Feedback-Enhanced ACT: Shaping Psychological Flexibility On-The-Fly
About This Course
Through 8 online sessions you will:
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- Become more adept at identifying functions of stimuli and responses that directly limit or liberate our clients' lives.
- Adopt an experiential, pragmatic, integrative, and contextual approach to therapy that naturally allows for transformations of function to occur.
- Learn to develop on-the-fly functional analysis to more precisely and flexibly target processes in-the-moment.
- Practice shaping psychological flexibility through modeling, evoking, and reinforcing behavior.
- Gauge your clinical development with the ACT-FM (Fidelity Measure), which assesses competency in four key clinical domains: therapeutic stance, openness, awareness, and engagement.
- Broaden and enhance your ACT repertoire with key evolutionary processes.
- Explore how to adapt these strategies in a telehealth context.
You will leave this course with an ability to more fluidly and effectively make use of process-based functional analysis, the therapeutic alliance, and behavioral interventions designed to shape psychological flexibility with respect to client and context.
Schedule
Session 1 | January 15, 2021, 4 PM—6 PM EST
Deliberate Practice / Functional Feedback
Session 2 | January 22, 2021, 4 PM—6 PM EST
EPIC Approach / Transforming Function
Session 3 | January 29, 2021, 4 PM—6 PM EST
Process-Based Functional Analysis
Session 4 | February 5, 2021, 4 PM—6 PM EST
Shaping Behavior / Interventions
Session 5 | February 12, 2021, 4 PM—6 PM EST
Therapeutic Stance / Alliance
Session 6 | February 19, 2021, 4 PM—6 PM EST
Openness / Relational Variation
Session 7 | February 26, 2021, 4 PM—6 PM EST
Awareness / Context Sensitivity
Session 8 | March 5, 2021, 4 PM—6 PM EST
Engagement / Selection and Retention
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe ways to enhance clinical competency through self-assessment and purposeful practice
- Describe how to deliberately make use of verbalized functional feedback to sharpen clinical skills
- Utilize on-the-fly functional analysis to understand and influence behavior
- Detect in-the-moment shifts in psychological flexibility during therapeutic exchanges
- Discuss how to foster context sensitivity and functional coherence through an experiential, pragmatic, and integrative approach
- Demonstrate how to shape psychological flexibility through modeling, evoking, and reinforcing the core processes
- Identify at least 2 ways to strengthen the therapeutic alliance through a collaborative and compassionate stance
- Apply fundamental principles from contextual behavioral and evolutionary sciences to increase precision, scope, and depth of therapeutic interventions
- Discuss how to promote adaptation through variation, selection, and retention of new behaviors
- Identify how to increase proficiency in working with the three ACT pillars of openness, awareness, and engagement
Continuing Education
Please review complete CE and conflict-of-interest disclosure information prior to registering. This course is jointly sponsored by Praxis CET and Institute for Better Health (IBH) and is approved for 16 CE Hours by the following:
- NBCC – National Counselors
- NAADAC – Drug & Alcohol Counselors
- WESPSB – Educators
- ACCME – Physicians
- ANCC – Nurses
- NASW - This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886825109-7164) for 16 continuing education contact hours
- APA - Psychologist: Institute for Better Health, Inc is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer continuing education for psychologists. Institute for Better Health, Inc maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
- NY State: Social Worker, Counselor, & Psychologists
Prerequisites
Audience
Recommended Reading
Luoma, J. B., Hayes, S. C., & Walser, R. D. (2017). Learning ACT: An acceptance & commitment therapy skills-training manual for therapists. New Harbinger Publications.
Strosahl, K. D., Robinson, P. J., & Gustavsson, T. (2012). Brief interventions for radical change: Principles and practice of focused acceptance and commitment therapy. New Harbinger Publications.
Villatte, M., Villatte, J. L., & Hayes, S. C. (2015). Mastering the clinical conversation: Language as intervention. Guilford Publications.
Walser, R. D. (2019). The Heart of ACT: Developing a Flexible, Process-Based, and Client-Centered Practice Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. New Harbinger Publications.
References
Chow, D. L., Miller, S. D., Seidel, J. A., Kane, R. T., Thornton, J. A., & Andrews, W. P. (2015). The role of deliberate practice in the development of highly effective psychotherapists. Psychotherapy, 52(3), 337.
Hayes, Steven. (2019). Acceptance and commitment therapy: towards a unified model of behavior change. World Psychiatry. 18. 226-227. 10.1002/wps.20626.
Hayes, S. C., & Sanford, B. T. (2015). Modern psychotherapy as a multidimensional multilevel evolutionary process. Current Opinion in Psychology, 2, 16-20.
Levin, M. E., Krafft, J., Hicks, E. T., Pierce, B., & Twohig, M. P. (2020). A randomized dismantling trial of the open and engaged components of acceptance and commitment therapy in an online intervention for distressed college students. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 126, 103557.
Strosahl, K. D., Robinson, P. J., & Gustavsson, T. (2012). Brief interventions for radical change: Principles and practice of focused acceptance and commitment therapy. New Harbinger Publications.
Walser, R. D., Karlin, B. E., Trockel, M., Mazina, B., & Taylor, C. B. (2013). Training in and implementation of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for depression in the Veterans Health Administration: Therapist and patient outcomes. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 51(9), 555-563.
Refund and Cancellation Policy
We understand, sometimes things come up!
Praxis will offer a full refund to registrants of both live and live-online trainings who cancel their registration up to 14 days before the course or workshop start date, minus an administrative processing fee of $30 for a 2-day workshop or online course, and a $50 fee for a 4-day workshop. If cancelled within 14 days, no refund will be issued, however, a credit for the same amount will be applied toward another learning product, which expires within 1 year. Please contact us at events@praxiscet.com to cancel a registration.
