The Working group for the Competency and Dissemination Strategic PIllar has been actively working to achieve the strategic goals established by the ACBS Board. This website is an ongoing effort to organize information relevant to issues of competency and dissemination of practices that fall under the umbrella of Contextual Behavioral Science.
These include contributing to the creating of the International Standards of Training and Supervision.
Competency measures for specific CBS-informed approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP)
Internet-based interventions
Mindfulness-based approaches
Process-Based Therapy (PBT)
Supervision
What has the working group been doing?
Guided by this aim from the ACBS Board's call to action: “We envision a scientific community in which members of ACBS could find evidence informed guidelines on how to learn, how to apply, and how to measure their skill development over time,” the working group has
● Held bi-weekly and/or monthly meetings to determine the process and content of the information needed to create a thorough report for the ACBS Board.
● Reviewed definitions of competency and explored how to write about competency in ways that are consistent with the principles of CBS.
● Conducted an extensive literature review to assess the current published status of competency training in CBS approaches.
● Hosted two panels at the ACBS World Conference in 2022. One panel shared the results of the competency literature review. The other panel explored international issues in competency and dissemination.
● Hosted a panel at the ACBS World Conference in 2023 discussing the strengths, challenges, and future directions of competency assessment in contextual behavioral science approaches.
Competency and Dissemination panels from the World Conference
- International Perspectives on CBS Competency and Dissemination - Panel presented by Sean Wright, Carmen Luciano, Zhuohong Zhu, Amanda Muñoz-Martinez, Steven Hayes, Hannah Bockarie (June 2022)
- Putting the task force report into action - Panel presented by Maria Karekla, Rhonda Merwin, Steven Hayes, Louise McHugh, Kenneth Fung (June 2022)
- Report from the ACBS Strategic Pillar for Competency and Dissemination - Panel presented by Raul Manzione, Alycia Zink, Sean Wright, Giovambattista Presti, Robyn Walser (June 2022)
- CBS Competencies: The good, the bad, and the need - Panel presented by Steve Hayes, Russell Kolts, Raul Manzione, Robyn Walser, and Sean Wright (July 2023)
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