Newsletter
Volume 29 | 2006 | Number 2
ABA of Brazil
By Dr. Martha Hübner
The Brazilian Association of Psychotherapy and Behavioral Medicine (ABPMC) was founded on November, 4th, 1991. Its objective is to congregate psychologists, researchers, professors, and students that are interested in the scientific and technological development in Behavior Analysis.
ABPMC, the Brazilian ABA chapter, currently has 4,000 names registered in its mailing list. Each year for the past five years, 1,600 people have attended its convention, which typically occurs in the month of September. In 2004, ABPMC had the honor to organize the second international meeting of ABA, which 2,420 people attended. Today, ABPMC has 1,450 members that have paid for 2006 membership.
The ABPMC´s members come from all over Brazil, from north to south of the country. Many regional meetings have been held over the past six years, with around 400 people attending each one. We have the Center-West Region meeting and meetings in the State of São Paulo (city of Campinas and São Carlos), São Luis State, Goiania, Bauru, Rio Verde, Vitoria, and Salvador, among others.
For the next two years (2006-2007), the ABPMC central office will be located in BrasÃlia, the capital of the country. According to its bylaws, every two years the chapter’s directory board has to be changed. The ABPMC central office has already been located in the cities of Campinas (SP), Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Londrina.
Since its foundation, ABPMC has organized an annual meeting where members and interested people present papers and promote the most important advances in many areas of Behavior Analysis.
The most relevant works are published in a book series named Sobre Comportamento e Cognição (About Behavior and Cognition), which has already published 16 volumes.
Since 1999, ABPMC also publishes a regular journal called Revista Brasileira de Terapia Comportamental e Cognitiva (Brazilian Journal of Behavior and Cognitive Therapy), which is nationally recognized and very well received by the academic community.
This year, the XV annual meeting of ABPMC will be from September 14th to 17th. The president of the association is Wander C.M.P. Silva and the president of the annual meeting is Gilberto Hazaña de Godoy. To submit papers to the convention or to get more information about it, go to www.abpmc.org.br.
The Brazilian ABA chapter (ABPMC) will be very honored with your presence! John Austin, Charles Catania, William Dube, Dona Francis, Mark Galizio, Douglas Greer, Fred Keller, Maria Malott, Richard Malott, William McIlvane, Jack Michael, Jay Moore, Carol Pilgrim, Masaya Sato, Richard Serna, Murray Sidman, and Julie Vargas, among many others, have already visited us and, as far as we know, they just loved it. Come and join us at the XV ABPMC convention!