E-Mailing Lists
Several ACT and RFT electronic mailings lists (often called "listservs") have been established to serve as communication forums for interested parties. Not sure what a listserv is or how to join? See our helpful pointers on using the lists through yahoo groups.
Click on a link below to learn more about joining a particular mailing list:
Language/Region Specific
- Brazil (Portuguese) ACT
- French ACT
- Norwegian ACT
- Spanish ACT/RFT
- United Kingdom ACT
- Australia/New Zealand ACT
- Dutch Language ACT/Nederlandstalige ACT
- German Language ACT
- Swedish Language ACT
- Nepali ACT
- Serbo-Croatian language / Western Balkans ACT
- Polish language ACT
- Persian / Farsi ACT
ACT for the Public
This mailing list serves as a forum for non-professionals to discuss ACT. It is not meant to deal with requests for specific professional advice, but it will deal broadly with common personal problems. There are no requirements to join other than interest in the subject.
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ACT for Professionals
ACT for Professionals Mailing List This is the primary ACT mailing list, serving as a forum for clinicians and scientists to discuss current conceptual, scientific, and practice developments in ACT and RFT. It is restricted to professionals or graduate students in relevant fields. It is not meant to deal with requests for advice about personal problems. Paid ACBS membership (at any level) is now required to join the ACT Listserv for professionals. Your membership will be verified when you apply to the listserv. Non-professionals are invited to join the "ACT for the Public" mailing list below.
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RFT
RFT Mailing List This is the primary RFT mailing list, serving as a forum for scientists and practitioners to discuss current conceptual, scientific, and practice developments in RFT and ACT. It is restricted to professionals or graduate students in relevant fields. Paid ACBS membership (at any level) is now required to join the RFT Listserv. Your membership will be verified when you apply to the listserv.
ABA Clinical SIG
The ABA Clinical Special Interest Group is composed of those members of the Association for Behavior Analysis working in the application of behavior analysis in clinical domains. This list serves as a forum for members of the ABA Clinical SIG to discuss relevant conceptual, scientific, and practical issues.
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Kid ACT
This list serves as a forum for scientists, scholars, practitioners, and students to discuss Acceptance and Commitment Theory (ACT) with therapist, practitioners, and consultants who work with kids, parents, families, and teachers. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behavior change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility means contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being, and based on what the situation affords, changing or persisting in behavior in the service of chosen values.
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ACBS Student SIG
This is the mailing list for the student member Special Interest Group of ACBS.
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Eating Concerns and Contextual Psychology
The purpose of this listserv is to facilitate discussion of the application of ACT, RFT, or related sensibilities to the research, prevention, or treatment of eating difficulties.
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ACBS in Education
The purpose of this listserv is to facilitate discussion of the implication of contextual behavioral science, RFT, and ACT for education.
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ACT & Christians
Christian clients have a specific worldview which presents individual opportunities and challenges within the psychotherapy process. This group investigates these, specifically with reference to behaviour analysis. The target audience are psychotherapists although all those interested are welcome. There is no restriction regarding the beliefs of the participants. However, this is not a forum for discussions about the veracity of Christian beliefs or a comparison with any other beliefs, unless such a reference is very relevant to the discussion.
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Contextual Medicine
This is a list serve for psychiatrists, physicians, behavioral health providers from other fields, and others (researchers, students, educators) who are interested in the relation of medical practice and biological research to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and other aspects of contextual behavioral science. Email Ellen Lewis to learn more and to request membership.
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Brazil (Portuguese) ACT
Isto é uma lista de endereços de português, particularmente para esses em Brasil.
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French ACT
Toute personne intéressée à échanger et approfondir 'Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.'
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Norwegian ACT
Diskusjonsgruppe for fagpersoner interessert i Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Registrering er påkrevd. Som registrert kan du velge å motta og/eller sende nye meldinger pr. epost (vanligst) eller ved å klikke deg inn på gruppens sider på Yahoo-groups. Du må opprette en yahoo-profil (om du ikke har en) for å registrere deg. Gruppen er ment som et forum for terapeuter, studenter og forskere for å diskutere teoretiske, kliniske og forskningsmessige sider ved Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Denne gruppen er ikke ment for å ta seg av spørsmål om råd for personlige problemer. Det er fritt fram å melde seg inn og følge diskusjoner 'passivt', og samtidig oppfordres det til å bidra med spørsmål og meninger for å holde liv i gruppen. Velkommen!
Click to join the Norwegian ACT list
Spanish ACT/RFT
This is a Spanish language ACT/RFT list.
Click to join the Spanish ACT/RFT list
United Kingdom ACT
This is an ACT mailing list for professionals in the United Kingdom.
Australia/New Zealand ACT
This is an ACT mailing list for professionals down under.
Click to join the ACT-AustNZ list
Dutch Language ACT/Nederlandstalige ACT
This is a Dutch language ACT forum. Contact Francis De Groot to join this list.
German Language ACT
This is a German language ACT mailing list. Email act-de@yahoogroups.de to join this list.
Click to join the German ACT list
Swedish Language ACT
This is a Swedish language ACT website: http://www.svenskapsykologiinstitutet.se/terapeuter/
Also, here is a Swedish ACT facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/176780272348759/
Nepali ACT
This group is for all Nepali health professionals (and students) who have an interest in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. It serves as a forum for professional living and working in Nepal to collaborate with other professionals in the ACBS community. It is a forum for case consultation, peer supervision, discussing ACT and RFT concepts, exchanging information and ideas, advertising ACT-related events etc.
Click to join the Nepali ACT list
Serbo-Croatian language / Western Balkans ACT
This is the primary ACT mailing list, serving as a forum for clinicians and scientists from Western Balkans region (who speak Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin language) to discuss current conceptual, scientific, and practice developments in ACT and RFT. It is restricted to professionals or graduate students in relevant fields. It is not meant to deal with requests for advice about personal problems. Your membership will be verified when you apply to the listserv.
Click to join the Serbo-Croatian language / Western Balkans ACT list
Social Work ACT Special Interest Group
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is especially well-suited to the practice of social work. Both share a focus on context, strengths, and understanding human suffering in ways that avoid pathologizing individuals and communities. This listserv is the virtual meeting site of the Social Work ACT Special Interest Group of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), the primary ACT professional organization.
Click to join the Social Work ACT SIG list
Polish Language ACT
See below for a Polish language ACT mailing list. There is also a Polish ACT facebook group here. And, there is a Polish ACT website here.
Click to join the Polish ACT list
Persian / Farsi ACT
Here is a listserv for discussions of ACT in Farsi: http://groups.google.com/group/actinfarsi?hl=en
Leadership, Organizations, and Public Policy SIG
Here is a listserv for the Leadership, Organizations, and Public Policy Special Interest Group:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LOPP-SIG
Click to join the LOPP SIG list
ACT-Based Coaching
The ACT-Based Coaching group will provide opportunities for coaches to access relevant resources and materials and to network within the ACBS community in all areas, including research, education, job opportunities, consultation, program development, and supervision. In this SIG, coaches who have integrated ACT principles and practices into their work or are interested in learning how to do so can come together to share information, ask questions, receive support, and strengthen their practice.