Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A series with Steven Hayes

Part One: The importance of facing difficulties 

• Learning the theoretical foundations and the key principles of ACT.
• Recognise how the creative despair lays the foundation for effective ACT therapy.
• Understand how to integrate your personal style to the initial stages of ACT therapy.

Part Two: Control and Acceptance 

• Learning to help customers to accepting one's own thoughts and feelingsi, freeing themselves from the need to control or eliminate them.
• Begin to understand the concept of cognitive defusionacquiring new methods to introduce it into customer work.
• Supplementing the therapeutic sessions with ACT exercises to be carried out at eyes closedrecognising its powerful effect on customers.

Part Three: Cognitive defusion

• Understanding in depth the concept of cognitive defusion.
• Identify a number of different techniques for introduce and explain cognitive defusion.
• Recognising the most common trapsi related to cognitive defusion, acquiring new skills for identify them and remedy it.

Part Four: The Therapythe Self and contact with the present moment

• Numerous learning exercises to be performed with eyes closedwhich can be immediately integrated into the therapeutic work.
• Strengthen your safety when using exercises of Therapy during the sessions.
• Understanding how to foster awareness of the Observant self in working with customers.

Part Five: Values and Actions 

• Understand the distinction made by the ACT between values and objectives.
• Understanding the connection between pain and values identified by the ACT.
• Identify strategies to modify some of the ACT techniques to make them more effective in working with the teenagers.

Part Six: Psychological Flexibility

• Learning to adapt the ACT method to the setting and situations typical of the brief therapy.
• Recognise the ways in which the exposure therapy is used within the ACT paradigm, learning to help clients benefit as much as possible.
• Learning strategies to integrate the relational work to the ACT model.