Intermediate ACT Workshop in Baltimore: ACT for Posttraumatic Problems in Living
Title: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Posttraumatic Problems in Living: An Intermediate Workshop
Presented by: Sonja Batten, Ph.D., & Andrew Santanello, Psy.D.
Dates: April 20 and 21
Description of workshop:
Traumatic experiences can have significant, and long-lasting effects on the individuals who survive them. Frequently, clients who have survived trauma experience a host of behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and physical health problems. When these individuals come to therapy, most of them are hoping that they will be able to eliminate the nightmares, memories, anger, anxiety, and other posttraumatic symptoms that they experience. In fact, most of them have tried many things (such as isolation, substance abuse, even suicide attempts) to manage these symptoms. However, what many of these individuals fail to realize is that their heroic efforts to avoid the pain of their posttraumatic experiences may actually be making things worse, and may even be the heart of the problem. In many ways, despite their best efforts, trauma survivors frequently find themselves trapped in a life that is largely devoted to the avoidance of pain.
Effective empirically supported treatments for posttraumatic symptoms have been developed to aid trauma survivors in improving traditional PTSD symptoms. However, they are not universally effective, and not all clients are willing to engage in exposure based treatment. In addition, given the high levels of psychiatric comorbidity with PTSD, treatments are needed that can cut across diagnostic categories and begin to treat presenting problems based on functional dimensions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a contemporary behavior therapy, provides an alternative to the feel-good agenda and instead focuses on helping our clients to reconnect with those ideals and principles for living that are deeply important to them and that dignify the difficult events that they have survived. This two-day workshop will provide clinicians with the tools to work with trauma survivors on identifying each person's valued life directions and then help motivate behavior change in the service of those values. Structured experiential and written exercises, along with role pays and case material, will be used to demonstrate the process of values assessment and commitment to engage in valued life activities. In addition, attendees will learn how to use exposure and other empirically supported techniques within an ACT framework.
NOTE: You must have previously attended a 2-day experiential workshop with an ACT Trainer in order to be eligible to attend this intermediate workshop. You will be asked to indicate which introductory experiential training you have attended.
Objectives:
Participants will learn to:
* Describe an understanding of posttraumatic problems in living based on a framework of experiential avoidance
* Implement traditional exposure-based interventions as adapted for an acceptance-based model
* Facilitate interventions for clinically relevant anger in trauma survivors
* Promote life changes through experiential exercises designed to help clients move toward their values, rather than away from their pain
Registration Deadline: April 8
Cost:
$250 Professionals
$125 Students (Discounted student registrations at this price will be limited to the first 8 students to register)
To register, please contact JoAnn Clarke:
410-788-1865
joann_cbh@verizon.net
Registration form is available at www.mdcbh.org under the heading for Trainings.
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