Praxis Continuing Education & Training Exploring Values in Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Praxis Continuing Education & Training Exploring Values in Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) is organized by Praxis Continuing Education and Training (CET), Inc..
Release Date: 8/01/2021
Expiration Date: 8/31/2024
Description:
Inside the course, Dr. Wilson will guide you through an in-depth exploration of values from an evidence-based, ACT perspective and will unpack common roadblocks clinicians face. You’ll take part in experiential and written exercises to help you embody the work yourself and will see key principles demonstrated in teletherapy-style values conversations. You will also benefit from Dr. Wilson’s unique insight in detailed debriefs of these conversations.
After completing the material, you’ll have a deep understanding of values and how to make them a more central, natural, and integrated component of therapy so you can more deliberately bring about moments of life-altering change.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Define values and the function they play in a client’s life and in the therapeutic process.
• Discuss how to help clients construct values rather than simply identifying them.
• Assess when to implement values work in session with clients for the most effective outcomes.
• Identify strategies for how to use values work even with difficult and resistant clients.
• Discuss how values work relates to other essential pieces of the ACT model.
• Identify how core processes of psychological change are lenses through which to view behavior.
• Define committed action and the function it plays in a client’s life and the therapeutic process.
• Examine how to implement committed action, based on values work, in a way that disrupts aversive patterns in a client’s life and builds patterns for change.
• Identify techniques for getting unstuck in values and committed action work with clients.
• Identify how to productively respond to “stuckness” in session.
• Discuss how to help clients work through perceived values conflicts and describe how values can inform, instead of compete with, one another.
• Identify techniques for deepening the therapeutic relationship through an exploration of values.
• Identify inflection points during session and assess clients’ psychological flexibility around values.