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Saturday, November 01 2008, 9:00am - 4:00pm |
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THE WRIGHT INSTITUTE AND THE ALAMEDA COUNTY PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Using Mindfulness and Values to make Powerful Life Enhancing Changes
By Robyn Walser, Ph.D.
November 1st, 2008, 9AM-4PM
Albany Senior Center
846 Masonic Avenue, Albany, CA 94706
CE Credits: 6 pending MCEP approval
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a new model of behavioral treatment that emphasizes acceptance of emotion and thought while maintaining a focus on positive behavior change that is meaningful and consistent with personal values. ACT uses a variety of verbal, experiential and homework techniques plus mindfulness to help patients make experiential contact with previously avoided private events (thoughts, feelings, sensations), without excessive verbal involvement and control-- and to make powerful life enhancing choices. The workshop will discuss and demonstrate ACT techniques that may be broadly useful for intervening with multi-problem patients dealing with issues such as anxiety, substance abuse, depression, and PTSD and human struggle. The workshop will provide clinicians with a basic understanding of ACT, and with personal experiences that will allow further development of these skills based on their application.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D. is Director of TL Consultation Services and works at the National Center for PTSD. As a licensed psychologist, she maintains an international training, consulting and therapy practice. Dr. Walser is an expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and has co-authored 3 books on ACT including a book on learning ACT. She also has expertise in traumatic stress and substance abuse and has authored a number of articles and chapters and books on these topics. She has been doing ACT workshops since 1998; training in multiple formats and for multiple client problems. Dr. Walser has been described as a "passionate, creative, and bold ACT trainer and therapist" and she is best known for her dynamic, warm and challenging ACT trainings.
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