Praxis Continuing Education & Training Empowering Parents With Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Praxis Continuing Education & Training Empowering Parents With Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) is organized by Praxis Continuing Education and Training (CET), Inc..
Release Date: 12/02/2022
Expiration Date: 12/02/2025
Description:
Inside, you’ll learn how to incorporate broader parenting context into your functional analysis or case conceptualization and design interventions that support psychological flexibility in caregivers.
You’ll also learn how to meet parents where they are, create a compassionate and collaborative context, and teach ACT-based skills that support them to be more flexible, engaged, and persistent.
With these skills, caregivers will be better equipped to implement effective interventions, model flexibility, and support their child in reaching their greatest potential.
They’ll be prepared to face their next parenting challenge and effectively navigate the changing needs of their child over time.
The principles you’ll learn inside the course will help you:
• Support parents to stay present and engaged, while following through with effective interventions.
• Establish a strong working alliance with caregivers.
• Integrate ACT into other approaches you are currently using.
• Teach parents lifelong, flexible problem-solving skills.
• Offer better support to parents of children with a wide variety of needs, including anxiety, oppositionality, and autism.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Use a contextual behavioral perspective to conceptualize parenting issues.
• Describe how psychological flexibility contributes to contextually sensitive parenting practices and increased parent treatment engagement.
• Identify ways to develop an effective working alliance with caregivers.
• Describe how to establish ACT-consistent task agreement and treatment goals that support caregivers’ success.
• Discuss how to help caregivers track the workability of their parenting practices and evaluate their outcomes in context.
• Implement strategies for shaping caregivers’ psychological flexibility including present-moment awareness, defusion, and acceptance-based interventions.
• Use strategies for building caregivers’ psychological flexibility including valuing and committed action interventions.
• Implement strategies for supporting perspective-taking skills in caregivers.
• Identify common issues when implementing ACT strategies with caregivers and provide solutions.
• Integrate ACT with other evidence-based behavioral parent interventions.
• Identify coercive family cycles and establish more positive parent-child interactions from an ACT perspective.
• Use the ACT perspective and strategies to support parents of autistic children.
• Describe ways to help caregivers practice self-compassion to support persistence and resilience.
• Implement strategies to strengthen the psychological flexibility of the clinician in order to more effectively model and shape flexibility in caregivers.
