Praxis Presents
ACT in Behavior Analysis: 9-Week Consultation Course
Cost: $629 | Location: Online | 18 CE Hours Available
Every Friday from 1-3 PM EST from October 6th to December 15th
In this intimate online consultation course, Dr. Szabo will model ACT skills with clients like yours, engage you in case-specific role-plays, give feedback about your integration of ACT, assist you in setting supportive goals, and assist you in evaluating your progress. Attendees should expect an average of 1.5 hours worth of homework between sessions—this may involve reading or video assignments as well as communicating with other members of the course for the purposes of further skills training work. If you’re attracted to ACT and want intensive practice in a workshop setting before trying to use the model in your ABA practice, this consultation is right for you.
During ACT in Behavior Analysis 9-Week Online Consultation, Tom guides you in the development of your own ACT exercises and metaphors. The aim is that upon completion, you will not need to rely upon books, tapes, or other supplemental prompts to find ACT interventions. You will learn to create your own function-based behavior analytic strategies to meet the needs of individuals with whom you work and to do so on the fly, in the moment.
Learning Objectives
Set goals, identify barriers, review expectations, establish measurement and consultation program-evaluation strategy.
Identify the six repertoires involved in behavioral flexibility and inflexibility.
Evaluate speech for competing contingencies, delay discounting, inertia, matching, and defective stimulus control.
Analyze the same speech for experiential avoidance, fusion, over-focus on past or future events, rigid perspective-taking, unclear priorities, and behavioral alignment with values.
Describe recent applied literature on establishing a variety of relational frames.
Apply interventions to behavior with different functions.
Discuss how to help clients set goals, identify potential barriers and interventions, and monitor progress.
Identify and analyze metaphors in client speech and use them to transform stimulus functions.
Use physical movement to address deficits and excesses in core ACT repertoires.
Use physical movement plus items found in your clinic- or home-based service environments to address deficits and excesses in core ACT repertoires.
Develop games, initiatives, and writing and reading activities to promote ACT repertoires.
Set personal goals for using ACT training in your practice and identify ways of implementation.
Identify barriers and interventions, design measurement and intervention evaluation strategy with clients.
Schedule
Session 1: October 6, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EDT: Introductions and Intro to ACT terms
Session 2: October 13, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EDT: Scope of Practice and the ACT Functional Assessment
Session 3: October 20, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EDT: ACT Functional Assessment Continued
Session 4: October 27, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EDT: The ACT Matrix
Session 5: November 3, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EDT: The ACT Matrix Continued
Session 6: November 17, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Catching Metaphors in Flight
Session 7: December 1, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Physicalizing Metaphors
Session 8: December 8, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Putting It All Together
Session 9: December 15, 2023, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Putting It All Together Continued
This training is worth 18 CE credit hours if attended live. While we can only provide CE to those who are present – i.e. logged in – for all live sessions, Praxis webinars are recorded for later viewing. Registrants may access these recordings at any time for up to nine months from the conclusion of the training to which they pertain.