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With its rapidly expanding and robust evidence base, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a third-wave behavioral therapy, has become known as a powerful and broadly applicable approach to mental health and human wellbeing. Join Lou Lasprugato, Peer-Reviewed ACT Trainer, for this live-online interactive introductory workshop designed to integrate a conceptual, experiential, and practical understanding of ACT. Participants will be provided with an overview of the model that includes all key concepts while experiencing psychological flexibility processes from the inside-out and observing demonstrations of its clinical application.
This workshop is designed for mental/behavioral health professionals and students who are either new to ACT (introductory) or have some experience with the model (intermediate).
6 CEs are available for NYS LMHCs, LMSWs, LCSWs, LMFTs, LCATs, NYS Licensed Psychologists and NYS Licensed Psychoanalysts upon completion of this training.
*Please note that a lunch break is scheduled 12pm-1pm.
Objectives:
Upon completion of the training participants will be able to
-relate ACT to its philosophy of science and theoretical underpinnings.
-explain the concept of workability and how it informs the entire ACT model.
-list the six core processes of psychological flexibility/inflexibility.
-illustrate how creative hopelessness can be used to undermine unworkable patterns of behavior.
-describe how to facilitate contact with the present moment and self-as-context.
-describe how to facilitate defusion from sticky cognitions and acceptance of painful feelings.
-describe how to identify values and increase commitment to values-based actions.
-list the qualities of the ACT therapeutic stance and its relation to psychological flexibility.