Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: From bottom – up

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an integrative form of behavior therapy, which has recieved a lot of attention in recent years. ACT is usually described using a clinical model called ”the hexaflex”, which consists of six basic clinical principles.

Originally ACT developed within the historical tradition of behavior analysis, with it’s emphasis on operant and respondent learning, and grew from modern research on human language and cognition within this particular psychological tradition. The theory that sumerizes this research is called relational frame theory (RFT) and is the backbone of ACT.

This workshop will give an introduction to relational frame theory . It will present all it’s basic concepts with a special emphasis on the clinical utility of the theory, as it is implemented in ACT. The workshop will also show how more basic learning principles are used within the context of doing ACT. In short: the workshop will present ACT from bottom up, increasing the partakers understanding of how a knowledge of basic scientific principles build the psychotherapy model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

The first two days will be used for going through RFT as such. The last day will focus more on practical clinical use of the theory in doing ACT.

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Niklas Tørneke