Praxis Continuing Education & Training Healing Trauma with Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Praxis Continuing Education & Training Healing Trauma with Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) is organized by Praxis Continuing Education and Training (CET), Inc..
Release Date: 10/01/2021
Expiration Date: 10/31/2024
Description:
Healing Trauma with ACT is an online course taught by Dr. Robyn D. Walser, a renowned trainer, researcher, and thought leader in the acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) community and expert in helping clients recover from trauma.
Inside the course, Dr. Walser will teach you how to apply ACT in trauma treatment to promote resilience, engagement, and positive change among trauma survivors. Through 12 modules of clear instruction and role-play demonstrations, you will learn how to loosen trauma’s grip by building clients’ psychological flexibility. You’ll also complete experiential and practical exercises and listen to detailed role play debriefs in order to ground key learning points.
After completing the course material, you’ll be able to more effectively and compassionately help trauma survivors heal, embrace experience, and find a renewed sense of connection and meaning.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Describe the impact of trauma and the role of language in the falsehood of orderliness.
• Explain the fallout of trauma and its impact on psychological flexibility.
• Differentiate between verbal and experiential knowing.
• Explain the three stages of trauma treatment.
• Explain how willingness and defusion can support approaches to exposure in trauma-focused treatment.
• Describe willingness to experience and its relationship to emotion and trauma exposure.
• Explain how present moment and mindfulness work can help trauma survivors recover.
• Describe how self-as-context can assist with the relationship to memories for those who have experienced trauma.
• Describe how values are violated and can be re-engaged following trauma fallout.
• Explain how to focus in-vivo exposures by using committed actions linked to values in trauma treatment.
• Explain the difference between trauma and moral injury.
• Identify moral injury in trauma survivors and describe how ACT can be used to treat it.
• Explain the importance of the interpersonal relationship in treating trauma.
• Describe how ACT can be integrated with other trauma treatments.
• Describe how to conceptualize a case from an ACT perspective.