What You’ll Discover in Michael C. May 2-Day Advanced Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Your Essential Guide to Clinical Application & Integration of ACT Across Diagnoses
- Faculty:
- Michael C. May
- Duration:
- 12 Hours 56 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- May 05, 2020
Description
This is the ultimate guide to Actually using ACT Discuss your ideas with clients.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACTIt has been long established that ) is effective in treating clients suffering from a variety of conditions. of Clinical diagnosis
It is worth learning more about these six core processes of ACT These concepts can be applied in session, but they are very different.
Get this for two-Day experiential ACT Training course recording and instead of Learn the fundamentals again ACT processes, you’ll leave able to Use skillfully ACT to Treat your clients.
ACT Expert and Clinician Michael C. May, MA LCPC will teach you how to Avoid common problems that clinicians may encounter when using ACT, and he’ll address the most frequently asked questions he receives from other clinicians about implementing ACT In session.
You’ll hone your skills and finish this program able to:
- Use ACT to Treat your clients with respect of Diagnostics
- Seamlessly integrate ACT With other modalities
- Troubleshoot & resolve in-Session issues
- Design your own ACT metaphors & exercises to You can personalize your treatment
- Boost client engagement & reduce resistance
FREE Materials For Your Clinical Toolbox!
- Psychological flexibility assessment
- Go-to defusion exercises handout
- Case conceptualization form
- ”Undermine the Control Agenda” worksheet
Handouts
| Manual – 2.-Day Advanced Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) (11.6 MB) | 67 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
THE ACT MODEL: A BRIEF REVIEW
- Functional contextualism
- Hexaflex & Inflexahex
- Relational Frame Theory, (RFT)
- Empirical support ACT
- Limitations of The research and potential risks
1. “How would I use ACT for…?”
- Convert the DSM® into psychological inflexibility
- Differentiate topography and function of Behavior
- Attend to The ABCs of Behavior
- The toxic twins are Fusion & Avoidance.
- Which ACT What process do you want to achieve in your session?
- Demonstrations & Exercises
- Mindfulness as functional analysis
- Video demo: PTSD
- Skills Training: Spot experiential avoidance
2: “Does ACT have any metaphors or exercises for…?”
- How metaphors work in ACT
- Experiential learning vs. psychoeducation
- Key components of ACT The metaphor
- Your own metaphors
- Exercises and demonstrations
- Exercise: Challenge the control agenda
- Exercise: Use of embodied metaphors
- Exercise: Flexible perspective-Take
- Video Demonstration – MDD
- Skills Training ACT Tool-Box
3: “Can I use ACT with CBT?”
- Cognitive restructuring vs. defusion
- How to Restructuring and defusion can be done together
- Your client will benefit from experiential learning
- Recognize the rule-Controlled behavior
- Be a role model for values-based behavior
- Pick go-to defusion exercises & metaphors
- Exercises and demonstrations
- Exercise: How can your words inspire clients
- Exercise: Wrestling with thoughts vs. having a conversation
- Video Demonstration: OCD
- Skills Training – Recognizing cognitive fusion
4. “Can I integrate ACT with other modalities?”
- Exposure Therapy
- Is it a good idea to use the SUDs Scale?
- Alternatives to Scale for SUDS
- Integrate ACT Trauma exposure
- Blend distress tolerance and exposure
- Behavioral activation
- Be a behavioral activator
- Utilize values to Inform activity scheduling
- Use defusion to Motivation problems can be destabilizing
- Acceptance to It can cause emotional dissonance
- Other approaches
- Skills training to combat social anxiety
- Compulsive behaviors can be reversed by habit reversal training
- Contingency management for substance abuse
- Demonstrations and Exercises
- Video Demonstration: Panic disorder
- Skills Training ACT into your practice
5. “The client’s progress has stopped. What should I do?”
- Spot avoidance in your responses
- Submining the “only one right way” Agenda
- The clinical “crisis of the week”
- Exercises
- Practice: Recognize your aversive behavior and take control
- Exercise: “Nothing is working”
6: “How can ACT increase client engagement & reduce resistance?”
- Model ACT Client processes
- Utilize ACT to boost engagement
- Acceptance of the client’s truth as it is
- A relationship should not be based on fear.-Hierarchical
- Acceptance & defusion to Address resistance
- When you shouldn’t try to Your client will be convinced
Faculty
Michael C. May, MA, LCPC Related products and seminars: 3
Compassionate psychological care, LLP
Michael C. May, MA, LCPC I am a private psychotherapist and an anaesthesiologist. ACT Trainer. He is a founding partner of Compassionate Psychology Care, LLP is a clinic which provides a broad range of psychological care.-Range of With offices in Chicago, Highland Park, IL, we offer psychological services. His private practice focuses on anxiety.-Related presenting concerns include Panic Disorder and Obsessive Disorder.-Compulsive Disorder. Michael It also co-Founding founder of Enriched Couples LLC focuses on financial literacy and applied behavior science. to Assist young couples in overcoming toxic experiences avoidance and building valuable and lasting relationships.
Michael Has received advanced training in various context-based behavioral approaches to Psychotherapy also includes Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) regularly offers workshops and professional trainings. Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. Michael Is a Licensed Clinical The State has a Professional Counselor of Illinois. He is a member of The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science International and the Association for Behavior Analysis International.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Michael May He maintains a private practice. PESI, Inc. provides him with a speaking honorarium.
Non-financial: Michael May Has no pertinent non-Financial relationship Online viewing and digital downloadingto disclose.
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