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CACBT-ACTCC members currently benefit from conference discounts as well as substantial discounts on a number of CBT journals. Student members presenting posters at CACBT-ACTCC conferences are eligible to win one of two awards:
The CACBT-ACTCC Clinical Poster Award, and The Jack Rachman Prize for the best CACBT-ACTCC research poster.
>> Read more about "The Jack Rachman Prize".
Stanley ‘Jack’ Rachman is one of Canada’s most eminent psychologists and is a founding member of CACBT-ACTCC. He is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the study and treatment of anxiety disorders; he developed many innovative treatment approaches that emerged directly from his highly novel and incisive experimental work in the laboratory. Professor Rachman completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry in England under the supervision of Hans Eysenck. His early work explored the mechanisms underlying the then relatively new approach of Behaviour Therapy. He contributed to major advances in our understanding of how exposure works, coining the term “emotional processing” in 1980, and exploring highly novel and clinically relevant aspects of anxious pathology (with a focus on OCD, panic disorder and other anxiety disorders) and its treatment through evidence-based approaches. Some of his most notable contributions include the idea that OCD can indeed be successfully treated with CBT; that virtually all of us experience occasional unwanted intrusive thoughts, images and impulses; and that anxiety spontaneously decays over time. His work has also included studies of the return of fear following exposure, formulations of the various pathways to the development of fear, and the generation and study of the thought-action fusion (TAF) construct. More recently, he has developed a number of cognitively-based formulations for a range of problems associated with OCD and other anxiety disorders, all of which have led to new ways of thinking about treatment. His work has highlighted the interplay between clinic and laboratory, and has been published in over 200 peer reviewed articles as well as an impressive number of books and chapters. For many years, Professor Rachman was the Editor-in-Chief of Behaviour Research & Therapy, one of the leading journals in the science and practice of CBT. Professor Rachman moved to Canada and the University of British Columbia in the early 1980’s, and has since played a key role in the training of an impressive number of Canadian CBT scientist-practitioners. He is known to be a warm, caring and effective therapist, and has maintained connections to clinical work throughout his distinguished career. He has received a number of national and international awards for his work, and is known for being both extremely clever and unusually silly.
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