Praxis Continuing Education & Training Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) Basics
Praxis Continuing Education & Training Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) Basics is organized by Praxis Continuing Education and Training (CET), Inc..
Release Date: 12/01/2021
Expiration Date: 12/31/2024
Description:
Inside the course, Matt will guide you through the fundamental aspects of ACT with easy-to-understand instruction, so you can start applying them right away in your practice. To make the learning process effective and engaging, you’ll first develop a personal understanding of each new concept through an experiential exercise. Then, you’ll explore its theoretical underpinnings. You will also benefit from Matt’s approach to the six core psychological flexibility processes, including ready-to-use interventions that can help you target these processes with clients.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe the limits of control and assess how ineffective control strategies contribute to psychopathology and general human suffering.
• Describe the psychological flexibility model that informs acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
• Describe how to enlist acceptance and mindfulness processes to help clients let go of struggling and be more willing with painful private events (i.e., thoughts and feelings).
• Distinguish between interventions designed to directly control thoughts and feelings and those targeted at becoming more mindful with thoughts and feelings.
• Identify how defusion and values processes help clients undermine the power of language to influence behavior and move in the direction of personally chosen values.
• Identify how to help clients contact the “observing self” and let go of limiting self-stories.
• Assess psychological inflexibility across six domains: experiential avoidance, fusion, inflexible attention, attachment to the conceptualized self, disconnection from values, and unworkable action.
• Discuss how to intervene using experiential methods to mobilize the six processes of psychological flexibility (acceptance, defusion, present moment awareness, self-as-context, values, and committed action) in their interactions with clients.
• Discuss how to adapt ACT to the client’s unique context.
