E-Mailing Lists

Several ACT and RFT electronic mailings lists (often called "listservs") have been established to serve as communication forums for interested parties. Click on a link or button below to learn more about joining a particular list.

ACT for the Public Mailing List
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.

 
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.

 
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 Mailing List
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.

 
Kid ACT Mailing List
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.


 
ACBS Student SIG Mailing List
This is the mailing list for the student member Special Interest Group of ACBS.


 
Eating Concerns and Contextual Psychology Mailing List
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.

 
Brazil (Portuguese) ACT Mailing List
Isto é uma lista de endereços de português, particularmente para esses em Brasil.

 
French ACT Mailing List
Toute personne intéressée à échanger et approfondir 'Acceptance and Commitment Therapy"

 
Spanish ACT/RFT Mailing List
This is a Spanish language ACT/RFT list.

 
United Kingdom ACT Mailing List
This is an ACT mailing list for professionals in the United Kingdom.

 
Australia/New Zealand ACT Mailing List
This is an ACT mailing list for professionals down under.

 
Dutch Language ACT Mailing List/ Nederlandstalige ACT Intervisiegroep
This is a Dutch language ACT forum. Contact Francis De Groot to join this list.
 
German Language ACT Mailing List
This is a German language ACT mailing list. Email act-de@yahoogroups.de to join this list.
 
Swedish Language ACT Forum
This is a Swedish language ACT forum. Visit www.act-forum.se/ to learn more.
 
Psychiatrists in ACT
This is a list serve for psychiatrists world wide interested in ACT. Email Cynthia Cushman to learn more and to request membership.