Overview

The APS hosts this webinar with the APS College of Clinical Psychologists.

Recent advances in CBT and ACT have merged into a new processed-based therapy paradigm. This paradigm allows clinicians to move beyond packaged protocols that rarely fit our clients in a manualised format and instead gives us the ability to look at our clients' lives through the lens of function and process.

Function refers to understanding behaviour, thoughts and feelings in the context of learning history and workability, which gives clinicians places to intervene and create change.

Process refers to empirically supported psychological aspects that can facilitate change, such as exposure, acceptance, motivation, and emotion regulation.

This webinar will:

• share a clear and applied process-based framework that can be used with clients' self-beliefs,

• help clients understand their learning history, how they conceptualise themselves, how to carry their history, and how to create more flexible vital lives, and

• show how to develop therapeutic actions to help clients see themselves in new ways and engage in live affirming actions.

Level of Learning

Intermediate. This activity is targeted to those who have some previous learning on the topic.

Duration of access

Access to the recording and presenter slides is for 12 months from the date of confirmed registration.

APS CPD-Approved

This activity has been assessed against the APS Standards for CPD activities and approved for its education quality.

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Activity details

On-demand webinar reocrding.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• understand the new movement toward process-based therapy,

• describe the application of empirically supported processes to adult client presentations,

• demonstrate how to use a functional contextual approach to conceptualisation and intervention, and

• demonstrate and apply strategies to support client change in self-beliefs, compassion, selftalk, emotional regulation and wellbeing.

Presenter(s)

Dr Louise Hayes MAPS

About the presenter(s)

Dr Louise Hayes is a clinical psychologist, author, and international speaker. She is a Fellow and Past President of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science. She is a peer-reviewed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT) trainer engaged in training professionals worldwide. Together with Joseph Ciarrochi, she developed DNA-v, a leading model of acceptance and commitment therapy that has sparked international studies and school curricula. She is the co-author of the best-selling books for young people, 'Get Out of Your Mind' and 'Into Your Life for Teenagers', and 'Your Life Your Way', released in 2020. She is the author of the practitioner book, 'The Thriving Adolescent'. In 2022 she will release a new book using DNAV with adults, 'What Makes You Stronger'. Louise is also an active clinician, working with adults and adolescents. She is a former Senior Fellow with The University of Melbourne and Orygen Youth Mental Health. Louise leads a community of mindfulness practice as a certified Buddhist meditation teacher.