This brief 1 hour and 45 minute workshop will provide a step-by-step framework for functionally conceptualizing client behavior problems, and will discuss selection and application of specific ACT interventions. The workshop will also help attendees develop their own ACT consistent interventions, exercises, and metaphors.
Attendees will become familiar with the six core ACT principles of defusion, self-as-context, acceptance, values, committed action, and contacting the present moment, and will become able to conceptualize clinically relevant behaviors as functional response classes, and discriminate when they are amenable to an ACT approach.
Attendees will be able to select ACT interventions appropriate for addressing specific core principles and will learn how to apply specific ACT interventions based on the case formulation.
There will be a didactic slide presentationand case-based practice. Participants will be provided with handouts to use with their clients for assessment and homework assignments to augment in session interventions. Worksheets will also be distributed for the participants to use to facilitate ACT case formulation.
This workshop will be presented at the Illinois Psychological Association. You must register for the convention in order to attend. This ACT workshops is will be free for registered attendees.