ACT Group Therapy Workshop
Clinical Skills for Leading Effective Groups and Fostering Sustainable Change
- Speaker:
- Renee Hoekstra, PsyD
- Duration:
- Full Day
- Product Code:
- LWC150972
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ96470
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar
Description
- ACT interventions to help your groups live by what matters
- Teach mindfulness in ways that actually change behavior
- Adapt ACT interventions across a wide range of clinical concerns
- Lead ACT groups with clarity, confidence, and fewer missteps
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is one of the most effective modalities out there.
It’s less rigid and pathologizing than many approaches, so clients feel safer, more human, and stay in treatment long enough to see actual results.
But ACT is also about the human experience – connection, shared struggle, and the messy work of living the life you want …
… making it a perfect fit for group work.
Now you can bring the power of ACT into your groups with this intensive training.
You’ll join Renee Hoekstra, PsyD, who has 20+ experience running groups.
She’ll teach you to use the core interventions of ACT, how to adapt them for group process to manage resistance and difficult dynamics …
… PLUS share experiential exercises, metaphors, and mindfulness practices that get clients out of their heads, into the present moment, and moving toward a life built around what really matters to them.
Whether you’re working with clients who have social anxiety, chronic stress, or substance use in inpatient, agency, or private practice settings, you’ll learn:
- ACT applications to build cognitive flexibility and support a valued-driven life
- Mindfulness practices that help clients stay present and change their behavior
- Essential do’s and don’ts of ACT groups to lead with confidence
- How to Adapt ACT interventions across issues – from anxiety to addiction and more!
Register today and expand your impact with ACT group therapy.
Credit
Speaker
Renee Hoekstra, PsyD Related seminars and products
Renee Hoekstra, PsyD, became a licensed clinical psychologist in Massachusetts in 2008 and has been in private practice since 2009. She has over 20 years of experience lea DBT informed groups in both intensive treatment settings and in private practice. She has gotten extensive exposure and training in DBT, including a six-month seminar through the University of Washington and a Harvard post-doctorate position with Massachusetts Mental Health Center. She has put together various workshops, readings, and speeches related to the contextual and behavioral sciences, has a certification in functional analytic psychotherapy, has obtained various ACT trainings, and actively participates in an ACT peer consultation group.
She self-published The Emotional Extremist’s Guide to Handling Cartoon Elephants in 2013, which includes her own watercolor artwork and whimsical graphic design to help people manage their elephants (emotions!). She has worked in inpatient hospital settings, crisis lines, community mental health, and has interviewed thousands of claimants for social security disability evaluations. She has also facilitated workshops on barriers to creativity, surviving the dark of winter, and parenting the emotionally extreme teen. Her ongoing online small groups focus on reducing the symptoms of depression and managing moods. She is all about warmth, growth, cohesion, skill building, being challenged, being present, and setting up platforms to help people thrive through building relationships.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Renee Hoekstra maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Disability Determination Services. She receives royalties as a published author. Renee Hoekstra receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Renee Hoekstra has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
Access Period for Live WebcastYou will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Identify three things a leader can do to start a group effectively.
- Apply three principles of behavioral analytic theory to group therapy.
- Identify three ways to help a client identify their values.
- Choose one way of teaching mindfulness to clients and one way of teaching self-as-context to clients.
- Determine three ideas for how to implement interventions targeting delusion in groups.
- Utilize a model for clinicians to implement behavior change as a valued and impactful clinical intervention.
Outline
The ACT Group Therapy Foundations
- Structure your groups, populations and demographics
- Adapt ACT interventions to the needs of your group
- Most common group challenges clinicians face
- Clinical self-assessment
- Research, risks and limitations
Applying ACT as a Third Wave Behavior Therapy
- Understand third wave therapies and behavioral analytics
- Apply the A-B-C in group therapy
- Build the ACT case conceptualizations relevant to group therapy
- Introduction to ACT hexaflex in group therapy
Clinical Tools for Value Clarification in Group Therapy
- Psychoeducation for valued directions in group therapy
- Practical exercises for clarifying values
- Most common barriers to identifying values in groups
- Guide clients to clarify who and how they want to be
Clinical Tools for Mindfulness, Self-As-Context and Experiential Avoidance
- What is mindfulness exactly and how do we teach it
- Demystify and apply ACT concepts: Self-As-Content vs. Self-As-Context
- Experiential exercises for mindfulness and self-as-context in group therapy
- How to connect the bigger picture (values) to the present moment
Clinical Tools for Defusion, Acceptance and Flexible Play
- Psychoeducation interventions to introduce cognitive flexibility/brainstorm of ideas
- Psychodrama and movement exercises for group therapy
- Modify intensity of interventions and attending to the group dynamic
- Practical attending to group as a whole in ACT therapy
Clinical Tools for Committed Action in Group Therapy
- Make use of the ACT matrix to ACT
- Practical writing exercises for teaching A-B-C’s to your group
- Practical tools for tracking change, improvements, challenges in groups
- Open discussion, Q&A and reflections
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- School Counselors
- School Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Behavioral Health Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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