Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Challenging the Normal Destructive Nature of the Human Mind – Cincinnati

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Event:: Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Challenging the Normal Destructive Nature of the Human Mind – Cincinnati
Start:: March 11, 2013 8:30 am
End:: March 11, 2013 12:15 pm
Cost:: 50.00
Organizer:: Talbert House
Phone:: 513-751-7747
Email:: gregory.hogg@talberthouse.org
Updated:: December 18, 2012

Venue:: Talbert House
Phone:: 513-751-7747 X1069
Address:: 2600 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH, 45206, United States

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an empirically-based intervention that combines mindfulness and acceptance with commitment and behavior-change strategies to improve functioning and is in contrast to a symptom-elimination approach.

3.5 CE

Instructor: Michelle Maegley, PsyD
Objectives:

1. Describe ACT and how it relates to current interventions commonly used

2. Identify patient problems that might respond well to ACT and how ACT can benefit patients with serious and persistent mental illness

3. Identify how “normal” psychological processes contribute to suffering and how ACT principles can help develop psychological flexibility.