Brief Intervention SIG – FACT Book Club & Practice Lab

The Brief Intervention SIG is launching a Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) Book Club & Practice Lab, beginning January 2026. This interactive series is designed for clinicians interested in brief, functional, and team-based behavioral health care, with an emphasis on applied FACT skills in primary care and integrated settings.

We will be using Robinson & Reiter (3rd ed.), Behavioral Consultation and Primary Care: A Guide to Integrating Services (other editions welcome) as our core text. Each meeting combines guided discussion, case examples, and applied practice lab exercises, with a focus on workability, flexibility, and real-world implementation.

January Focus (Parts I–III): Foundations & Core Competencies

The January session will cover:

• The Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model and its population-based framework

• Systems-level and administrative considerations in integrated care

• Core competencies for Behavioral Health Consultants and primary care teams, including clinical and team-based skills
  These sections provide a shared foundation for understanding how FACT fits naturally within PCBH and brief intervention models

Upcoming Sessions

• February 24, 2026 – Part IV: FACT and the emerging profession of Behavioral Health Consultation, including functional assessment, pragmatic behavior change experiments, and team-supported interventions 

• March 24, 2026 – Part V: Advanced Behavioral Health Consultant roles, leadership pathways, supervision, and system-level impact 

• April 2026 – Part VI: Common challenges in integrated care, FAQs, and reflections on next steps and sustainability 

All experience levels are welcome. Come for the discussion, stay for the skill-building, and leave with practical tools you can use the very next day.