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Digital Seminar

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Made Easy: Innovative Techniques for Depression, Anxiety, Trauma & Personality Disorders

  • Integrate an ACT perspective into your current practice
  • Simplify, understand and implement difficult ACT concepts
  • Case examples, video clips and role play

Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into your practice offers a new way for you to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.

Join experienced ACT presenter Douglas Fogel, Psy.D., as he delivers an exercise and technique-heavy course that will give you the tools needed to more effectively treat clients with depression, anxiety, trauma, and the personality disorders.

Dr. Fogel will teach you the main concepts of ACT, including mindfulness, acceptance, and defusion--demonstrating how these create greater psychological flexibility. Discover a variety of techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories. You will learn how to effectively use metaphors, custom techniques and experiential exercises to help your clients identify their values and translate them into behavior goals.

Through case examples, video clips, and role-play you will be able to integrate ACT techniques and skills in your practice tomorrow!

Details

Product Details
Average Rating:
   18
Faculty:
Douglas L Fogel Fogel, PsyD
Duration:
5 Hours 49 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jul 30, 2014
Product Code:
POS046825
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.

CPD

Continuing Professional Development Certificates
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 5.0 hours CPD.

Handouts

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PDF Manual (886.1 KB) 39 Pages Available after Purchase
PDF Manual (886.1 KB) 39 Pages Available after Purchase

Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Define ACT concepts such as experiential avoidance and cognitive defusion.
  2. Illustrate the role of psychological flexibility in ACT and list techniques for increasing it.
  3. Identify how to reduce experiential avoidance by implementing emotional and behavioral willingness techniques with clients.
  4. Show how ACT incorporates elements of exposure therapy to reduce experiential avoidance.
  5. Discover core ACT concepts through the use of role playing, case examples and clinical videos.
  6. Integrate ACT techniques into treatment for specific disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and the personality disorders.

Outline

ACT IN A NUTSHELL

  • The role of values: mindfulness, acceptance, commitment, behavior
  • Experiential avoidance
  • Existential behaviorism
  • Psychological flexibility
  • ACT for anxiety, depression, trauma and personality disorders
  • Disorder-specific strategies
    • Common treatment elements
    • Metaphors, paradox and experiential exercises

ROLE OF EXPOSURE IN ACT

  • Translate client values into behavioral goals
  • Barriers to behavioral goals: external and internal avoidance
  • External Exposure
    • Situations
    • People
  • Internal Exposure
    • Thoughts
    • Emotions
    • Memories
    • Bodily sensations

ACT IN ACTION

Anxiety

  • Client avoidance strategies (including rumination)
  • Clean vs. dirty anxiety
  • Attack reason giving
  • Anxiety detector exercise
  • Turn up the willingness knob
  • Mountain of food metaphor
  • Passengers on the bus metaphor
  • And vs. but

Trauma

  • Function of trauma symptoms
  • Specify treatment goals
  • Target self-harm behaviors
  • Increase psychological safety
  • Tin can monster exercise
  • Mindfulness exercises

Depression

  • Role of avoidance in depression
  • Target suicidality
  • Evaluation vs. description exercise
  • Buy thoughts and defuse language
  • Observing self-exercise

Personality Disorders

  • Increase emotional tolerance
  • Values clarification
  • Mind vs. experience
  • Man in the hole analogy
  • Target the client’s story
  • Work with client anger
  • Role of therapist self-disclosure
  • Chessboard metaphor

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses and other Mental Health Professionals

Reviews

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Overall:      4.4

Total Reviews: 18

Comments

Dale L - Owings Mills, Maryland

"Extremely valuable, left me wanting to know more"

Julie M - BLOOMINGTON, Indiana

"I really enjoyed this seminar. Very practical and useful."

Ruth S - Towson, Maryland

"Loved the presenter. His humor was helpful. "

Les A

"Great course! Thank you!"

Ellen F - MISSOULA, Montana

"I really appreciated this presenter. I would definitely seek him out for further instruction."

Fern H - FOREST GROVE, Oregon

"I completed the online training and thought it was great! I learned a good deal I can put into practice."

Robert F - Boca Raton, Florida

"Thanks very much - great program!"

Joanne H - Big Lake, Minnesota

"I want to learn more!"

Eric H - SUSSEX, Wisconsin

"This seminar furthered my understanding of ACT a great deal, versus just reading about the approach."

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Your satisfaction is our goal and our guarantee. Concerns should be addressed to: PO Box 1000, Eau Claire, WI 54702-1000 or email info@pesi.com.au.

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