The Malaysia Chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science (“ACBS MYS”) is formed with the vision to foster the development of functional contextual cognitive and behavioural science and practice within Malaysia so as to alleviate human suffering and advance human wellbeing.

ACBS MYS aims to carry out their vision by achieving the following missions:

1. Serve as a scientific and professional reference group for those in Malaysia who identify themselves as scientists, students, or practitioners in disciplines that embrace the principles and practices of contextual behavioural science, or for the interested public;
2. Promote research and scholarship in Malaysia that focused on the development of a coherent and progressive science of human action that is more adequate to the challenges of the human condition;
3. Identify and promote the development of useful basic principles, workable applied theories linked to these principles, effective applied technologies based on these theories, and successful means of training and disseminating these developments, guided by the best available scientific evidence of effective prevention and intervention strategies;
4. Promote the development of a view of science that values a dynamic, ongoing interaction between its basic and applied elements, and between practical application and empirical knowledge;
5. Promote the development in Malaysia of a community of scholars, researchers, educators, and practitioners who will work in a collegial, open, self-critical, non-discriminatory, and mutually supportive way that is effective in producing valued outcomes and in exploring the additional implications of this work, and that emphasizes open and low-cost methods of connecting with this work so as to keep the focus on the benefit to others;
6. Advise political, legislative, and policy-making bodies with respect to matters pertaining to contextual behavioural science in Malaysia;
7. Organise and sponsor forums, conferences, newsletters, journals, websites, list serves and other such activities for the accomplishment of the purposes of the organisation.