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World Congresses of Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Therapy: HistoryThe need to establish a decision body for deciding about future World Congresses (WC) in Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Therapy has been discussed for many years. Representatives for the world community of Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Therapy have worked together to establish the World Congree Committee (WCC).A series of World Congresses (WC) in Behaviour and Cognitive Therapy have already been held. The two first WCs were organized by the Behaviour Therapy community. Next came the first WC for Cognitive Therapy, and then every other WC was for either BT or CT, until 1995, which was the first combined BT and CT Congress. Hopefully, a long series of combined Congresses will follow. So far, these congresses have not been real “world congresses,” at least not the Behaviour Therapy WC, in the sense that they have not been arranged by the world community in behaviour therapy, but by subgroups of that community. Specifically, the first two WCs in BT were organized by EABCT and ABCT (formerly AABT), respectively, which called their EABCT- and AABT-congresses “World Congresses.” The following two were decided by the AGM (Annual General Meeting) of the EABCT and representatives at the International Associates meeting of the AABT. However, these two meetings cannot be said to be representative of 81 associations worldwide, even if all are invited to the International Associates Meeting at the AABT Congress. The World Congresses in CT, on the other hand, represented the world community of CT, as the International Association of Cognitive Psychotherapies is an international organization. The 1995 Copenhagen congress is more inclusive then the earlier congresses, as it included both the World organization on CT (IACP) and most of the world community in FIT from the early planning stage. Still, it was not totally representative worldwide. The list of WCs so far (as of 2004), including the Copenhagen WC in 1995, thus could be listed as follows:
Since BT and CT are growing around the world, the necessity of creating a democratic “decision-making” body concerning the venues of future world congresses is clear. In the absence of a World Federation or some other form of a world organization for BT, a continental organization seems natural. Including the CT organization, we could thus think of seven umbrella organizations that should be represented in deciding future World Congress venues. These are: 1. ABCT (formerly AABT) North America 2. ABMA Australia 3. ALAMOC South America 4. EABCT Europe 5. Asia (coordinated by JABT) 6. Africa (coordinated by SAABT) 7. IACP (International) WCBCT 2004 - Kobe, Japan As you can see in the list above, the 2004 Worls Congress hosted in Kobe, Japan was the most recent Worls Congress event. WCBCT Kobe was a great success, enjoyed and valued by all delegates. A few photos from Kobe are shown below...
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