Michael C. May – 2-Day Advanced Acceptance & Commitment Therapy: Your Essential Guide to Clinical Application & Integration of ACT Across Diagnoses
Michael C. May – 2-Day Advanced Acceptance & Commitment Therapy: Your Essential Guide to Clinical Application & Integration of ACT Across Diagnoses
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Description
- Faculty:
- Michael C. May
- Duration:
- 12 Hours 56 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- May 05, 2020
Description
Outline
A brief review of the model.
- Functional Contextualism
- Hexaflex & Inflexahex
- Relational Frame Theory (RFT)
- Empirical support for ACT
- Limitations of the research & potential risks
FAQ 1: How would I use…?
- Convert the DSM® into psychological inflexibility
- Differentiate topography & function of behavior
- Attend to the ABCs of behavior
- Spot the toxic twins: Fusion & avoidance
- Which ACT process are you targeting in session?
- Exercises & Demonstrations
- Exercise: Functional analysis as mindfulness
- Video demo: PTSD
- Skills Training: Spot experiential avoidance
FAQ 2 asks, Does ACT have any metaphors or exercises for…?
- How metaphor functions in ACT
- Experiential learning vs. psychoeducation
- Key components of ACT metaphors
- Create your own metaphors
- Exercises & Demonstrations
- Exercise: Confront the control agenda
- Exercise: Use of embodied metaphors
- Exercise: Flexible perspective-taking
- Video Demonstration: MDD
- Skills Training: Create an ACT Tool-Box
FAQ 3 is Can I use ACT with CBT?
- Cognitive restructuring vs. defusion
- How to bring restructuring & defusion together
- Create experiential learning for your client
- Recognize rule-governed behavior
- Foster behaviors that are in line with values
- Pick go-to defusion exercises & metaphors
- Exercises & Demonstrations
- Exercise: What your words evoke for clients
- Exercise: Having vs. wrestling with thoughts
- Video Demonstration: OCD
- Skills Training: Spotting cognitive fusion
FAQ 4: Can I use ACT with other therapies?
- Exposure Therapy
- Should you use the SUDs scale?
- Alternatives to SUDS scale
- Integrate ACT & exposure for trauma
- Merge distress tolerance with exposure
- Behavioral Activation
- Make behavioral activation experiential
- Utilize values to inform activity scheduling
- Use defusion to undermine motivation issues
- Apply acceptance to erode emotional reasoning
- Other Approaches
- Skills training for social anxiety
- Habit reversal training for compulsive behaviors
- Contingency management for substance abuse
- Exercises & Demonstrations
- Video Demonstration: Panic Disorder
- Skills Training: Integrate ACT into your practice
The client’s progress has stopped. What should I do?
- Spot avoidance in your own responses
- Undermine the “only one right way” agenda
- Address the clinical “crisis of the week”
- Exercises
- Exercise: Spot aversive control in your behavior
- Exercise: “Nothing is working”
FAQ 6 discusses how to increase client engagement and reduce resistance.
- Model ACT processes for the client
- Utilize ACT to boost engagement
- Acceptance of the client’s truth as it is
- Create a relationship that is non-hierarchical
- Acceptance & defusion to address resistance
- When you shouldn’t try to persuade your client
Faculty
Michael C. May, MA, LCPC Related seminars and products: 3
Compassionate Psychological Care, LLP
Michael C. May is a LCPC member. He is a therapist in private practice. He is a founding partner of a clinic that provides a wide range of psychological services with offices in Chicago and Highland Park, Illinois. Panic Disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder are some of the anxiety-related presenting concerns that he works on in his private practice. Enriched Couples is a company that uses behavioral science in conjunction with financial literacy training to help young couples build vital and valued relationships.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) are two of the contextual behavioral approaches that Michael has received advanced training in. Michael is a Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois. He is a member of both the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science and the Association for Behavior Analysis International.
Speaker disclosures.
Michael May has a private practice. He is paid by PESI, Inc.
Michael May does not have a relevant non-financial relationship.
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