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Thursday, August 25, 2011
living up to the slogan: the maturing vision of acbs

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The ninth Association for Contextual Behavioral Science World Conference (WC IX) was held in Parma, Italy, July 11 through 15. Organized by ACT-Italia, the Italian chapter of ACBS, it was the largest (596 registrants) and most diverse world conference ever—22 countries had nine or more registrants.


For those who attended, this conference had a tangible sense of a more matured and developed community—intellectually, socially, and practically. Many new datasets were shared, but there was a shift away from anxious questions such as, "Is ACT / RFT empirically supported?" toward more self-confident ones such as, "How can we advance this work?" or, "What are we missing?"


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by Steven C. Hayes, PhD is the author of Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Posted By adia / 12:13 PM / Thursday, August 25, 2011
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