|
*Please note: This is a closed training for staff of Mercy Recovery
Center.*
Friday, November 17, 2009
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Mercy Recovery Center
Westbrook Maine
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
Using a combination of didactic presentation and experiential
exercises, this workshop will introduce participants to the ACT
model. Attendees will leave this training with a basic understanding
of ACT approaches to therapy and reasons to consider learning more.
Level of Experience
This is an introductory training. No
previous experience with ACT is necessary.
Learning Objectives
This workshop is designed
to help you:
- Summarize the ACT model
of human suffering including the roles of experiential avoidance and
cognitive fusion.
- Summarize how ACT
therapy goals differ from those most traditional cognitive and
behavioral therapies (and the presenting goals of most of our
clients.
- Practice a values
intervention you can use for yourself and your clients.
|
|
 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 health psychology, addictions, and treatment of
anxiety and mood disorders, and trauma.
He has been involved with addictions treatment and
research since 1994. 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
|
CV |
|
|
|
|
|
Registration
*Sorry,
registration is only available to staff at Mercy Recovery
Center* |
|
|
|
|
Workshop Packet: |
|
1.
Notes
for half-day (3 hour) workshop, Mercy Recovery Center |
|
2.
Embracing Your
Demons by Russ Harris |
|
3.
Blank Hexaflex |
|
|
|
Other information: |
|
Powerpoint
for half-day (3 hour) workshop, Mercy Recovery Center |
|
Research Summaries |
|
ACT &
CBT exercises from Joel's practice site (take & use any you
want) |
|
|
|
Sign up to receive the
ACT in New England e-newsletter and
be informed about upcoming ACT trainings in the area. |
|
|
|
ACT trainings in Maine
and around New England |
|
Audio
programs, interviews, popular press articles on ACT |
|
Professional home
for ACT therapists, researchers, and trainers |
|
|
|
|
