Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Step-by-StepProgram InformationObjectivesUse the six core processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients advance psychological flexibility.Incorporate the role of psychological flexibility in ACT and list clinical techniques for increasing it.Utilize acceptance approaches with avoidance problems to strengthen a client’s willingness to have emotions.Implement clinical skills for helping clients to defuse from language obstacles.Utilize exercises in therapy with clients like, contacting the present moment, to aid clients with developing flexibility to engage in the present moment and let go of their struggles.Analyze how a client’s unclarified values can lead to clinical problems in relation to assessment and treatment planning.Integrate ACT into different therapeutic styles and methods as an approach to managing symptoms.Create committed action plans for clients with anxiety disorders to improve level of functioning.Use metaphors to undermine language-based avoidance repertoires to improve client engagement.Implement emotional and behavioral willingness techniques with clients to reduce experiential avoidance.Integrate ACT techniques into treatment for specific disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and the personality disorders.Demonstrate how ACT incorporates elements of exposure therapy to reduce experiential avoidance.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): In-Session Videos narrated by Dr. Steven C. HayesProgram InformationObjectivesSession 1: Facing the StruggleApply the core theory and principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) used in clinical practice.Analyze how “creative hopelessness” lays the groundwork for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).Session 2: Control & AcceptancePrepare clients to accept their thoughts and feelings, and modify their need to control or eliminate them.Integrate ACT “eyes closed” techniques into your sessions with powerful effects.Session 3: Cognitive DefusionApply cognitive defusion used within clinical practice.Anticipate common pitfalls with cognitive defusion, and apply methods for recognizing and remedying them.Session 4: Mindfulness, Self & Contact with the Present MomentFormulate “eyes-closed” exercises you can integrate into clinical practice.Generate examples of how to facilitate awareness of the “observing self” with clients.Session 5: Values & ActionDiscriminate between the ACT concepts of values and goalsModify ACT techniques for increased effectiveness with adolescentsSession 6: Psychological FlexibilityArticulate ways to adapt ACT in brief-therapy settings and situations.Formulate how to help clients get the most benefit from exposure therapy within the ACT Paradigm.
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OPD Points: 10
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Presenter / Provider:
Daniel Moran & Steven Hayes
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Daniel J. Moran, Ph.D., BCBA -D, is the past-president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, the international ACT organization with over 8,000 members worldwide. He wrote the first case conceptualization manual for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy entitled ACT in Practice (New Harbinger), and served on the first ACT training committee.As a Recognized ACT trainer in the ACBS community, Dr. Moran has an engaging training style has led him to be an invited keynote speaker for many events in the last decade. He has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Network, TLC, and The Discovery Channel discussing the treatment of many clinical disorders, and he has also published several articles and book chapters, including publications with CBT pioneer Albert Ellis and ACT pioneer Steven Hayes.Dr. Moran founded the MidAmerican Psychological Institute and has a passion for applying ACT principles in important areas outside of the clinic, such as the boardroom or construction sites. He established Pickslyde Consulting and the Institute for Higher Performance in order to bring mindfulness and value-directed commitment skills to the workplace to improve safety, innovation, and leadership. Dr. Moran has utilized ACT in work implementations and clinical training sites on six continents and in all 50 of the United States.Steven C. Hayes, PhD, is the co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), best-selling author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life and Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and has developed ACT as a way of correcting these processes. Hayes has been president of several scientific societies and has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.His popular book Get Out Of Your Mind and Into Your Life was featured in Time magazine among several other major media outlets, and for a time was the number one best-selling self-help book in the United States.Steven C. Hayes speaks internationally on acceptance and mindfulness and is one of the world's most influential and cited clinical psychologists.
