Michael C. May - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) Proficiency Course: Master the Core Components & Skills of ACT Across Diagnoses

This Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Proficiency Course recording is essential for any clinician with a difficult-to-treat client on their caseload...

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Faculty:: Michael C. May
Duration:: 6 Hours 21 Minutes
Format:: Audio and Video
Copyright:: Dec 11, 2019

Description

This Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Proficiency Course recording is essential for any clinician with a difficult-to-treat client on their caseload!

ACT has long been established as effective in treating clients with a variety of clinical diagnoses.

Now, you can master the core competencies and skills used by ACT clinicians!

Watch ACT expert and clinician, Michael C. May, MA, LCPC, and he’ll walk you step-by-step through using the six core processes of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in session. For each of the six components, you’ll learn interventions and strategies that you can use in your practice immediately.

You’ll have plenty of opportunities for practice through in-depth case studies and targeted experiential exercises - allowing you to really hone your skills.

Clinicians new to ACT will find this course transparent and easy to understand, while experienced ACT clinicians will discover new, in-depth insights that will solidify comprehension of ACT concepts and expand your repertoire of ACT interventions.

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	Manual - ACT Proficiency Course (4.8 MB)	27 Pages	Available after Purchase

Outline

ACT Foundations: What You Need to Know

Context: Why it is Fundamental to ACT
How to determine the functional purpose of behavior
What is language: Relational Frame Theory
The source of psychological suffering
The ACT model of psychopathology
Experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion & the toxic cycle
Psychological Flexibility: What it is & why it’s important
The Inflexahex diagnostic model
Limitations of the research & potential risks

THE CORE CONCEPTS OF ACT

Acceptance: Combat Experiential Avoidance

What is “acceptance” in ACT?
Experiential avoidance: The “Control Agenda”
Client control over unwanted thoughts & feelings
How to confront the control agenda
Interventions for fostering acceptance
Acceptance Exercises: The “Unwanted Party Guest;” “Barriers to Writing”

Defusion: Break Down Thoughts as Barriers

The problem with cognitive fusion
Weaken unworkable language functions
Should thoughts always control behavior?
Build an environment of defusion within session
Strategies for building defusion skills
Defusion Exercise: “Having vs Believing” our thoughts

Self-As-Context: Aid Clients in Distancing Themselves from Their Thoughts

What is self-as-context?
Self-as-content vs. self-as-context
Mitigate attachment to the conceptualized self
Help clients understand self-as-context
Interventions to foster self-as-context
Self-As-Context Exercise: The “observer self”

Contact with the Present Moment: Mindfulness Strategies to Reduce Worry about the Past & Future

Mindfulness: A core feature of all human psychopathology
What “mindfulness” means in ACT
The goal of mindfulness practice in ACT
How to train mindfulness with flexibility
Overcome obstacles in teaching mindfulness
Address relaxation-induced panic
Formal & informal mindfulness interventions
Contact with the Present Moment Exercise: Mindfulness without Meditation

Values: Guide Clients in Identifying & Clarifying What Matters

The importance of values in ACT
How values can be transformative in human behavior
Values & goals
How to evoke values from clients
From instant gratification to pursuit of values
Values Clarification Exercise: The Eulogy

Committed Action: Establish Values-Consistent Patterns of Behavior

The relationship between values & committed action
What’s considered committed action?
Address persistent inaction, impulsivity or avoidance
Interventions
- Exposure-based approaches
- Behavioral activation strategies
- Social-skills training interventions
- Problem-solving barriers to committed action
- Behavioral homework
Case Study: Engaging in committed action with depression

ACT in Action: Utilize ACT with Specific Clinical Populations

PTSD
Anxiety
Personality disorders
Depression

Faculty

Michael C. May, MA, LCPC Related seminars and products: 3

Compassionate Psychological Care, LLP

Michael C. May, MA, LCPC is a psychotherapist in private practice and an ACT Trainer. He is a founding partner of Compassionate Psychological Care, LLP, a clinic that provides a wide-range of psychological services with offices in Chicago and Highland Park, IL. Within his private practice, his clinical work is focused on anxiety-related presenting concerns, primarily Panic Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Michael is also co-founder of Enriched Couples LLC, a company focused on utilizing applied behavioral science in conjunction with financial literacy training to aid young couples in undermining toxic experiential avoidance and building vital and valued relationships.

Michael has received advanced training in various contextual behavioral approaches to psychotherapy including Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and regularly provides workshops and professional trainings on Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. Michael is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the State of Illinois. He is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and the Association for Behavior Analysis International.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Michael May maintains a private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Michael May has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.