Praxis Continuing Education & Training Working with Self and Identity in Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Praxis Continuing Education & Training Working with Self and Identity in Acceptance And Commitment Therapy (ACT) is organized by Praxis Continuing Education and Training (CET), Inc..
Release Date: 7/15/2022
Expiration Date: 7/15/2025
Description:
Inside the course, Dr. Wilson will take you on an exploration of self and identity with his uniquely heartfelt approach. The principles you’ll learn will help you:
• Broaden your clients’ sense of self without getting stuck on self-as-context.
• Approach self in a sensitive and compassionate way.
• Use self-compassion to support your clients’ growth in self and identity.
• Utilize the entire hexaflex to help clients build flexibility around sense of self.
• Understand how your own patterns affect the therapeutic relationship.
After completing the material, you’ll have a practical understanding of the self process in ACT and an actionable approach to working with self and identity in the therapy room.
You’ll know how to avoid roadblocks and recognize opportunities for self work that involve the entire ACT hexaflex.
And you’ll be prepared to confidently help your clients build a more flexible sense of self that has more freedom and agency.
Let’s take a closer look at how Working With Self and Identity in ACT will help you strengthen your therapy toolkit.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
• Define self from an ACT perspective and how self processes contribute to psychological flexibility.
• Discuss how a sense of self forms due to social interaction and derived relational responding.
• Discuss self-as-context, self-as-process, and self-as-content and the part each plays in self work.
• Explain the relationship between self processes and other essential processes of change in the ACT model.
• Assess a client’s “selfing” flexibility and help them practice responding more flexibly.
• Discuss the function of self-stories, including narratives that are negative or are about the client “not knowing who they are”.
• Apply strategies for eroding cognitively fused narratives in order to help clients access a broader, more flexible sense of self.
• Discuss the way that narrow patterns of selfing are reinforced.
• Identify opportunities to disrupt narrow selfing repertoires and create a context that increases the possibility of behavior change.
• Discuss self-compassion and how to help clients cultivate it.
• Discuss how clinicians’ selfing repertoires influence their work.
• Discuss how clinicians can sensitively approach work with clients whose cultural identities are different from their own.
• Discuss the role of social belonging in sense of self and how to address isolation through self work.