Fw: Live Video Webcast Presented by Robyn Walser, Ph.D. - Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

[Guest guest]

Thought I would send this to the listserve as it explains a little about

acceptance and commitment therapy.  Also, in case anyone has or is an

interested therapist.  I don't know much about ACT, but several people

mentioned that it is being used in some OCD patients.

(mom w/OCD, 10 yo dd w/OCD)

Subject: Live Video Webcast Presented by Robyn Walser, Ph.D. - Using Acceptance

& Commitment Therapy

To: kusminfam@...

Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 6:20 PM

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Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life:

Using Acceptance & Commitment Therapy

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Live Video Webcast Thursday, July 29, 2010

Featuring: Expert, Trainer & Speaker

Robyn Walser, Ph.D.

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C. , Ph.D. once wrote, “The single most remarkable fact of human

existence is how hard it is for human beings to be happy.†Suffering is

ubiquitous and can prevent people from living their lives in meaningful and even

expansive ways. Many current psychotherapies work directly to change problematic

thoughts and feelings associated with these negative life events.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a new model of behavioral treatment

that emphasizes acceptance of emotion and thought while maintaining a focus on

positive behavior change that is meaningful and consistent with personal values.

ACT uses a variety of verbal, experiential and homework techniques to help

clients make experiential contact with previously avoided thoughts, feelings,

and sensations, without excessive verbal involvement and control—and to make

powerful life enhancing choices.

The seminar will discuss and demonstrate ACT techniques that may be broadly

useful for intervening with multi-problem clients dealing with issues such as

anxiety, substance abuse, depression, PTSD and human struggle. The seminar will

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Outline

Part I: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Theory and Concepts

Human Language, experiential avoidance and its role in psychopathology

Dominance of the conceptualized past and future

Cognitive fusion and avoidance of self

The problems of attachment

Lack of values clarity and inaction

Our minds do not know what is good for us: F.E.A.R.

Fusion: holding thoughts as literal

Evaluation: putting it in the evaluated

Avoidance: learned behaviors and social constructions

Reason-giving: believing our stories for why we do what we do

The problem of more, better and different

The paradox of what client’s are seeking

Feeling better versus feeling better

Acceptance and Commitment as an alternative to control

Part II: Application of ACT Treatment

The 6 core components of ACT for psychological and behavioral flexibility

Acceptance

Letting go of the agenda of control

Willingness to experience

Willingness as a choice, not a desire

Present Moment

Discovering “NOWâ€

Mindfulness: Processes of observation

Relationship and being in the moment

Defusion

Fusion: getting caught in “Mindâ€

Defusing: responding to thoughts and emotions in terms of workability

Self-as-Context

Using present moment awareness to build self-as-context

Distinguishing experiential content from context

Contacting the continuous sense of self

Values

Defining personal values that give meaning to life

Choice versus decision and process versus outcome

Linking behavior change to chosen values

Committed Action

Daily goals and facing barriers

Acceptance of additional barriers as a consequence of committed action

Living a more rewarding, full and vital life

Objectives

Describe the psychopathological impact of experiential avoidance.

Explain how human language participates in suffering and affects our

relationship with private internal experiences.

Describe direct treatment implications related to experiential avoidance and

non-acceptance.

Describe the major steps in ACT.

Explain how values homework is used to support behavior change.

Speaker:

Robyn Walser, Ph.D. is Director of TL Consultation Services and works at the

National Center for PTSD. As a licensed psychologist, she maintains an

international training, consulting and therapy practice. Dr. Walser is an expert

in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), traumatic stress and substance abuse

and has authored a number of articles, chapters and books on these topics. She

has been doing ACT workshops for 10 years; training in multiple formats and for

multiple client problems. Dr. Walser has been described as a “passionate,

creative and bold ACT trainer and therapist,†and she is best known for her

dynamic, warm and challenging ACT trainings. She is often referred to as a

clinician’s clinician. Her workshops feature a combination of lecture and

experiential exercises designed to provide a unique learning opportunity in this

state-of-the-art intervention.

Dr. Walser has presented her research findings and papers at international and

national conferences, universities and hospital settings; and she has been

invited to international conferences to speak about ACT. She is invested in

developing innovative ways to translate science-into-practice and continues to

do research and education on dissemination of ACT and other therapies. She has

had a number of leadership roles in international and national organizations and

she is currently Member At Large for the Association for Contextual and

Behavioral Science, the main association that houses ACT.

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