Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

FACT is a model of brief therapy that is a highly condensed version of a well-established longer-term treatment called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Strosahl et al 2012) and can work well for people wanting to get 'unstuck'. FACT uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies to help people transform their relationship with unwanted, distressing experiences, such as disturbing thoughts, unpleasant emotions, painful memories, or uncomfortable physical symptoms and the impact these experiences have on their current life.

About your Instructor

Bruce is a Professor of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland New Zealand and a practising GP at Greenstone Family Clinic in Manurewa in South Auckland. He does regular general practice at that clinic and also does special consultations using Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT) for people who are feeling stuck in their lives by stress, pain or low energy. He does this work with his own patients and those referred from his clinic colleagues as well as for people outside of the clinic.

Course curriculum

    1. How to navigate this online learning

    2. Chapter 1 Video

    3. Welcome

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Introduction Video

    5. Aims

    6. Pepeha

    7. Terminology

    8. What is ACT and FACT

    9. My History

    1. 1. Brief intervention

    2. 2. Optional tutorial on HBA1c for monitoring diabetes

    3. 3. What's going on intervention

    4. 4. WTF (whats the function of this action(S))

    5. 5. Role of Human Mind

    6. 6. Recap and Reflection

    7. Pause Point

    8. Chapter 2 Video

    1. 1. The first FACT consultation 3 parts

    2. 2. Emoqol – single question for mood

    3. Pause Point

    4. 3. Issue of labels

    5. Chapter 3 Video

    6. The human brain (mind) what is its role and the cause of human suffering

    1. 1. Essential tutorial on work love play

    2. 2. Te whare tapa whā version of work/love/play

    3. 3. Assessment view + s

    4. 4. Short Sleep Screen and Advice Tool 2023

    5. 5. Mindful Anchor and Holding Lightly/Breathing Slowly

    6. 6. Hexaflex and Inflexahex

    7. 7. Three pillars of FACT

    8. 8. Mindful Anchor with Debbie

    9. 9. Values and likelihood of action

    10. 10. Sam Holding Lightly video

    11. Pause Point

    12. Chapter 4 Video

    13. Overview of the Assessment

    1. 1. Interventions x4

    2. 2. I am noticing

    3. 2a and 2b. Hands as thoughts (close to the face) and puppets on a string

    4. 3. Hands as thoughts with arms extended

    5. 4. Symptom Distancing

    6. 5. Rapid Symptom Distancing Therapy

    7. 6. The Best Treatment for Depression

    8. 7. Abstract of Study

    9. Chapter 5 Video

    1. 1. “Brilliant Case” - Message of forehead intervention

    2. 2. Compassion and self compassion

    3. 3. Applied Behaviour Analysis

    4. 4. The Choice Point

    5. 5. Choice Point from Greenstone Clinic

    6. 6. The Bulls Eye

    7. 7. Ongoing Education

    8. Pause Point

    9. 8. Choice Point Russ Harris

    10. 9. Values Exercise - Bulls Eye Thomas Lundgren instructions

    11. Chapter 6 Video

About this course

  • $200
  • 6 Chapters
  • 115 minutes

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