DETAILS
Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $150.00
Location: Virtual
6 CEs credits may be purchased for $25 and is available to Psychologists, Psychologial Examiners, Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists in Arkansas. If joining us from out of state, please check with your licensing board to ensure that CEs will be accepted.
GetTherapy has been approved by NBCC as a Continuing Education Provider, ACEP no. 7017. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. GetTherapy is solely responsible for all aspects of programs.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a transdiagnostic behavior change model grounded in mindfulness, self-compassion, and values-based action. Clients learn to encounter thoughts and feelings in a mindful way, neither dwelling on them nor pushing them away. At the same time they are encouraged to act on their most deeply held values.
ACT has been shown to be efficacious for a wide variety of problems, including depression, anxiety, OCD, psychosis, substance abuse, chronic pain, dealing with cancer, stress and stigma.
What to expect
In this highly interactive online workshop, mental health professionals will be introduced to psychological flexibility intellectually and experientially. You will learn what it's like in practice, to open up to thoughts and feelings without getting entangled in them, idenfity what truly matters to you, and take meaningful action.
Training modalities will include brief lecture,
clinical vignettes, clinical demonstrations, mindfulness exercises, experiential exercises, large and small group discussion and small groups skills practice.
This won't be your typical slog of slides as you sit for hours with glazed eyes looking at a screen. You'll have lots of opportunities to watch ACT demonstrations, practice ACT with yourself, and discuss concepts with the group.
At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:
1) Define psychological flexibility and identify its six components: acceptance, defusion, present moment, self as context, values, and committed action.
2) Identify three strategies for facilitating acceptance, defusion, and present moment awareness with clients.
3) Identify three strategies for facilitating values work and committed action with clients.
Meet the presenter
Matt Boone, LCSW
Matt Boone is a social worker, psychotherapist and speaker who specializes in translating mental health concepts for the general public. He is the Director of Programming and Outreach at the student mental health services of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he's an instructor in psychiatry. He is an Association of Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS) peer-reviewed acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainer and former consultant for the US Department of Veterans Affairs ACT for Depression roll out. He lives in Little Rock with his wife, cat, and guitars, and he loves talking aboutmental health with people who think psychotherapy and self-help are a little bit cringy.
Matt also sits on the Board for Compassion Works for All, a Non profit organization that offers healing and hope through compassionate actions, advocacy, and teaching for the disenfranchised, marginalized and all those affected by America's prison system. To learn more about CWFA please visit their website at: www.compassionworksforall.org
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