Praxis Continuing Education and Training
In Joint Sponsorship with Contextual Change, LLC

ACT in Practice with Steven C. Hayes, PhD

23.5 CE credits available
Please read the complete course information below prior to registering.
Target Audience:

This course is for mental health professionals and students with an intermediate-advanced background in this area. This includes counselors, psychologists, social workers, behavior analysts, nurses and physicians, and anyone looking to learn ACT to use with clients. It’s relevant to those with introductory ACT experience, and those who’ve been using ACT for years as they can learn something new with regards to using ACT as a process-based therapy with their clients.

Schedule:

1. Preliminary Network (121 Min)
2. Functional Analysis (141 Min)
3. Treatment Planning (122 Min)
4. Acceptance and Defusion (120 Min)
5. Present Moment and Self-as-context (121 Min)
6. Values and Committed Action (139 Min)
7. Hexadancing (102 Min)
8. Practicing Reads Skills (125 Min)
9. Reads Skills Test (118 Min)
10. Assessing ACT Interventions (190 Min)
11. Webinars (120 Min)

Overall Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Make an ACT process-based diagnosis (functional analysis) and treatment plan
  2. Create a preliminary network diagram for a client from their case description
  3. Identify key ACT assessment measures
  4. Assess the psychological flexibility of a client in session 
  5. Explain the Extended Evolutionary Meta Model  
  6. Use the Extended Evolutionary Meta Model to discuss clients’ psychological dimensions in light of evolutionary thinking and in relation to biophysiological and social factors
  7. Create a functional analysis diagram from a client’s case description 
  8. Review three different approaches to creative hopelessness, based on the left, center, and right pillars of the ACT psychological flexibility model
  9. Make a preliminary treatment diagram from a case description
  10. Identify left-, center- and right-pillar psychological flexibility reads and interventions, in ACT role plays and real plays
  11. Determine appropriate ACT responses to challenging statements from clients in sessions 
  12. Describe the process of hexadancing and explain why this can be a useful approach to using ACT
  13. Differentiate between ACT-appropriate and ACT-inappropriate interventions in session
  14. Identify different ways of integrating ACT with other important evidence-based models and methods
  15. Discuss how to conduct teletherapy sessions following world-wide best practices
Grievance Procedures for CE Activities

Should a participant in the course be unsatisfied with the course, the participant should immediately contact our customer support team to file a grievance  Within five days, a customer support team member will contact the participant by email and/or phone and attempt to resolve the issue.

We will investigate and assess the issue from the perspective of the participant and every effort will be made to resolve the issue.  If the issue is not resolved to the satisfaction of the participant, the participant will be offered a refund per the Refund and Cancellation Policy guidelines.

To file a grievance, please contact us at [email protected].

ADA Accommodations

To request accommodations for disabilities, please contact the ACT Courses team at [email protected].

Contact Information:

The ACT Courses team can be contacted at [email protected].

CE Information:

This professional continuing education non-live internet activity was sponsored by Praxis Continuing Education and co-sponsored by Contextual Change, LLC. Praxis Continuing Education and Training, who has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the organizations listed below, maintains responsibility for the educational activity offered and for following the standards and regulations for the organizations listed below. This non-live internet activity is approved for 23.5 CE Hours by the organizations listed below. Praxis CET maintains responsibility for the program with the CE approvals outlined below.

Joint Accreditation: In support of improving patient care, Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 23.5 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Nursing: Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. designates this activity for a maximum of 23.5 ANCC contact hours. 

Physicians: Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 23.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychologists: Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 23.5 clinical continuing education credits.

NY Counselors: Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0198.

NY Social Workers: Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0467.

NY Psychologists: Praxis Continuing Education and Training, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0002.

Behavior Analysts: Praxis Continuing Education and Training is an approved BACB ACE Provider # OP-17-2718.

NOTE: Many state boards accept offerings accredited by national or other state organizations. If your state is not listed, please check with your professional licensing board to determine whether the accreditations listed are accepted.

CE Course Launch Date: 6/28/2024

Expiration Date/Next scheduled review date: 6/27/2027

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

Praxis Continuing Education and Training is responsible for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of all CE activities certified for credit. When an educational activity is offered for medical (CME), Nursing (ANCC) and/or Psychology (APA) continuing education credit, participants must be informed as to the source, amount, nature, and disposition of any funding used to support the activity, whether in the form of educational grants, cash contributions, or in-kind contributions.  Individuals in a position to influence course content must also disclose whether they have one or more relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

We define ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. There is no minimum financial threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies. We ask that discloses are made regardless of whether the individual views the financial relationships as relevant to the education. For more information on the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, please visit accme.org/standards.

All those in a position to control the content of an education activity are asked to disclose any relevant financial relationships they have with any ineligible companies. 

There is no commercial support for this activity.

None of the planners or presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

How to Obtain Your CE Certificate:

After completing the course, please follow these steps to access your course evaluation and CE certificate through our online portal. To receive credit, you must attend the course in full, pass the post-tests with a score of 80% or higher, and complete the course evaluation. No partial credit will be awarded. Please read through all of the instructions below before proceeding. 

  1. In your internet browser, go to the Resources module at the end of the course and click on Get Your CEs. From there, click on the Evaluation link. Here you'll see all of your test scores. Click on the "Start Evaluation" button and complete the course evaluation.
  2. Once you've completed and submitted the evaluation, click on the My Account page and enter your License Number in the field labeled License Number.
  3. Then visit the My Certificates page and click on the Certificate for the course.
  4. When the certificate appears, click save to download as a PDF.

We encourage members to complete the post-tests and evaluation within 6 months of course completion to earn their CE certificate.

Important Items to Note

How to Change Your Name or License Number on the Certificate

The information shown at the top of your account page will be the name printed on your certificate. To change your name or license number, click "My Account" on the top menu and enter it as you wish it to appear on your certificate.

How to Return to the Online Portal 

If you don’t have time to complete the post-workshop requirements now, you may return at a later time.

Technical Questions?

For further assistance with accessing your account, contact us at [email protected].

Technical Requirements:

In order to complete this course, attendees will need: 

  • A computer with a monitor, keyboard, and a mouse or a mobile device/tablet
  • Speakers/headphones: either built‐in to your computer/device or external (plugged into your computer)
  • An internet connection, either wired or wireless. A minimum connection speed of 3 megabits is required to stream clear, standard definition video.
  • The course is supported on most up to date internet browsers (Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer 11, Brave, etc.)
  • A PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • An email address
  • Access to a printer (to print PDFs of exercises)
  • Access to Google Docs or a Word Processor
  • Access to free diagram drawing software at drawio.com, or another diagram-drawing software, or pen and paper.
References:

A complete list of course references can be found here, but here is a selection of current references that provide a summary of the evidence base for this course.

Thompson, M., Bond, F. W. & Lloyd, J. (2019). “Preliminary psychometric properties of the Everyday Psychological Inflexibility Checklist.” Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 12, 243–252. Doi: 10.1016/j.jcbs.2018.08.004.

Clarissa W. Ong, C. W., Lee, E. B., Levin, M. E., & Twohig, M. P. (2019). “A review of AAQ variants and other context-specific measures of psychological flexibility.” Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 12, 329–346. Doi: 10.1016/j.jcbs.2019.02.007.

Boyle, E. A., Li, Y. I., & Pritchard, J. K. (2017). “An expanded view of complex traits: From polygenic to omnigenic.” Cell, 169(7), 1177–1186. Doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.038.

Olfson, M., & Marcus, S. C. (2010). “National trends in outpatient psychotherapy.” American Journal of Psychiatry, 167(12), 1456–1463. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.10040570

Molenaar, P. C. M. & Campbell, C. G. (2009). “The new person-specific paradigm in psychology.” Current Directions in Psychology, 18, 112–117.

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