The ACBS Japan Chapter website has accessment tools.

https://www.act-japan-acbs.jp/tool.html

• Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II
• Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (7 項目版)
• Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth
• Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire
• Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire
• Personal Values Questionnaire II
• TSSQ
• Values of Younger Ages scale（VOYAGE）
• Values Clarification Questionnaire
• Valuing Questionnaire

ACT Japan (The Japanese Association for Contextual Behavioral Science) will hold the International RFT Meeting as its first Annual Meeting.

General Conference Schedule
March 12th 2012 RFT/IRAP Meeting (9:00am-17:30pm)
March 13th 2012 RFT/IRAP Meeting (9:00am-17:30pm)
March 14th 2012 RFT/IRAP Meeting (9:00am-14:00pm)
* A dinner is planned for 7.30pm Tuesday 13th to give researchers the opportunity for informal discussion and exchange of ideas.

Conference Venue
Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan

The conference will provide a forum for leading RFT researchers (Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes, Ian Stewart, and many others) to discuss recent findings and applications of RFT in differing research and applied domains, as well as their work with other active RFT researchers.

The aim of the meeting is to stimulate continued refinement and development of RFT research.

ADDITIONAL EVENTS: An Introduction to RFT: A One-Day Workshop with Dermot Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne Barnes-Holmes and Ian Stewart. (each date is the same lecture; please register for only one)

• March 11th 2012 (9:30am-16:30pm) at Doshisha University in Kyoto
• March 17th 2012 (9:30am-16:30pm) at Tokyo office of Doshisha University in Tokyo

 CALL FOR PAPERS (for the main event, March 12-14):

Submissions must be received by January 31, 2012.

To submit a paper for consideration, please fill out the application form and send the following information: 

A) Title of Presentation

B) Name and Affiliation of principle author

C) Name and Affiliation of co-authors

D) 200 Word Summary including objective, design, method, results, and conclusion.

 

REGISTRATION:

Individuals interested in attending but not presenting at the meeting are encouraged to attend! 

Anyone can participate in the event free of charge. Those attending the meeting, however, must arrange their own travel, accommodation, and meals.

 

TRAVEL, LODGING AND DIRECTIONS:

ACBS Members: Download the full-length interactive brochure (attached in a compressed zip folder, containing a pdf file). 

ACT Japan: The Japanese Association for Contextual Behavioral Science

Affiliated 2010

Type of Chapter:
National

Describe the geographic boundaries of the Chapter:
The activities of the Chapter is limited to Japan.

Mission/Objectives

The purpose of the organization shall be to foster the development of functional contextual cognitive and behavioral science and practice within Japan so as to alleviate human suffering and advance human well being.

Specifically, the organization shall:

1. Serve as a scientific and professional reference group for those in Japan 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.
2. Promote research and scholarship in Japan focused on the development of a coherent and progressive science of human action that is more adequate to the challenges of the human condition that will.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Promote the development in Japan 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.
6. Advise political, legislative, and policy-making bodies with respect to matters pertaining to contextual behavioral science in Japan.
7. 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

Members of the Association shall be persons who are interested in the advancement of functional contextual science and practice in Japan.