USA - Chicago, IL
USA - Chicago, IL
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Chapter Contact Information
Pam Katz, MSW, LCSW. - Chapter President
acbschicago@gmail.com
Board of Directors
Pam Katz President 9/2022-8/2025
Jamie Cooper Secretary 9/2021-8/2024
Ginny Nikiforos Member at Large 9/2022-8/2025
Tim Lo Treasurer 9/2022-8/2025
Deanna Tuttle 11/2023-8/2025
Abby Hurley Past President
2012 Chapter Conference Documents
2012 Chapter Conference DocumentsChicago Chapter of ACBS
ACBS Chicago First Conference (2012) pdfs are available for download... please login to see attachments below.
2014 Chapter Conference Info and Documents
2014 Chapter Conference Info and DocumentsProgram Presentations Included:
Turner, N. & Welches, P. - Mindfulness Based Sobriety: A clinician’s guide for integrating ACT, Motivational Interviewing, and Relapse Prevention Therapy in addiction and mental health recovery
Georgescu, S. & Hurley, A. - ACT, Diversity & Stigma
Brock, M. - Acting with Compassion (Part I) Participants will learn to: 1. Help clients better regulate and tolerate anxiety through the activation of their evolved capacity for mindful compassion
Salstrom, S., Holly, A., & Gartner, R. ACT with Children and Adolescents
Thomson, R. - Mindfulness for Therapists: Establishing and deepening your practice
Brock, M. - Acting with Compassion (Part II) See above
Millner, S. & Meyer, B. - Understanding and Working with Grief from an ACT Perspective
Niolon, R. & Georgescu, S. - Informed Consent in Modern Contextual CBTs (3 hrs)
Walser, R. - ACT and the Therapeutic Relationship: Bringing compassion, love, and fun into the therapy session
Sherrill, A., Holmberg, N., Orbon, S., Miron, L., & Knoll, R. - The Willingness Model of Group Experiential Learning: How to develop an effective peer learning group Ballroom A
Brock, M. - The 9 Mistakes New ACT Therapists Make (and How to Avoid Them)
Walser, R. - Living in a Disorderly World: Acceptance and compassion in the treatment of trauma Participants will be able to: 1. Describe the psychopathological impact of experiential avoidance and its relationship to trauma - Ballroom
2017 Conference Information
2017 Conference InformationACBS Chicago Spring Conference - April 29,2017
Location: 525 S. State St, Chicago, IL
Full details available at http://www.acbschicago.org/events.html
ACBS CHICAGO CHAPTER VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - APRIL 29, 2022
ACBS CHICAGO CHAPTER VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - APRIL 29, 2022The ACBS Chicago Chapter Board presented a virtual conference on Friday, April 29. This virtual conference offered trainings on psychological trauma in healthcare providers, Emotion Efficacy Therapy, and Relational Frame Theory. Links to the recording of sessions are included below:
Psychological Trauma in Healthcare Providers - Presented by Lindsey Harrington, PsyD
Emotion Efficacy Therapy - Presented by Abby Hurley, PsyD
Relational Frame Theory - Presented by Steven Topper, LCPC
Chicago Chapter Bylaws
Chicago Chapter BylawsChicago, IL, USA Chapter Information
Chicago, IL, USA Chapter InformationACBS Chicago
Affiliated 2010
Type of Chapter:
Local
Describe the geographic (or language) boundaries of the Chapter:
Chicago-land area (includes suburbs of Chicago)
Mission/Objectives:
- Serve as a scientific and professional reference group
- Promote research and scholarship
- Identify and promote the development and dissemination of principle based interventions that are firmly rooted in functional contextual science
- Advise interested bodies of the work that we do
- Support our members in their efforts to gain ongoing training and further develop their competencies
- 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 committed to advance the mission of ACBS Chicago chapter, which serves the Chicago-land area (includes suburbs of Chicago).
- The types of membership shall be Professional and Student.
- The minimum standard for election to professional membership shall be completion of a terminal degree (Masters and/or Doctoral level) relevant to the purposes of the Association.
- Student members shall be currently enrolled at the undergraduate or graduate level in an region of relevance to the purposes of the Association.
- All members of the ACBS Chicago chapter must be members in good standing of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
- Members shall be regarded without discrimination on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, political affiliation, or mental or physical disability.
News
NewsThis section contains news and updates from the ACBS Chicago Chapter. To view a news item, click on the links listed below.
Looking back on a successful first three years
Looking back on a successful first three yearsLooking back on a successful first three years
by Sandra Georgescu
And the Chicago Chapter was born…..
It is common clinical practice that the presence of 2 people (clients) makes for a “group” …. In our case, it seemed that 3 people made for a consultation group whereas 5 people made for a whole chapter board. And so, it formally began in early 2010.
From its inception, our Chapter’s mission has been to establish a place where ACT/ACBSers can come together locally to socialize, network, develop intellectually and support students from Chicago’s many graduate programs. In essence, we wanted to scale the spirit of the national organization to local dimensions. We therefore created a community that is inclusive, supportive, connected and that can provide some of the advantages of ACBS (fondly referred to as “the mothership”) at a local level. Rather than trying to create an organization with its own identity, we conceptualized and organized our Chapter to be an extension of ACBS, its mission and values.
With this clear path ahead of us, the members of the Chicago Chapter have somehow been either involved or directly responsible for thelocal professional consultation group, local trainings, seasonal dinners, social, and networking meetings (this fall with Steve & almost Kelly!) and more recently the development of an informal student led consultation group. In addition, our First Annual Conference was held March 30-31st 2012 with approximately 100 individuals in attendance. In typical ACBS tradition, the program included a 1 day pre-conference experiential workshop led by Patty Bach Ph.D. On the second day, three tracks featured a wide variety of presentations mostly led by local talent and one international speaker. Jonathan Kanter Ph.D. visited us from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and closed the conference with a spectacular keynote address on depression.
Behind the scenes, we have maintained a (simple yet useful) website, incorporated a non-for-profit organization and worked through numerous organizational kinks and hurdles. We have repeatedly been reunited and realigned by our mission and our service to our over 150 subscribers of which approximately half are dues paying members. The Chapter’s goal is to expand the social, educational and professional growth opportunities for Chicago and the surrounding areas. Like proud parents, we are excited to watch the chapter mature (though we are dreading it’s teenage years).
Visit us at http://contextualscience.org/chicago_chapter
and if you’re in the area, please join us!