Understanding and Application of ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Understanding and Application of ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

This online CPD event is quality assured by the National Counselling Society and includes issue of a CPD Certificate for six hours CPD

This course is Quality Checked by the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). This course alone is not a route to the Accredited Register, nor does it fully equip a graduate to practice as a qualified counsellor or refer to themselves as ‘a specialist’ in the subject matter unless they have other qualifications/training to support this.

This workshop looks at the core theory and application of one of the third wave CBT models which has been shown to be highly effective in a range of therapeutic interventions. Originally developed in the late 1980’s by Steven Hayes and colleagues Acceptance and Commitment therapy has since developed into a broad therapeutic treatment with a range of effective and versatile techniques to help clients across a range of mental health issues.

We will look at the core principles which underpin ACT together with a range of techniques which can be applied in therapy regardless of your particular core modality.

This workshop is an NCPS Quality Checked CPD event.

Key subject areas

• To look at the origins of third wave CBT.
• To develop understanding of the core traditions and history of ACT.
• To define and explain the concepts of Relational Frame theory and Creative Hopelessness two core underlying principles of ACT.
• Understand the Hexaflex model and six core processes of ACT. 
• To develop understanding and apply a range of ACT techniques and metaphors to clinical practice.