Contact Hours: 20
Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Based on the Book: Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for the Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress By Robyn D. Walser, Darrah Westrup - 2007 - 255 pages. This indispensable resource for mental health professionals offers a practical, accessible and theoretically complete approach to using ACT to treat PTSD and acute trauma-related symptoms
Objectives
- Provide an overview of PTSD
- Discuss Experiential Avoidance
- Explore the verbal nature of trauma
- Examine mindfulness in relation to ACT
- Compare and contrast ACT with CBT
- Explore and describe the core components of ACT: Creative Hopelessness, Control as the Problem, Willingness, Self as Context, Valued Living and Committed Action.