You’re a BCBA and you’re interested in adding acceptance and commitment training (ACT) to your repertoire. However, you’re seeking someone with experience to demonstrate and mentor you on how ACT can be effectively integrated with the clients, situations, and environments you work in. This consultation course addresses how to do just that: introduce ACT into your practice effectively and appropriately within your scope of practice, and adapting ACT practices to fit your work.
Tom Szabo is a BCBA on the cutting edge of ACT who is renowned for his engaging presentation style and innovations in behavior analysis. In this consultation series, you will:
- Engage in fluency drills to hone your skills at identifying the six core ACT repertoire deficits from small bits of dialogue.
- Identify competing contingencies of reinforcement, verbal delay discounting, verbally mediated under and over-matching, behavioral inertia, and other means by which client verbal behavior derails your efforts to bring behavior under relevant stimulus control.
- Craft intervention targets to bring client behavior under the control of appropriate contingencies of reinforcement.
- Practice in-the-moment creation of unique, client-specific exercises.
- Harness the metaphors your clients use to expand flexible relational networks and undermine thorny verbal rules.
In this intimate consultation course, Dr. Szabo will model ACT skills with clients like yours, engage you in case-specific role-plays, give feedback about your integration of ACT, assist you in setting supportive goals, and assist you in evaluating your progress. If you’re attracted to ACT and want intensive practice in a workshop setting before trying to use the model in your ABA practice, this consultation is right for you.
During ACT in Behavior Analysis 9-Week Online Consultation, Tom guides you in the development of your own ACT exercises and metaphors. The aim is that upon completion, you will not need to rely upon books, tapes, or other supplemental prompts to find ACT interventions. You will learn to create your own function-based behavior analytic strategies to meet the needs of individuals with whom you work and to do so on the fly, in the moment.
Learning Objectives
Session 1
August 17, 2018, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
Set goals, identify barriers, review expectations, establish measurement and consultation program-evaluation strategy. Identify the six repertoires involved in behavioral flexibility and inflexibility.
Session 2
August 24, 2018, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
Evaluate speech for competing contingencies, delay discounting, inertia, matching, and defective stimulus control. Analyze the same speech for experiential avoidance, fusion, over-focus on past or future events, rigid perspective-taking, unclear priorities, and behavioral alignment with values.
Session 3
August 31, 2018, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
Apply interventions to behavior with different functions. Practice helping clients set goals, identify potential barriers and interventions, and monitor progress.
Session 4
September 7, 2018, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
More practice intervening and helping clients set goals, identify barriers, plan interventions, and monitor progress.
Session 5
September 21, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
Identify and analyze metaphors in client speech and use them to transform stimulus functions.
Session 6
October 5, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
Use physical movement to address deficits and excesses in core ACT repertoires.
Session 7
October 12, 2018, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
Use physical movement plus items found in your clinic- or home-based service environments to address deficits and excesses in core ACT repertoires.
Session 8
October 19, 2018, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
Develop games, initiatives, and writing and reading activities to promote ACT repertoires.
Session 9
October 26, 2018, 1 PM—3 PM EDT
Wrap up, set personal goals for using ACT training in your practice, identify barriers and interventions, design measurement and intervention evaluation strategy with clients.
This training is worth 18 CE credit hours if attended live. While we can only provide CE to those who are present – i.e. logged in – for live presentation(s), all Praxis webinars are recorded for later viewing. Registrants may then access these recordings at any time for up to six months from the conclusion of the training to which they pertain.
Continuing Education
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Technical Requirements
This is an online learning event. Access to a computer and high-speed internet is required. Refer to our FAQ page for further information on technical requirements for this training.
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All prices listed in US dollars.