Feedback-Enhanced ACT

Growing as a practitioner is not an automatic process.

Counter to what one might expect, studies have shown that practitioner experience and time in the field alone do not determine better client outcomes.

Real, meaningful growth is about more than just learning new theory and techniques. It requires adapting in response to what you’ve learned through regular feedback.

A chef, for instance, may spend years learning and practicing their craft. But if they never taste their food or hear reactions from diners, they will never improve.

For mental health practitioners, the same principle applies:

While it is very important to expand the clinical “toolkit” through trainings on skills and theory, it’s also important to learn how to integrate feedback in a functional way so that you can continuously adapt and improve.

This course is built with just that sort of training in mind.

Designed for practitioners who utilize acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in their practice, this live online course aims to deepen, broaden, and sharpen your clinical skills in ACT.

ACBS peer-reviewed trainer, Lou Lasprugato, will facilitate a collaborative and supportive training forum that will focus on self-assessment, deliberate practice, and functional feedback.

Through in-depth instruction, you’ll explore function, approach, analysis, and interventions from a contextual behavioral perspective, incorporating mechanisms of change from functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) and the clinical application of relational frame theory (RFT).

You’ll learn to gauge your clinical development with the ACT-FM (Fidelity Measure), which assesses competency in four key clinical domains: therapeutic stance, openness, awareness, and engagement.

Each session will include experiential breakouts guided by your own experience and focusing on the areas you’d most like to improve. You’ll have ample opportunities (multiple exemplars) to learn through observation, practice, and feedback in a reinforcing, team-based environment.

You’ll also learn practical methods for utilizing functional and direct feedback with clients, equipping you to constantly improve within your own practice.

Through 8 interactive sessions you will:

• 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.
• Practice transforming the function of your client’s experiences by altering their context through relational framing and process-based interventions.
• 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.
• Identify personal consistencies and inconsistencies so you can focus on improving the specific skills most relevant to you.
• Broaden and enhance your ACT repertoire with key evolutionary processes.
• Explore how to adapt these strategies in a telehealth context.

Join us online and learn how a feedback-enhanced approach can help you confidently take on the most challenging aspects of your ACT work, and cultivate meaningful, ongoing growth in your practice.

This training is worth 16 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.

Prior to registering, please review speaker-planner conflict of interest disclosures and complete CE information.