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ACT Practitioner’s Toolkit and How to Use It

Can be taken as an individual course or as a part of:
The British Psychological Society Approved through the BPS Quality Mark Scheme.
3 days 9:30am – 4:30pm 21 CPD hours

Course Brief

This course forms part of the following certificate:

This module must be attended live as part of the Certificate structure. It can also be taken as an independent live training.

Participants are expected to have completed the SDS ACT Introductory Course or an equivalent minimum of 14 hours of structured introductory ACT training prior to attending this module and to be willing to share anonymised cases to discuss during the training.

This course forms part of the following certificate:

This module must be attended live as part of the Certificate structure. It can also be taken as an independent live training.

About the course:

  • Type: Experiential Live Workshop
  • Length - 3 Full Days; 9.30 AM - 4.30 PM UK time; 21 CPD hours
  • Mode of delivery - Live on Zoom only
  • Attendance - Live attendance is mandatory. This is a fully experiential training and cannot be completed via recording. A recording will be provided to delegates who attend the full live training for revision purposes only.

In this course, you will be working on three key tools that are essential to any ACT practitioner:

  • awareness of one’s practice;
  • a theoretical understanding of one’s practice;
  • and a pragmatic approach to the implementation of context and theory awareness.

This course will therefore focus primarily on the process of engaging in ACT practice from a flexible stance, using the latest advances in theory and research to guide your future practice.

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This is a fully live experiential training. Attendance on all three days is required.

Day 1

Functional analysis of your practice – are you struggling with a particular area?

  • Advanced case conceptualisation
  • Moving from case conceptualisation to intervention
  • Structuring the intervention (process-based approach)
  • Noticing your own barriers as a therapist (psychotherapeutic inflexibility)
  • Being an ACT practitioner from the Heart: Open, Aware, Engaged

Day 2

Relational Frame Theory – The power of language

  • Understanding language as a learned behaviour
  • Language, psychopathology and assessment
  • Using RFT in practice
    • Building behaviour change
    • Building a flexible sense of self
    • Building motivation
  • Creating your own metaphors
    • Functional analysis of a metaphor
    • Catching Metaphors in session and co-creating a metaphor with your client

Day 3

  • In session process activation – The three opportunities model
    • Opportunity to notice
    • Opportunity to choose
    • Opportunity to ACT
  • Bringing the Three Opportunities model to the client’s context

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Course Tutor

Prof Nuno Ferreira
PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, Associate Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Dr Nuno Ferreira is an Associate Professor of Clinical Health Psychology at the University of Nicosia. He holds a Licenciature in Clinical Psychology from ISPA, Portugal, and a PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology from the University of Edinburgh.

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Testimonials

It was the first intensive therapy training I have had for some years, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to learn about and experience a model new to me in such depth, pitched at exactly the right level. It’s left me with a lot to think about and apply to clinical practice going forward. Thank you to Professor Ferreira and SDS Team.

Sam T., Manchester University NHS FT

Would 10/10 recommend the training delivered by Nuno Ferreira as part of SDS BPS Approved Certificate on ACT, it’s led me on a great journey so far!

Rachel Moran