This event has passed.  Please consider joining us for the ACBS Virtual World Conference 24-27 June which includes 50+ workshops, panels, research symposia, and recorded viewing for 2 months!

ACBS VIRTUAL WC2021 Pre-Conference Workshops

12 & 13 June MORNING workshops:

• Therapy in the Symbolic Context: The Role of Culture, Story and Symbols

Darin Cairns, M.A.
(Clinical; Intermediate, Advanced)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Introduction & Skills Building - CLOSED

David Gillanders, DClinPsy, Sonja V. Batten, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate)

• Mindfulness and Compassion Focused Therapy for Everyone

Dennis Tirch, Ph.D., Laura Silberstein-Tirch, Psy.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• Life from the Feet Up: Supporting Client Change through ACT Process and Therapeutic Relationship

Robyn Walser, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Intermediate, Advanced)

12 & 13 June AFTERNOON workshops:

• ACT for Life: Experiential training on a Contextual Behavioral Approach to Suicidal Ideation and Behavior

Sean M. Barnes, Ph.D., Lauren M. Borges, Ph.D., Geoffrey Smith, Psy.D., Debbie Sorensen, Ph.D., Nazanin H. Bahraini, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• Viviendo en contacto con el corazón: El análisis clínico de la conducta y los principios basados en contingencias y conducta relacional (“Living with heart”: Clinical behavior analysis and the principles based on contingencies and relational responding)

Carmen Luciano, Ph.D.
(Clínico, Investigación; Nivel intermedio, Nivel avanzado)
(Clinical, Research; Intermediate, Advanced)
*Simultaneous English translation available*

• Here, Now, and Between Us: Functional Analytic Psychotherapy and the power of the therapeutic relationship

Mary P. Loudon, Ph.D., Sarah Sullivan-Singh, Ph.D., Mavis Tsai, Ph.D., Robert J. Kohlenberg, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• Empowering psychological interventions by incorporating cutting-edge RFT research

Francisco J. Ruiz, Ph.D., Louise McHugh, Ph.D., Bárbara Gil-Luciano, Ph.D.
(Clinical, Research; Beginner, Intermediate)

• Nurturing Roots to Reach New Heights: Revisiting Foundations of ACT as Clinical Behavior Analysis for Mastering Flexible, Process-Based Implementation

Emily K. Sandoz, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Intermediate, Advanced)

• Be A Brief and Powerful Clinician: Use Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) to Help Many

Kirk Strosahl, Ph.D., Patricia Robinson, Ph.D.
(Clinical; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Obsessive Compulsive and Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Michael P. Twohig, Ph.D., Patricia Zurita Ona, Psy.D.
(Clinical, Research; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)