Advanced ACT: Shaping Psychological Flexibility on the Fly
8-Session Live Online Course | Thursdays, starting April 4, 2024
16 CE Hours Available
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 work with process-based functional analysis and contextual behavioral interventions that shape psychological flexibility while incorporating principles from functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), clinically-applied relational frame theory (RFT), and evolutionary science to enhance your clinical repertoire.
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 both an overarching objective and your own desired targets for improvement. You’ll have ample opportunities (multiple exemplars) to learn through observation, practice, and feedback in a reinforcing, team-based environment that explores the effectiveness of interventions as well as missed opportunities.
You’ll also learn practical methods for utilizing both observed and direct feedback from clients, equipping you to constantly improve within your own practice.
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) and ACT-SQ (Session Questionnaire), respectively.
- 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.
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.