The Next ACT: How 40 Years of Development Has Prepared CBS for What is Coming.

The Next ACT: How 40 Years of Development Has Prepared CBS for What is Coming.

The Next ACT: How 40 Years of Development Has Prepared CBS for What is Coming.
 

Workshop Leader: 
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.
Gijs Jansen, Ph.D.
Joseph Ciarrochi, Ph.D. 
 
Monday, 24 July 2023 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Tuesday, 25 July 2023 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.
(12 total contact hours) 
 
Workshop Description:
 
ACT is 40 years old. ACT was originally based on a reticulated modification of the "bottom up" model of behavior analysis leading to its expansion by functional contextualism and relational frame theory. Recently, the entire world of evidence-based therapy has turned in a process-based direction. ACT has been pursuing this approach throughout its history but what is being learned now in process based therapy is beginning to impact core ACT ideas and the psychological flexibility model itself. In this workshop I will try to share what I've learned over 40 years of ACT development and to apply those lessons to the next decades of ACT. I will argue that a full embrace of a process-based approach requires new measurement methods, new analytic methods, and an expansion of ACT ideas to cover additional key processes of change. These changes are profound and I will attempt to show how tools already exist and others are being developed that will foster transformational change in our field, clinically, empirically, and theoretically.
 
About Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D.: 

Steven C. Hayes is a Nevada Foundation Professor in the Behavior Analysis program at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 47 books and over 675 scientific articles, he is the originator of Relational Frame Theory (RFT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Functional Contextualism. His popular book Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life was the first general purpose ACT self-help book and was featured in Time Magazine among several other major media outlets and for a time was the best-selling self-help book in the United States. His book, A Liberated Mind, has summarized the history of ACT and Contextual Behavior Science. Dr. Hayes has been President of several scientific societies, including ACBS, and he has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Google Scholar ranks him as among the top most cited living scholars in all areas of study and Research.com ranks him as among the most cited psychologists in the world. He is currently trying to explicate a Process-Based Therapy approach (which he is developing with Stefan Hofmann, Joseph Ciarrochi, and several others), using ACR development strategies in part as a model.
 

On completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe how the the six processes in a traditional ACT approach to psychological flexibility / inflexibility are expanded by the Extended Evolutionary Meta-Model
  2. Describe the requirements for phenomena to be ergodic
  3. Explain how the six flexibility processes can be extended to the sociocultural level
  4. Demonstrate the ability to formulate an EEMM consistent case conceptualization using a network approach
  5. List the six kinds of healthy yearnings that underlie the six psychological inflexibility processes and link these ideas to the EEMM
  6. Describe how psychological flexibility processes satisfy the yearnings the sit inside inflexibility processes
  7. Explain the link between eugenics and psychometrics or for normative conceptual categories as applied to individuals
  8. Describe the essential requirements of idionomic statistics
  9. Link common idionomic statistical methods to process-based case conceptualization
  10. List at least two client actions that indicate each of the flexibility / inflexibility processes during a session
  11. Describe how the EEMM expansion of psychological flexibility expands ACT
  12. Show how cognitive reappraisal can be done in a way that fit the EEMM
  13. Describe how neurobiological measures can compliment EEMM based EMA assessments
  14. Demonstrate at least two methods to move each of the key features of processes of change in the EEMM

Target Audience: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Clinical, Research

Components: Conceptual analysis, Original data, Experiential exercises, Didactic presentation, Case Presentation, Role play

Package Includes: A general certificate of attendance

CEs Available (12 hours): CEs for Psychologists, BCBA
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