About the Course
While any effective psychological treatment considers and integrates patient values, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has explicitly incorporated identifying and clarifying values into the psychotherapy model. This activity functions to help individuals change their behavior in ways that align with what brings them meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. Values clarification is a powerful tool in not only helping patients to connect with who they are, but also in providing concrete strategies to help make changes that they themselves have defined as important to creating the lives they want to live. This course provides practical instruction in the process of values clarification, including identifying key cues that values clarification may be useful with a given client. Participants will be exposed to a variety of psychoeducational tools that can be used directly with clients to increase their understanding of the meaning of the term "values" within this context and understand the importance of values clarification. In addition, this course will model several different types of strategies, including visual representations as well as metaphors, that can be used to assist patients in clarification of their values and implement values-aligned actions within their everyday life in order to improve functional outcomes.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Apply at least two psychoeducation tools to increase patient knowledge and understanding about the importance of values
Demonstrate (model) at least three strategies (including visual aids and metaphors) to teach the effective use of values with patients
Apply at least two practical tools to clarify values and shape patients towards using committed actions
To receive credit, participants must watch the recording in full and pass the associated homestudy test.
Your Instructor
Nikki Rubin, Psy.D.
Dr. Nikki Rubin is a licensed psychologist in NY and CA. In addition to her private practice, she is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCLA, where she lectures on ACT and supervises graduate students learning ACT. She has provided teaching and training in ACT and other mindfulness-based cognitive and behavioral therapies.
Dr. Rubin has reported no conflicts of interest or commercial support.
MindScience Collective is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. MindScience Collective maintains responsibility for this program and its content.