Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders
- Average Rating:
- 32
- Speaker:
- Daniel J. Moran, PhD, BCBA-D
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 11 Minutes
- Copyright:
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23 Sep, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS047880
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
- Access:
- Never expires.
Description
Are your current techniques just not working?
You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through. You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.
Watch ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, as he delivers an exercise and intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.
You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitive behavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.
By shifting client focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.
Purchase today, and Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!
CPD
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
This online program is worth 6.25 hours CPD.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy (2.4 MB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy - French (2.4 MB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy - Italian (2.4 MB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy - German (2.4 MB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy - Spanish (2.4 MB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Daniel J. Moran, PhD, BCBA-D Related seminars and products
Daniel J. Moran, PhD, BCBA-D, is an associate professor in the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology with Health Emphasis program at Touro University. He has dedicated his career to reducing suffering and enhancing quality of life.
Dr. Moran is also a past president of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS), the international organization for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with over 8,000 members worldwide. He co-authored the first case conceptualization manual for ACT, ACT in Practice (New Harbinger), and served on the inaugural ACT training committee. He has authored several other books on ACT, including Finding Your Why and Finding Your Way.
As a recognized ACT trainer within the ACBS community, Dr. Moran is known for his engaging training style and has been an invited keynote speaker at numerous events over the past decade. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Network, The Discovery Channel TLC, and Animal Planet to discuss treatment approaches for various clinical disorders. His scholarly work includes articles and book chapters coauthored with CBT pioneer Albert Ellis and ACT founder Steven Hayes.
Since 2017, Dr. Moran has provided telepsychology services and founded Optimize Psychological Health, a teleclinic where he continues to supervise clinicians and provide direct client care. Passionate about applying ACT beyond clinical settings, he established Pickslyde Consulting to bring mindfulness and values-based commitment skills to workplaces – improving leadership, innovation, and safety.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Daniel Moran is the founder, president & CEO of Pickslyde Consulting, Optimize Psychological Health, and the founder of bcbasupervison.com. He has employment relationships with Touro University and FoxyLearning.com. Dr. Moran receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Daniel Moran is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences, the International OCD Foundation, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavior Analysis International, the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies, and the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Appraise ACT concepts such as experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion in session.
- Assess client’s fusion with thoughts about the past or future and illustrate mindfulness exercises to clients in a clinical setting.
- Evaluate the role of psychological flexibility in ACT and devise interventions for increasing it to improve treatment outcomes.
- Construct emotional and behavioral willingness exercises to address experiential avoidance.
- Analyze the efficacy of exercises in values clarification as it relates to treatment outcomes.
- Integrate the ACT approach into treatment to address clinically-relevant issues for specific disorders including depression, anxiety, trauma and personality disorders.
Outline
The ACT Model- Pain vs. suffering
- Language as a double-edged sword
- Goal: Psychological flexibility
- Limitations of the research & potential risks
Acceptance: Foster Client Acceptance of Emotions to Increase Values-Based Action
- What should be accepted?
- The problem with controlling thoughts
- How to sidestep the happiness trap
- Spot common phrases of non-acceptance
- Experiential avoidance
- How to help clients understand acceptance
- Experiential Exercise: The finger trap
- Relational frame theory & mental health
- Undermine unhelpful language processes
- Give clients skills to notice their thoughts
- How to decrease believability of unhelpful thoughts
- Aid clients in changing the functions of their thoughts
- Experiential Exercise: Notice the meaning of language
- The three different versions of the self
- How to describe the “observer self” to clients
- How to distance the self from thoughts & emotions
- The chess board metaphor
- Experiential Exercise: ”I am” exercise
- How language affects mindfulness
- Goals of mindfulness
- ThoughtFit exercises
- How do we teach clients to be mindful?
- How to build focus on values
- Obstacles in teaching mindfulness
- Experiential Exercise:Mindfulness meditation
- What are values?
- How to help clients author their values
- Values vs. goals
- When clients are “stuck”
- Values assessment
- Batteries exercise
- Epitaph exercise
- Persistent inaction, impulsivity or avoidance
- Address rule-governed behavior
- Exposure & ritual prevention strategies
- The Mindful Action Plan
ACT in Action
PTSD
- Function of trauma symptoms
- Experiential avoidance in PTSD
- Increase psychological safety
- Dominating concepts of the past & future
- Trauma-informed mindfulness exercises
- Client avoidance & escape strategies
- Assessment tools
- Address reason-giving as a barrier
- Strategies to increase willingness
- Anxiety Detector exercise
- Values contradiction
- How experiential avoidance impacts depression
- Fusion to the damaged conceptualized self
- Behavioral activation strategies
- Coping strategies
- Increase emotional tolerance
- Target the client’s story
- Experiential avoidance from the therapist
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Counsellors
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counsellors
- Psychotherapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Mental Health Professionals
- Therapists
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