ACT With Anxiety
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is part of a movement in clinical psychological science that sees acceptance and openness to experience as an essential addition to change-focused treatment strategies. Although consciously based on behaviour-analytic thinking and research, ACT is a hybrid therapy in terms of approach and technique, bringing together aspects of mindfulness, Gestalt therapy, and humanist-existential thought. The paradox upon which ACT is founded is that radical acceptance of what cannot be changed empowers us to recognize and change the things that we can. The ACT approach is about embracing necessary suffering in order to make more committed, life-affirming choices and live in accordance with deeply held personal values.
The Presenter
Martin Brock has 30 years clinical Experience in the NHS and is a Principle Adult Psychotherapist within Nottinghamshire Trust Services. He has a lead Role for Developing Mindfulness – Based Treatment Approaches within Trust Psychological Services and has extensive experience of teaching, supervising and assessing students within undergraduate provision. His primary clinical interests include working with the highly complex and treatment resistant clinical population utilising acceptance and mindfulness processes. He is currently the Chair of the Training arm of the ACT Special Interest Branch within BABCP.
The Workshop
The format will be based on the published research and subsequent books authored by George H Eifert and John P Forsyth that set out an ACT approach to treating anxiety. We will not be focusing on the basic understanding of anxiety itself, rather the application of ACT to Anxiety disorders. This will include:
• Core Treatment Components
• Therapist Skills
• Psycho-education Strategies
• Acceptance and Valued Living as the Alternative
• Value guided Exposure
This workshop will contain significant use of mindfulness and present-moment focused work. Although formal mindfulness meditation practice is not necessarily emphasized in ACT, mindfulness processes are central to the work with Anxiety. These exercises will show how we can bring the values directed, present moment focus directly into clinical interactions.
Who May Attend;
The workshop is designed primarily to train mental health providers and other health care providers who are already familiar with the basic ACT model. The minimum requirement of completing a one day introductory workshop is a prerequisite for attendance at this Workshop.
Time and Date
The workshop will take place on 21st November 2008. Check-in will begin at 9:00 am and the workshop will begin promptly at 9:30 am. The Workshop will finish at 4:30 pm.
Tea and coffee will be provided. Lunch will be NOT be provided and there are a wide range of facilities in the local area.
Venue and Travel Information
The workshop will be held at the
St Mary’s Church & Conference Centre
Bramall Lane
Sheffield
S2 1QZ
ENGLAND
UK
Location Map can be found at http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=st%2Bmary%27s%2Bcommunity%2Bcentre&sll=53.372499,-1.471803&sspn=0.013109,0.036564&ie=UTF8&ll=53.375111,-1.470795&spn=0.013108,0.036564&z=15&iwloc=A
Further Venue Information here if necessary http://www.stmarys-church.co.uk/index.html
Contact
The workshop is being organized by Jo Lloyd, for any further information please contact her on j.lloyd@gold.ac.uk.
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