Panel at ACBS World Conference 2022, San Francisco

Attend my panel session “The Diffusion of Defusion: Disseminating and Promoting Contextual Behavioral Science through Popular Media”

From the most accessible self-help books to the most abstruse research articles, the CBS community is growing rapidly. In recent years, we’ve seen ACT and CBS-based books become bestsellers, podcasts become chart-toppers, and ACT concepts flourish in popular journalism and social media. With increasing ease of access and abundance of choice, creating meaningful, scientifically-informed and diverse content has never been more important. How can experts in the field more effectively reach the general public, so they can benefit from these concepts? This panel, consisting of content creators (podcasters, authors, and social media content creators) who are also researchers and/or therapists, will incorporate a broad range of experiences as they discuss the contextual behavioral underpinnings of dissemination — including the behavioral process involved in creating user-friendly content, content-consumption behavior, and the prosocial behavior of disseminating evidence-based work. Panelists will discuss the practical use of various dissemination tools for teaching, learning, and disseminating information about CBS, ACT, and related research and therapeutic approaches through accessible language and platforms.

Educational Objectives: 

1. Describe the role of podcasts and media in disseminating Contextual Behavioral Science through accessible platforms.
2. Explain the behavioral mechanisms involved in creating and consuming media.
3. Elucidate processes involved in disseminating equitable, diverse, and prosocial information to mass populations.