ACBS Newsletter

October 2018

ACT exceeds 250 RCTs!

The 250 Randomized Controlled Trial milestone represents the culmination of more than 30 years of ACT research from this community. The ACBS Communication Committee maintains the list of RCTs on the ACT Randomized Controlled Trials page. It is a great resource with information about each study's trial area, trial conditions, sample size, and link to the full text of the study.

Featured Video: Carmen Luciano's Plenary Address from ACBS World Conference 15

The ACBS video collection has grown to 100 titles! We recommend you view the video of Carmen Luciano's plenary address presented at the ACBS World Conference 15 in Seville, Spain: The Self and Responding to the one's own Behavior: Implications of Coherence and Hierarchical Framing. (You need to login to your ACBS account to view the full collection of videos).

New ACT for Military Personnel Special Interest Group

We are excited to announce the newest ACBS Special Interest Group (SIG), the ACT for Military Personnel SIG! The new SIG’s mission is to promote clinical practice, clinical training, and research of ACT and other CBS consistent therapies for active duty military members and their families. You can join the SIG listserv and learn more about the ACT for Military Personnel SIG here.

Student Spotlight Award: Application Deadline November 23, 2018

The ACBS Student Spotlight Program highlights students who are doing important work in the CBS community, whether for research, clinical, and/or volunteer-humanitarian efforts. This program is a great way to highlight their achievements and let the ACBS community know about important work students are doing. The application deadline is November 23, 2018.

World Conference 17: Dublin, Ireland

June 25 - 30, 2019
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News from the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science

JCBS VOLUME 8 AND 9: JCBS Volume 8 and 9 are now available on the ACBS website. ACBS members can access the full text version of every article from all nine volumes of the journal.

JCBS STUDENT EDITORIAL BOARD: JCBS plans to seat a student editorial board (SEB), comprised of graduate students interested in CBS. Once appointed, SEB members will review JCBS articles, gaining invaluable experience in the peer-review process and helping to steer the content of JCBS.

NEW JCBS ZOTERO GROUP: Are you a Zotero user who loves JCBS? Now you can access a public Zotero group with complete abstract and citation information for every article ever published in JCBS (current through volume 9.) Search easily through the publications by author, keyword, tag, and more. Happy researching!

NEW CASE STUDY: According to PlumX Metrics, Juan M. Flujas-Contreras and Inmaculada Gómez's article in JCBS Volume 8 has been shared and liked 128 times on social media! This paper describes a case study of ACT applied to the problems in a mother's interaction with her family. The effects of her treatment are reflected in her son, suggesting two-way psychological flexibility between mother and son.