Target Audience:
This is a beginners to intermediate workshop suitable for professionals working with young people who want to learn how to use ACT with children and adolescents, as well as those who want to improve their skills in using ACT with young people.
In this workshop, you will learn how to develop an ACT case conceptualization and collaboratively create goals for counselling. A wide variety of engaging, creative and easy to use techniques will be taught, and you will learn which exercises are suitable for young children, for older children, and for adolescents. An adapted version of the ACT Matrix will be introduced.
You will learn how to enlist parents/caregivers as ‘ACT coaches’ and suggest home tasks for children, adolescents and their parents, and provide recommendations to parents/caregivers, teachers and schools.
Educational Objectives:
– Outline a simplified ACT/RFT Model of Psychopathology.
– Explain how to use ACT to increase resilience in children and adolescents.
– Outline how to adapt ACT for children and adolescents.
– Explain the ACT Kidflex and how to use it with children and adolescents.
– Outline the ACT stance and how to model it in working with children, adolescents and their parents/caregivers.
– Explain how to use an adapted version of the ACT Matrix.
– Outline how to develop an ACT case conceptualization. Then, create goals for counselling together with children/adolescents and where appropriate, parents/caregivers.
– Explain how to use the ACT Kidflex to affirm neurodiversity.
– Identify where in the ACT Kidflex to start with your clients and how to select which ACT Kidflex processes to use.
– Demonstrate how ACT experiential exercises can be used with children and adolescents.
– Describe how to suggest home tasks to parents/caregivers to reinforce ACT.
– Outline how to provide recommendations to teachers and schools.
Pricing: AUD$625 inc GST
Refund Policy:
No refunds will be provided.