Growing as a practitioner is not an automatic process.

Counter to what one might expect, studies have shown that practitioner experience and time in the field alone do not determine better client outcomes.

Real, meaningful growth is about more than just learning new theories and interventions. It requires adapting in response to what you’ve learned through regular feedback.

A chef, for instance, may spend years learning and practicing their craft. But if they never taste their food or hear reactions from diners, they will never improve.

For mental health practitioners, the same principle applies:

While it is very important to expand the clinical “toolkit” through training on skills and theory, it’s also important to learn how to integrate feedback in a functional way so that you can continuously adapt and improve.

This course is built with just that sort of training in mind.

Designed for practitioners who utilize acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in their practice, this live online course aims to deepen, broaden, and sharpen your clinical skills in ACT.

Peer-reviewed trainer and ACT expert Lou Lasprugato will facilitate a collaborative and supportive training forum that focuses on self-assessment, deliberate practice, and functional feedback.

Through in-depth instruction, you’ll work with process-based functional analysis and contextual behavioral interventions that shape psychological flexibility while incorporating principles from functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP), clinically-applied relational frame theory (RFT), and evolutionary science to enhance your clinical repertoire.

You’ll learn to gauge your clinical development with the ACT-FM (Fidelity Measure), which assesses competency in four key clinical domains: therapeutic stance, openness, awareness, and engagement.

Each session will include experiential breakouts guided by both an overarching objective and your own desired targets for improvement. You’ll have ample opportunities (multiple exemplars) to learn through observation, practice, and feedback in a reinforcing, team-based environment that explores the effectiveness of interventions as well as missed opportunities.

You’ll also learn practical methods for utilizing both observed and direct feedback from clients, equipping you to constantly improve within your own practice.

Through eight interactive sessions you will:

• Become more adept at detecting subtle shifts in behavior under aversive (inflexible) versus appetitive (flexible) control.

• Utilize on-the-fly functional assessment across six psychological dimensions to more precisely target processes in-the-moment.

• Practice shaping psychological flexibility through modeling, evoking, and reinforcing behavior.

• Gauge your clinical development and effectiveness with the ACT-FM (Fidelity Measure).

• Identify personal consistencies and inconsistencies so you can focus on improving the specific skills most relevant to you.

• Broaden and enhance your ACT repertoire with key evolutionary processes.

Join us to learn how a feedback-enhanced approach can help you confidently take on the most challenging aspects of your ACT work, and cultivate meaningful, ongoing growth in your practice.

This training is worth 16 CE credit hours if attended live. While we can only provide CE to those who are present – i.e. logged in – for all live presentation(s), Praxis webinars are recorded for later viewing. Registrants may then access these recordings at any time for up to nine months from the conclusion of the training to which they pertain.