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Summer/Fall 2009
Other Workshop
Locations:
Burlington has been
scheduled. Click HERE.
Bar Harbor has
been scheduled. Click HERE.
Suggest another location
Workshops in these locations are
in the planning stages and depend on sufficient interest. If you
would like to encourage workshops in these areas or provide feedback,
this would be welcome. Email to
joel@whitepinepsych.com and
share your thoughts.
About ACT
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a contemporary
form of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) that has shown much promise
in helping clients with a wide range of emotional and behavioral
difficulties. ACT introduces a comprehensive model of therapy including
a creative set of metaphors and experiential exercises to help clients
(a) move away from unworkable change strategies, (b) make healthy
contact with thoughts, feelings, and other private reactions they have
feared and avoided, (c) re-connect with their deepest values to set a
direction for change and to motivate change, and (d) experience their
struggles differently and in a manner that permits them to move forward
with their lives now.
This
Workshop
This one-day training will introduce participants to
this exciting form of therapy. The instructor will describe the ACT
model and explain how it compares to and differs from traditional CBT.
The instructor will give an overview of the rapidly-growing body of
research on ACT and its processes. Attendees will learn to
conceptualize client problems from an ACT perspective and how to apply
basic ACT interventions. Attendees will be invited to participate in a
variety of exercises to help experience ACT processes and to better
understand their clients’ perspectives and struggles. Lastly, attendees
will leave this training with many resources should they wish to further
develop their proficiency with ACT.
Level of Experience
This is an introductory training. No
previous experience with ACT is necessary, though having some
familiarity with the basic concepts may facilitate learning.
Learning Objectives
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Attendees will learn the basic ACT model of
human suffering including the roles of experiential avoidance and
cognitive fusion.
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Attendees will learn the
six ACT core processes.
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Attendees will learn the
similarities and differences between ACT and other
cognitive-behavioral therapies and understand the bases for these
comparisons.
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Attendees will learn to
conceptualize client problems from an ACT perspective and learn ACT
interventions based on these conceptualizations.
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Attendees will learn how
to employ values work to engage clients and energize their work in
therapy.
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Attendees will learn
specific acceptance and cognitive defusion interventions they can
begin using immediately.
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 Dr.
Joel Guarna is a licensed psychologist in the state of Maine.
He earned his PhD from Bowling Green State University in 2000
and trained at the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology as a
predoctoral intern and postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Guarna
later served as a staff psychologist in the Department of
Veterans Affairs Healthcare System in Boston. During this
time, he provided individual, couples, and group treatment to
veterans with co-occurring substance use and mental health
disorders. He directed an intensive outpatient program for
veterans with addictions at the Brockton VAMC. He provided
training and supervision to psychologists-in-training and
psychiatry residents as a Clinical Instructor of Psychology in
the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Guarna began work in private practice in 2005 and
now manages his own practice,
White
Pine Behavioral Health LLC, in Portland,
Maine. Dr. Guarna’s areas of interest and
specialization include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
(CBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), mind/body
health and mindfulness-based therapies, and treatment of
anxiety and mood disorders, trauma and PTSD, and
addictions.
He was introduced to ACT in 1999 and has attended and
given numerous talks and trainings on ACT over the past
several years.
ACT Profile | Practice Website
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healthcare worker or student to participate in this workshop.
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