Steven C.Hayes – ACT in practice 2022

The co- founder of the Contextual Behavioral Science movement, Dr. Steven C. Hayes, will help you deepen and empower your work in acceptance and commitment therapy.

A new framework designed to help clinicians bridge the gap between theory and practice is available in this online course. You can watch Dr. Hayes apply this framework in roleplay sessions and real plays. As he builds network diagrams, performs functional analysis, makes reads,nywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanydaynywayanyday

With this insight, you will be able to develop a clear pathway for implementing ACT throughout your therapeutic relationships, and become more effective at cultivating prosperity in the lives of your clients.

Some of the most recent and important developments in evidence-based therapy will be covered in this online training. They are in action. You can use them in your own practice.

ACT in Practice combines video instruction and exercises with some of the most extensive footage available of an expert applying the psychological flexibility model in strategically designed roleplays and real conversations with healthcare professionals working on personal issues.

The course offers both a more advanced experience as well as a practical approach.

subtitle options are available in English and Spanish for all videos.

The sessions were all done via video call. You will get a chance to see how you can fully engage clients using this expanded framework.

You will learn how to gain a deeper understanding of even the most complex cases, make more accurate reads, plan targeted interventions, and apply the Hexaflex model with greater confidence and flexibility.

The course is online and self-paced.

The 10 modules will be released at a rate of one per week so that you can fully absorb the material before moving on.

As your schedule allows, you can work through the modules more slowly. With lifetime access to all course material, you will be able to revisit it anytime in the future, including any future updates that are made to the course.

The first 3 modules introduce you to a framework that will allow you to apply the theory with creativity and confidence.

From the beginning, you will complete exercises to put this framework into practice. You will be able to see how it is applied in three important stages of the client relationship: doing an intake, building a preliminary network diagram, and performing a new form of process-based functional analysis.

In Modules 4 through 6 you will see roleplays with different clients covering work from all corners of the Hexaflex model and you will hear Dr. Hayes explain why he made certain choices at critical moments.

Even with challenging clients, module 7 will focus on how to move to any point on the Hexaflex at any moment and do effective work.

You will hone and test your skills in reading clients’ psychological flexibility, as well as in identifying the processes a therapist is targeting in session, in Modules 8 and 9.

If you improve your ability to discern adequate, good, and excellent ACT interventions, you will be more effective in your own work.

You will benefit from the insight of Dr. Walser and Dr. Wilson in the last two modules. This will allow you to measure your skills more objectively and learn from other world-class practitioners.

• Develop a deeper understanding of your clients from the very first session, so you can plan and implement treatment more effectively with holistic aims in mind
• Access a broad range of exercises, metaphors, and interventions that can help you create experiential learning in sessions rather than resorting to lecturing
• Hone your ability to make accurate reads and identify client strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities for meaningful work
• Always have a full grasp of your client’s entire case and how issues are being retained, so you can move flexibly between processes and maintain a clear sense of direction
• Understand how to use the psychological flexibility model as a framework for incorporating other important processes and interventions in evidence-based therapy

You will have the practical skills and tools to be more effective after completing these 10 modules.

Each module contains a breakdown of the main skills and tools you will learn. Video instruction, written material, footage from example sessions, and practical exercises for applying new concepts are included in each learning unit.

• How a process-based framework offers a better way forward than previous efforts to categorize and treat psychological disorders
• The guideposts you can follow throughout the client relationship to better understand someone’s case, choose interventions, and measure outcomes
• Start building the practical skills needed to visualize a client’s case clearly
• See Dr. Hayes’s thought process as he walks you through creating a preliminary network diagram for Mariana, a roleplay client dealing with a history of abuse and struggling to find joy and connection in life
• Draw your own preliminary network diagram based on a case study of Stan, a father experiencing debilitating anxiety that impacts his relationship with his family

• How process-based functional analysis can help you choose treatment interventions that give you the greatest chance of success
• How to measure a client’s psychological flexibility, your therapeutic alliance with them, and treatment outcomes
• Using an Extended Evolutionary Meta Model to understand clients’ psychology in relation to physiological and social factors
• Watch Dr. Hayes perform functional analysis of Mariana’s case by building on his preliminary network diagram
• Take your preliminary network diagram of Stan’s case to the next stage: creating a functional analysis diagram

• Turning functional analysis into an effective treatment plan that fits with a client’s goals for therapy
• How to disrupt maladaptive behavior patterns within a case and turn them into self-sustaining adaptive loops that will last even after your work with a client ends
• Review an emotional approach to creative hopelessness for Mariana, a strategy that can be used with clients who are resistant to change
• Watch as Dr. Hayes creates a treatment plan diagram for Mariana and shares his thought process
• Based on your functional analysis diagram from Module 2, draw a treatment planning diagram that helps you map out impactful interventions for Stan

• Identify reads and interventions related to emotional and cognitive flexibility (acceptance and defusion)
• How to target these two processes indirectly through other areas of psychological flexibility, and vice versa, opening up more options for meaningful intervention
• Watch a 3-part roleplay with Mariana showing key elements of the treatment plan created in Module 3
• Examples of how to successfully implement defusion and perspective-taking exercises, and how to repurpose pain into values-based action

• Review psychological flexibility reads and interventions related to touching the “now” and sense of self
• How to move these processes indirectly through other corners of the hexagon in order to expand your flexibility during sessions
• View a 3-part roleplay with Sally, a client experiencing depressed mood as she flounders without a sense of purpose in retirement
• See Dr. Hayes taking a psychoeducational approach to creative hopelessness within the roleplay
• Examples of how to successfully implement present moment exercises and the “devil’s advocate” approach to clarifying values

• Identify reads and interventions related to values and committed action
• How interventions in these two areas can impact other core processes that support them, increasing your efficacy with clients
• Watch a 3-part roleplay with Stan, which includes a values approach to creative hopelessness
• See examples of how to successfully implement the “advisor” values exercise and an ACT-based exposure exercise to channel anxious energy into committed action

• How hexadancing works and why it can be a useful approach to implementing ACT
• See hexadancing used effectively in a real play session with a clinician who longs to connect more deeply with his wife and community
• Understand the importance of extending flexibility processes out socially, and see a demonstration of how it’s possible
• How ACT work fits into the larger arc of mindfulness, acceptance-based approaches, and contemplative practice
• Complete 3 exercises in which you’re presented with progressively more challenging statements from clients and must decide on appropriate ACT responses, which you can then compare with Dr. Hayes’s answers and explanations

• Participate in a classic training technique used by the original ACT founders in order to hone your ability to make accurate reads
• Boost your skills so you can quickly read psychological flexibility processes in the moment
• Watch a real play in which Dr. Hayes works with a woman experiencing excessive worry and difficulty staying in the present moment
• Practice reading a client’s psychological flexibility processes based on the real play transcript, and start identifying which processes Dr. Hayes is targeting and how
• Compare your work to Dr. Hayes’s and begin to understand your strengths and weaknesses at reading the psychological flexibility processes
• Learn from Dr. Hayes as he explains what he was observing and thinking during the example session

• Watch a real play in which Dr. Hayes works with a man who feels stuck when it comes to caring for his health
• Assess your skill in reading psychological flexibility processes, as well as discerning which processes Dr. Hayes is targeting, using the real play transcript
• Compare your answers to those of Dr. Hayes and Dr. Robyn Walser, another premier ACT expert, to help you objectively identify areas for improvement
• Learn from Dr. Hayes as he explains what he was observing and thinking during the example session
• Ultimately, become more proficient in making accurate reads so you can apply ACT more confidently and respond flexibly to what comes up in sessions

• View a real play in which Dr. Hayes explores the connection between loss and love with a woman yearning for freer intimacy in her relationships
• Use a therapist rating scale to score interventions within the real play for their efficacy and how well they correspond with ACT principles
• Review written and audio commentary by three of the world’s leading ACT experts — Dr. Hayes, Dr. Robyn Walser, and Dr. Kelly Wilson — explaining why certain choices are (or are not) effective in a given context
• Hone your skill at judging the efficacy of ACT-appropriate moves, so you can finetune your own interventions and make a bigger impact as a practitioner

• ACT Assessment Toolkit – Dr. Hayes’s curated list of the simplest short clinical assessment tools, ready for downloading to use with clients
• Single-item Assessments – A list of single-item measures that you can download as a Google Doc and tailor to create individualized assessment questionnaires for clients
• Targeted Assessment Tools – A range of tools for specific client populations and issues (e.g., cancer, chronic pain, smoking, weight issues), ready for downloading to use with clients
• ACT Rating Scale Training Manual – A guide to using the objective scale for rating therapist efficacy developed by Dr. Robyn Walser and Varvara Mazina

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