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Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders

Are your current techniques just not working?

You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through. You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.

Watch ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, as he delivers an exercise and intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.

You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitive-behavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.

By shifting client focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.

Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!

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Objectives

1. Appraise ACT concepts such as experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion in session.
2. Assess client’s fusion with thoughts about the past or future and illustrate mindfulness exercises to clients in a clinical setting.
3. Evaluate the role of psychological flexibility in ACT and devise interventions for increasing it to improve treatment outcomes.
4. Construct emotional and behavioural willingness exercises to address experiential avoidance.
5. Analyze the efficacy of exercises in values clarification as it relates to treatment outcomes.
6. Integrate the ACT approach into treatment to address clinically-relevant issues for specific disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and personality disorders.

Module 5 | ACT for Body Acceptance

Clients are swimming upstream when it comes to positive body image. Hounded with unattainable white western standards about what constitutes an acceptable body, many stop pursuing the life they want. And at the same time, clients can feel shame that they struggle with body positivity and may blame themselves for being stuck. This session will teach you strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients accept the body they inhabit and use it to pursue meaningful activities even as they experience distressing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

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Objectives

1. Determine the role of avoidance of thoughts and feelings about body image in keeping clients stuck.
2. Describe the differences between acceptance and approval when it comes to body image.
3. Employ values-based action plans to guide clients in taking committed action toward their values.

The ACT Approach: A Comprehensive Guide for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Congratulations to Timothy Gordon, Jessica Borushok and The ACT Approach: A Comprehensive Guide for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on winning the gold medal at the 2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for editorial and design excellence in the Psychology category!

ACT With Anxiety: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook to Get You Unstuck from Anxiety and Enrich Your Life

Anxiety, in all its various forms, is one of the most common mental health challenges today. Although many of us attempt to deal with anxiety by pushing it away or trying to avoid it altogether, this often has the paradoxical effect of making it worse. Worrying sparks anxiety, and anxiety sparks more worrying, and our lives become smaller. Fortunately, new research reveals how to break free from the anxiety trap.

In this engaging and easy-to-read workbook, Dr. Sears provides detailed explanations, case examples, and practical worksheets to show you how to work with your anxiety instead of trying to battle against it. Using cutting-edge techniques and principles, you’ll learn tools to transform anxiety and create a richer and more fulfilling life.

The ACT Deck: 55 Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Practices to Build Connection, Find Focus and Reduce Stress

The ACT Deck offers 55 practices based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for use in therapy, classrooms or at home. These cards ask tough questions, encourage meaningful action and provide new perspectives to help you let go of negative thoughts and live in the present moment.

Using mindfulness and acceptance strategies, this highly practical deck can help anyone suffering from:

• Stress
• Anxiety & depression
• Chronic pain
• Relationship problems
• Focus and attention issues
• Painful memories & feelings

ACT in Action: Q&A Call with Daniel J. Moran, Ph.D., BCBA-D

Program Information

Objectives

1. Practice ACT conceptualizations, such as experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion in session.
2. Identify the role of psychological flexibility in ACT and ways of increasing it to improve treatment outcomes.
3. Discover ways to include the ACT approach into the strategies you’re already using to treat specific disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and personality disorders.