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 theories and techniques; it requires adapting in response to what you’ve learned through various forms of 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 important to expand one’s clinical "toolkit", it's just as vital to learn how to integrate targeted 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.
Peer-Reviewed Trainer, Lou Lasprugato, will facilitate a collaborative and supportive training forum that focuses on self-assessment, deliberate practice, and functional feedback.
Through in-depth instruction, you’ll learn how to skillfully detect behavior under aversive versus appetitive control, perform a process-based functional assessment across six psychological dimensions, and implement contextual behavioral interventions that shape psychological flexibility. The course will integrate principles from functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), clinically-applied relational frame theory (RFT), and evolutionary science to enhance your training experience.
You’ll gauge your clinical development with the ACT-FM (Fidelity Measure), which assesses competency in four key domains: therapeutic stance, openness, awareness, and engagement.
Participants will be introduced to and have the opportunity to work with the ABC Choice Point, an adapted version of Russ Harris’ tool that lends itself well to virtual applications.
The course will conclude with what is infamously called, “Hexadancing,” a training procedure designed to increase your flexibility and adaptability as an ACT practitioner, as well as practice in deliberately making use of real-time functional feedback to shape clinicians’ repertoires.
Each session will include experiential breakouts guided by both an overarching objective and your own desired targets for improvement. You’ll have ample opportunities (multiple exemplars) to learn through observation, video vignettes, practice, and feedback in a reinforcing environment.
Through eight interactive sessions you will:
- Become more adept at detecting subtle shifts in behavior under aversive (inflexible) versus appetitive (flexible) control.
- Utilize on-the-fly functional assessment across six psychological dimensions to more precisely target processes in-the-moment.
- Practice shaping psychological flexibility through modeling, evoking, and reinforcing behavior.
- Gauge your clinical development and effectiveness with the ACT-FM (Fidelity Measure).
- 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 and innovative applications.
Join us live-online for Advanced ACT to take your clinical skill set to the next level and cultivate meaningful, ongoing growth in your practice.