ACT as a Brief Intervention

Dr Russ Harris, MBBS, is an internationally-renowned ACT trainer, and author of the world’s best-selling book on ACT, The Happiness Trap. Russ’s background is in medicine. As a physician, he became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, which ultimately led him to change careers and become a therapist.

Russ’s ACT training reaches an extensive global audience of health professionals, and he has authored nine books on the ACT model. His best-known work, The Happiness Trap, has sold over one million copies, with translations into over thirty languages.

Russ's popular textbook for professionals, ACT Made Simple, reflects his genuine passion for making the principles and practice of this evidenced-based therapy simple, clear and easy to put into practice.

This 6-week interactive training is ideal for practitioners who want to:

• Strengthen and streamline their ACT skills, so they can work more efficiently

• Use brief, practical strategies to rapidly foster cognitive flexibility, emotional flexibility, and behavioural flexibility

• Quickly build clients’ skills in self-compassion, values-based problem-solving, ‘quick’n’simple defusion’, ‘mindfulness-on-the go’, and ‘rapid acceptance’

• Do ACT in time-limited settings such as primary care, short in-patient stays, school or university counselling, prisons, EAPs, and crisis intervention services

Who This Course is For

ACT for Brief Interventions is open to any professional who works with physical or psychological health. This includes therapists, coaches, counselors, physicians, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, physios, dietitians, occupational therapists, youth workers, BCBAs, speech therapists, and any other type of health professional - as well as students and researchers in these fields.

However, we recommend you have a solid beginners level understanding of ACT. This can include:

• Attend an introductory level 2-day ACT workshop (with any trainer).

• Complete our online ACT for Beginners course.

• Work through a beginners-level ACT textbook, such as ACT Made Simple or Learning ACT.

Enrollments

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ACT as a Brief Intervention is designed for mental health professionals, health professionals and coaches worldwide. On completion you'll receive an official certificate of completion, which can be submitted to registration bodies for CPD.

This course is accredited for 8 CE/CME credit hours for US licensed professionals:

• Psychologists - 8 CE hours, APA - co-sponsored with Amedco, an APA-approved sponsor

• Social workers - 8 general CE credits, ASWB ACE

• Physicians - 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, ACCME

• Nurses - 8 contact hours, ANCC

• Counselors, MFTs & addiction professionals - 8 hours, accepted by most US state boards via APA and ASWB ACE credit — see the state-by-state list

• Approved CE activity with the New York State boards for Psychology, Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, and Marriage & Family Therapy.

View the full learner notification for this course (PDF) - includes complete accreditation statements, state board acceptance lists, learning objectives and faculty disclosures.