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Acceptance & Mindfulness in Clinical Practice: The ACT Model AND Developing ACT Skills
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Format:
Package - Video   Instructions
Details:
Multi-disc DVD recording (11 hours, 7 minutes) with electronic manual and instructions.
Author:
STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD
Publisher:
PESI Inc.
Copyright:
12/3/2010
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
RVKIT041870
Objectives
[+] [-] 041105 - The ACT Model & Approach
  • Explain why experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion underlie most forms of psychopathology
  • Define ACT as a psychological flexibility model of health
  • Formulate clinical problems in terms of acceptance, defusion, self, now, values and committed action
  • Identify these processes moment to moment in clients

[+] [-] 041110 - Developing ACT Skills
  • Foster psychological acceptance in clients
  • Quickly reduce the impact of negative thoughts
  • Mobilize and make use of the spiritual side of clients
  • Apply ACT skills and help clients get into contact with their core values
  • Apply ACT methods to reduce the stressful impact of working with difficult clients

Outline
[+] [-] 041105 - The ACT Model & Approach
Acceptance and Mindfulness
  • The role of language in the ubiquity of human suffering
  • Self-struggle and experiential avoidance
  • Objectification and dehumanization

The ACT Model
  • Self
  • Now
  • Acceptance
  • Defusion
  • Values
  • Action
  • Flexibility

Mindfulness from an ACT Point of View

Evidence of Impact

Learning to See ACT Processes in Flight
  • Signs of each ACT process
  • Assessing the Strength of ACT Processes
  • Using the hexaflex model in case conceptualization

Video Example
  • Case conceptualization
  • Breaking down ACT moves moment to moment

[+] [-] 041110 - Developing ACT Skills
Developing ACT Skills
  • Challenging the system: Creative hopelessness
    1. Control as the problem
    2. Self as context: Finding a place for experiential acceptance
    3. Defusion methods
    4. Language traps

The Therapeutic Relationship
  • Embody
  • Instigate
  • Support

Developing ACT Skills
  • Values and choice
  • Willingness
  • Commitment

Author

STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD

STEVEN C. HAYES, PHD Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D., is the co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), best-selling author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life and Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, he has shown in his research how language and thought leads to human suffering, and has developed ACT as a way of correcting these processes. Hayes has been president of several scientific societies and has received several national awards, such as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

His popular book, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life was featured in Timemagazine among several other major media outlets, and for a time was the number one best-selling self-help book in the United States.

Steven Hayes speaks internationally on acceptance and mindfulness and is one of the world’s most influential and cited clinical psychologists.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Steven Hayes has an employment relationship with the University of Nevada. He is the President of the Institute for Better Health and the research director at Praxis Continuing Education and Training. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee for MIND Foundation and receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Hayes has a financial relationship with PsychFlex. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Steven Hayes serves on the policy making council for Universal Scientific Education and Research Network. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the Association for Behavioral Analysis International.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
[+] [-] Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
[+] [-] 041105 - The ACT Model & Approach
[+] [-] 041110 - Developing ACT Skills
Audience
Addiction Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Nurses, Marriage & Family Therapists, Other Mental Health Clinicians, Other Mental Health Professionals