Colorado, USA

Colorado Association of Contextual Behavioral Science 

Affiliated 2010

Contact Information

Joanne Steinwachs
Private Practice
Denver, CO

http://www.acbscolorado.org

2010-2011 Board of Directors

Joanne Steinwachs, President

Matt Heermann, Vice-President 1

Brandon Ward, Vice-President 2

Arnica Buckner, Secretary-Treasurer

Ron Biela, Member at Large

Caroline Dohm, Member at Large

Dave Yood, Student Representative

Mission/Objectives

To foster the development of functional contextual behavioral practice, science, and community service within the state of Colorado.

• Serve as a scientific and professional reference group for those in Colorado who identify themselves as scientists, students, or practitioners in disciplines which embrace the principles and practices of contextual behavioral science, or for the interested public.

• Promote research and scholarship in Colorado focused on the development of a coherent and progressive science of human action that is more adequate to the challenges of the human condition.

• Identify and promote the development of useful basic principles, workable applied theories linked to these principles, effective applied technologies based on these theories, and successful means of training and disseminating these developments, guided by the best available scientific evidence.

• Promote the development of a view of science that values a dynamic, ongoing interaction between its basic and applied elements, and between practical application and empirical knowledge.

• Promote the development in Colorado of a community of scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners who will work in a collegial, open, self-critical, non-discriminatory, and mutually supportive way that is effective in producing valued outcomes and in exploring the additional implications of this work, and that emphasizes open and low cost methods of connecting with this work so as to keep the focus on benefit to others

• Advise political, legislative, and policy-making bodies with respect to matters pertaining to contextual behavioral science in Colorado.

• Organize and sponsor forums, conferences, newsletters, journals, websites, list serves or other such activities for the accomplishment of the purposes of the organization.

Description of Membership

Colorado State practitioners and scientists committed to practice and research in Contextual Behavioral Science.