Full Course Description

Module 1 | The ACT Model

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-behavioural change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behaviour 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 behaviour 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!

Program Information

Objectives

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

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Module 2 | Components of the ACT Model

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Module 3 | ACT in Action

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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.

Program Information

Objectives

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

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

Dr. Daniel Moran, PhD, BCBA-D, clarifies key points of ACT therapy and provides examples of how it would work in various scenarios in response to provider questions. This session addresses how utilizing the six components of ACT therapy in an integrative manner creates psychological flexibility, how cultural conditioning creates a viewpoint that ACT therapy counters, and how to generalize the skill set of ACT components to client’s everyday lives, as well as providing ACT specific language to use during sessions.

Program Information

Objectives

Practice ACT conceptualizations, such as experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion in session.
Identify the role of psychological flexibility in ACT and ways of increasing it to improve treatment outcomes.
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.