis the humanitarian treatment and the access of mental health services to that kind of population.

Dr Ross White - Dr White has researched mental health across the globe, including questions of culture and language and inequality and inequity regarding service provision. This work has led to collaborations with the World Health Organisation and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Here is the link of the Perú Chapter YouTube channel - https://youtu.be/yQwSLUDQNks?si=7amiqUyZ7ZhqFRUF

• We have uploaded the videos of the presentations authorized by the Presenters of the Creating Compassionate Communities event.