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• Archive: Faculty:Daniel MoranDuration:5 Hours 57 MinutesFormat:Audio and VideoCopyright:Oct 17, 2019 Description Are your current techniques just not working?You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through.
• You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.Watch ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, in this recording as he delivers an exercise- and intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitive-behavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.By shifting focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.Purchase this recording today, and Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!
• sufferingLanguage as a double-edged swordGoal: Psychological flexibilityLimitations of the research & potential risksComponents of the ACT Model Acceptance: Foster Client Acceptance of Emotions to Increase Values-Based Action What should be accepted?The problem with controlling thoughtsHow to sidestep the happiness trapSpot common phrases of non-acceptanceExperiential avoidanceHow to help clients understand acceptanceExperiential Exercise: The finger trapDefusion: Change the Way Clients Interact with Their Thoughts Relational frame theory & mental healthUndermine unhelpful language processesGive clients skills to notice their thoughtsHow to decrease believability of unhelpful thoughtsExperiential Exercise: Notice the meaning of languageSelf-As-Context: Aid Clients in Establishing Their Identities The three different versions of the selfHow to describe the “observer self” to clientsHow to distance the self from thoughts & emotionsThe chess board metaphorExperiential Exercise: ”I am” exerciseContact with the Present Moment: Strategies to Build Attention to the Here & Now How language affects mindfulnessGoals of mindfulnessThoughtFit exercisesHow do we teach clients to be mindful?How to build focus on valuesObstacles in teaching mindfulnessExperiential Exercise: Mindfulness meditationValues: Aid Clients in Deciding What Gives Live Meaning What are values?How to help clients author their valuesValues vs.
• goalsWhen clients are “stuck”Values assessmentBatteries exerciseEpitaph exerciseCommitted Action: Assist Clients in Behaving in the Service of Chosen Values Persistent inaction, impulsivity or avoidanceAddress rule-governed behaviorExposure & ritual prevention strategiesThe Mindful Action PlanACT in Action PTSD Function of trauma symptomsExperiential avoidance in PTSDIncrease psychological safetyDominating concepts of the past & futureTrauma-informed mindfulness exercisesAnxiety Client avoidance & escape strategiesAssessment toolsAddress reason-giving as a barrierStrategies to increase willingnessAnxiety Detector exerciseDepression Values contradictionHow experiential avoidance impacts depressionFusion to the damaged conceptualized selfBehavioral activation strategiesPersonality Disorders Coping strategiesIncrease emotional toleranceTarget the client’s storyExperiential avoidance from the therapist Faculty Daniel Moran, PhD, BCBA-D Related seminars and products: 7 Daniel J. Moran, PhD, BCBA-D, is the former president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), the international ACT organization with over 8,000 members worldwide.
• He co-authored the first case conceptualization manual for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy entitled ACT in Practice (New Harbinger) and served on the first ACT training committee.