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EP20 Workshop 15 - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as a Form of Process-Based Therapy - Steven Hayes, PhD
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Length: 2 hours 9 minutes
Description:
Evidence-based therapy is moving in a process-based direction. In this workshop I will introduce Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a form of process-based therapy that can be build around an extended evolutionary model and applied to a wide range of human concerns.
Educational Objectives:
- Describe the six elements of a psychological flexibility model.
- Give a clinical example of each of the six psychological flexibility processes.
- Describe how the psychological flexibility model links conceptually to a multi-dimensional, multi-level extended evolutionary meta-model.
*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*
Steven Hayes, PhD
Steven C. Hayes, Ph.D Clinical Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, is a Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada. An author of 44 books and nearly 600 scientific articles, he is known for his work on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a widely used and researched method of psychological and behavioral intervention, and Relational Frame Theory, a comprehensive empirical research program on human language and cognition. Dr. Hayes has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy, and is among the most cited psychologists in the word.
