Praxis Presents
Advanced ACT
Shaping Psychological Flexibility on the Fly
Cost: $449 (Professional) or $224.50 (Student) | Location: Online | 16 CE Hours Available
Every Thursday from 1-3 PM EST from April 4th to May 23rd 2024
Have you had some training in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), yet are wondering how to increase your competency? Do you find yourself relying mostly on techniques - classic exercises and metaphors - without knowing how to most effectively make use of ACT from the ground up with a given client? Would you like to know how to target key processes of change that can radically transform how you relate to and approach human suffering and its alleviation? Do you have blind spots or skill deficits that you’d like to specifically target and improve upon?
This interactive, intermediate-to-advanced live-online course facilitated by Lou Lasprugato, Peer-Reviewed ACT Trainer, now in its 4th annual iteration, is designed to deepen, broaden, and sharpen your clinical skills in ACT through self-assessment, deliberate practice, and functional feedback. You will leave this course with an ability to more fluidly and effectively make use of process-based functional analysis, the therapeutic relationship, and behavioral interventions that shape psychological flexibility with respect to client and context.
Learning Objectives
Describe ways to enhance clinical competency through self-assessment and purposeful practice
Demonstrate how to deliberately make use of functional feedback to sharpen clinical skills
Detect in-the-moment shifts in psychological flexibility as behavior under aversive versus appetitive control
Discuss how to perform an on-the-fly functional assessment across six psychological dimensions
Demonstrate how to shape psychological flexibility through modeling, evoking, and reinforcing core processes
Identify the qualities of an ACT-consistent therapeutic stance that naturally foster a strong working alliance
Discuss how to apply fundamental principles from contextual behavioral and evolutionary sciences to increase precision, scope, and depth of therapeutic interventions
Discuss how to promote adaptation through variation, selection, and retention of new behaviors
Identify how to increase proficiency in working with the three ACT pillars of openness, awareness, and engagement
Discuss functionality and flexibility of process-based interventions through validated measures and innovative practices
Schedule
Session 1 | April 4th, 2024, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Deliberate Practice / Aversive vs Appetitive Control
Session 2 | April 11th, 2024, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Process-Based Functional Assessment / Flexibility Across Dimensions
Session 3 | April 18th, 2024, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Shaping Behavior / Shaping Psychological Flexibility
Session 4 | April 25th, 2024, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Therapeutic Relationship / ACT Therapeutic Stance
Session 5 | May 2nd, 2024, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Relational Variation / Openness: Defusion and Acceptance
Session 6 | May 9th, 2024, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Context Sensitivity / Awareness: Present Moment and Self-As-Context
Session 7 | May 16th, 2024, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Selection and Retention / Engagement: Values and Committed Action
Session 8 | May 23rd, 2024, 1 PM—3 PM EST: Clinical Effectiveness / Clinical Flexibility
This training is worth 16 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.