Timothy Gordon – ACT for Children & Adolescents

(This course is also available for Tim will give you the basics of immediate delivery ACT How to help kids live more engaged lives through acceptance, self-acceptance and empowerment-Mindfulness and compassion are essential skills.

Timothy Gordon – ACT for Children & Adolescents

• Strategies to manage emotions, reach goals, and build relationships
• There are new ways to reduce stress in young people
• Experiential exercises, case studies, and video examples

You’ve heard that desperate cry for Help from a caregiver or parent to – “fix my kid”.

Integrating Acceptance-Commitment Therapy (ACTThis new way of integrating ) into your practice is a great idea for Positive therapeutic outcomes can be achieved even with difficulties-To-treat younger clients. Be prepared to learn new tools that will transform the way you treat younger clients “fix” agenda and embrace an approach of acceptance and build on children’s strengths.

Join experienced ACT Tim, trainer GordonAs he demonstrates an exercise and technique, MSW, RSW-This workshop will provide you with the skills to help your children deal with anger, anxiety and depression, eating disorders, trauma, family conflict, and other issues.

Tim will explain the major concepts to you ACT How to help kids live more engaged lives through acceptance and self-compassion-Mindfulness and compassion are essential skills.

ACT for children and adolescents is not merely a new technique or set of methods, it’s a scientific approach enhancing practices that already work for Many clinicians bring new life to the case conceptualization process and look at our most challenging cases. You can find case examples, videos, and other role models.-Play you will be able integrate ACT Skills for your practice tomorrow

1. Describe six processes that allow for psychological flexibility.
2. Psychological flexibility is a method to solve common clinical problems for children in treatment.
3. Explain how the model for psychological flexibility can be organized into three main interventions that underlie most cognitive behavioral therapies in the 3rd wave.
4. Demonstrate the capacity to formulate an ACT You can achieve a consistent therapeutic agreement with primary caregivers, and you can get enough buy-in from other systems.
5. Demonstrate how to use “creative hopelessness” To motivate a change in control agenda, including experiential activities that bring children in direct contact with their feelings and help them let go of unhelpful thoughts.
6. Demonstrate at most three skills or methods for increasing your knowledge ‘awareness’ Child client populations and associated buys-From primary caregivers.
7. Demonstrate at most three skills or methods for increasing your knowledge ‘engagement’ Child client populations and associated buys-From primary caregivers.
8. Differentiate between the values and goals as stated in ACT What primary caregiver values can be used? for Buy-in.

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ACT In a Nutshell

• The role of values: acceptance, mindfulness, commitment, behavior
• Experiential avoidance
• Psychological flexibility
• ACT for children & adolescents
• The hexagon model

Role of exposure in ACT

• Transform client values into behavior goals
• External and internal barriers to behavioral goals
• External exposure
  • Situations
  • People
• Exposition internal
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions
  • Memories
  • Bodily sensations
• Young people’s psychological flexibility
  • Games and activities

Assess and track

• Analyse the behavior of young people
• There are three types of behavior: open, closed and hybrid.-Be aware-engaged
• A therapeutic agreement, agenda, or contract should be created

ACT Action – Strategies. Games. Activities. Experiential Exercises. for Children & Adolescents:

• Anxiety
• Trauma
• Attachment issues
• Body dysmorphic disorder
• Bullying
• Family conflict

Group Settings & Schools

• Use ACT Groups with children and teens
• ACT Schools and non-schools-Clinical settings

Here’s what you’ll get in Timothy Gordon – ACT for Children & Adolescents