ACT for Adolescents FAQs

A number of things. For a start, you’ll see numerous therapy demonstrations, featuring five different expert therapists – so you’ll get to see a wide range of different therapeutic styles. There’s also the fact you’ll learn directly from the world’s foremost ACT trainer, Dr Russ Harris – famous for his fun, engaging, and incredibly practical training approach, that sure to keep you focused, so you can absorb key ideas, and quickly build confidence in applying them.

And you’ll learn how to modify ACT so that it’s effective with adolescents: how to bring in fun and creativity, playfulness and humour, non-technical language, engaging exercises, physical metaphors, and simple skills-building.

ACT for Adolescents accredited for 16CE/CME hours. View the full learner notification for this course (PDF) - includes complete accreditation statements, state board acceptance lists, learning objectives and faculty disclosures.
Participants will also receive at certificate of completion at the end of their course, which can be submitted to registration bodies for CPD.

No. If you’re a relative newcomer to ACT, it’s wise to do the ACT For Beginners course first, to build your foundational knowledge and develop the core skills.  But it’s not absolutely essential.

Absolutely. Many adolescents are pushed into therapy by parents or teachers, and are understandably reluctant to engage. In ACT for Adolescents, you’ll learn simple, practical strategies to meet them where they are, validate their reluctance, and ‘win them over’ to engaging in therapy.

Yes, it does. This ACT for Adolescents training will explode your creativity: music, painting, drawing, sculpting, movies, photography, Lego … there are so many playful and engaging ways to do ACT with adolescents. You’ll see interventions involving everything from bubble wrap and paper plates to toilet rolls and jelly snakes!

It sure will. This course provides you with structured, practical skills and strategies for helping adolescents to overcome self-doubt and self-judgment, and foster self-compassion in its place.

You’ll learn how to defuse from even the harshest self-criticism, and build self-compassion even when clients insist they ‘don’t deserve it.’

Yes, for sure. ACT for Adolescents has engaging, bite-sized modules where you’ll learn a reliable, practical framework for effectively working with depression, anxiety disorders, and other common clinical issues.