Introduction to ACT Workshop for Postgraduate Students, Melbourne
This workshop is intended to introduce postgraduate psychology students to an innovative and effective form of cognitive-behaviour therapy applicable to many clinical problems.
What is ACT?
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (pronounced “act” for short) is an approach to psychological therapy defined in terms of theoretical processes that successfully describe problem formation and resolution. ACT utilises experiential exercises, mindfulness and metaphors to help clients to:
- Experience their struggles in a way that allows for decisive action
- Contact their present moment experience willingly and without defense
- Confront and defuse rigidly held beliefs about the self
- Experience aversive thoughts and feelings that they have previously avoided
- Discover or reconnect with their deepest values to set a direction for change and to motivate change.
Who should attend?
This workshop is only open to postgraduate psychology students, preferably with experience of at least one clinical placement or practicum. Open-mindedness and willingness to take part in experiential exercises will maximise learning benefits.
What will the workshop involve? What are the learning objectives?
This workshop will involve both didactic and experiential components with an emphasis on the latter. Experiential activities you will be invited to take part in will include mindfulness processes, observation and reflection with other participants, role-plays of both clinical and personal relevance and small-group or partnered discussion. In this workshop you will learn to:
- Understand the theory supporting ACT and how this has led to the development of unique intervention processes
- Describe the empirical support for ACT interventions and understand why they work successfully across diagnostic categories
- Conduct a case formulation using the ACT model
- Effectively implement basic ACT interventions
- Utilise ACT techniques for your own personal growth
About Julian McNally
Julian McNally is a counselling psychologist in private practice and a senior counselor at RMIT University. He has fifteen years experience in counselling having worked in prison, community and educational settings in roles that included assessment, individual and group interventions, therapist training, clinical supervision and program development and evaluation. He has completed ACT training with Robyn Walser, Russ Harris, Kirk Strosahl and Kelly Wilson among others. Julian currently convenes the Melbourne ACT Peer Supervision Group and also supervises individual therapists in their development as ACT practitioners. Julian can be contacted on 0425 823 173 or at act@julianmcnally.com if you have any questions.
Registration: The registration fee for this workshop is $30.00 (inc. GST). To book your place, complete and mail the attached form or complete the online form at www.julianmcnally.com. Payment details will be emailed to students. Note: There will be no facility for registering on the day. Places in the workshop are limited.
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