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ACT Made Easy: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression, Anxiety, Trauma and Personality Disorders
- Faculty:
- Daniel J. Moran, PhD, BCBA-D
- Duration:
- 5 Hours 52 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jan 12, 2016
- Product Code:
- POS047880
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
- Access:
- Never expires.
Description
- Integrate ACT techniques and skills into your current practice
- Simplify and implement ACT concepts
- Case examples, video clips and role-play
Integrating Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into your practice offers a new way for you to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.
Join experienced ACT presenter Daniel J. Moran, Ph.D., BCBA-D, as he delivers an exercise and technique-heavy course that will give you the tools needed to more effectively treat clients with depression, anxiety, trauma, and the personality disorders.
Dr. Moran will teach you the main concepts of ACT, including mindfulness, acceptance, and defusion--demonstrating how these create greater psychological flexibility. Discover a variety of techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories. You will learn how to effectively use metaphors, custom techniques and experiential exercises to help your clients identify their values and translate them into behavior goals.
Through case examples, video clips, and role-play you will be able to integrate ACT techniques and skills in your practice tomorrow!
Credits
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webcast Manual (1.99 MB) | 33 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Daniel J. Moran, PhD, BCBA-D Related seminars and products
Daniel J. Moran, PhD, BCBA-D, is an associate professor in the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology with Health Emphasis program at Touro University. He has dedicated his career to reducing suffering and enhancing quality of life.
Dr. Moran is also a past president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), the international organization for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with over 8,000 members worldwide. He co-authored the first case conceptualization manual for ACT, ACT in Practice (New Harbinger), and served on the inaugural ACT training committee. He has authored several other books on ACT, including Finding Your Why and Finding Your Way.
As a recognized ACT trainer within the ACBS community, Dr. Moran is known for his engaging training style and has been an invited keynote speaker at numerous events over the past decade. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Network, The Discovery Channel TLC, and Animal Planet to discuss treatment approaches for various clinical disorders. His scholarly work includes articles and book chapters coauthored with CBT pioneer Albert Ellis and ACT founder Steven Hayes.
Since 2017, Dr. Moran has provided telepsychology services and founded Optimize Psychological Health, a teleclinic where he continues to supervise clinicians and provide direct client care. Passionate about applying ACT beyond clinical settings, he established Pickslyde Consulting to bring mindfulness and values-based commitment skills to workplaces – improving leadership, innovation, and safety.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daniel Moran is the founder, president & CEO of Pickslyde Consulting, Optimize Psychological Health, and the founder of bcbasupervison.com. He has employment relationships with Touro University and FoxyLearning.com. Dr. Moran receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Daniel Moran is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences, the International OCD Foundation, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavior Analysis International, the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies, and the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers and other Mental Health ProfessionalsOutline
ACT in a Nutshell
- The role of values: mindfulness, acceptance, commitment, behavior
- Experiential avoidance
- Existential behaviorism
- Psychological flexibility
- ACT for anxiety, depression, trauma and personality disorders
- Disorder-specific strategies
- Common treatment elements
- Metaphors, paradox and experiential exercises
Role of Exposure in ACT
- Translate client values into behavioral goals
- Barriers to behavioral goals: external and internal avoidance
- External Exposure
- Situations
- People
- Internal Exposure
- Thoughts
- Emotions
- Memories
- Bodily sensations
ACT in Action
- Anxiety
- Client avoidance strategies (including rumination)
- Clean vs. dirty anxiety
- Attack reason giving
- Anxiety detector exercise
- Turn up the willingness knob
- Mountain of food metaphor
- Passengers on the bus metaphor
- And vs. but
- Trauma
- Function of trauma symptoms
- Specify treatment goals
- Target self-harm behaviors
- Increase psychological safety
- Tin can monster exercise
- Mindfulness exercises
- Depression
- Role of avoidance in depression
- Target suicidality
- Evaluation vs. description exercise
- Buy thoughts and defuse language
- Observing self-exercise
- Personality Disorders
- Increase emotional tolerance
- Values clarification
- Mind vs. experience
- Man in the Hole analogy
- Target the client’s story
- Work with client anger
- Role of therapist self-disclosure
- Chessboard metaphor
Objectives
- Appraise ACT concepts such as experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion in session.
- Assess client’s fusion with thoughts about the past or future and illustrate mindfulness exercises to clients in a clinical setting.
- Evaluate the role of psychological flexibility in ACT and devise interventions for increasing it to improve treatment outcomes.
- Construct emotional and behavioral willingness exercises to address experiential avoidance.
- Analyze the efficacy of exercises in values clarification as it relates to treatment outcomes.
- Integrate the ACT approach into treatment to address clinically-relevant issues for specific disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and personality disorders.
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