Star Behavioral Health Program Tier III: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Online)
The Returning Veterans Project is proud to partner with the Oregon National Guard to bring the Star Behavioral Health Program free of charge to providers in the state of Oregon.
Location: Online
Continuing Education: 14 Clinical CE Credits (Applied at NASW)
Cost: Free. Open to all health service providers and community members.
Who Should Attend: This training is open to all RVP Volunteer Providers, social workers, mental health counselors, and community providers who have completed a Tier II training.
What You Will Learn:
Tier III trainings offer behavioral health professionals specific clinical skills that focus on evidence-based treatment to address specific behavioral health issues facing service members. Tier III trainings are two-day workshops offered in-person and online. Participants must attend both days in their entirety. To attend Tier III trainings, you must be accepted into the registry and have completed Tier I and Tier II. You may, however, register for the training after completing a Tier II before being accepted into the registry in order to reserve your spot.
Learning Objectives
- Appraise the utility of the assumption of healthy normality when making sense of human suffering
- Formulate presenting problems of military clients from a functional contextual perspective
- Distinguish between the 6 processes that promote psychological flexibility
- Apply the Psychological Flexibility Model of psychopathology to create unique ACT treatment plans
- Use key theoretical concepts related to functional contextualism and relational frame theory to enhance clinical interventions
- Integrate conversations about the unworkability of control-based strategies for managing presenting problems into client interactions
- Develop client motivation to consider acceptance and willingness as an alternative to struggling with unwanted internal experiences
- Apply “open” skills to address experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion
- Use “aware” skills to address over identification with ones’ self-concept and rigid attention to the past and/or future
- Demonstrate “engage” skills to address lack of meaning and purpose and ineffective behavior (e.g., procrastination, avoidant persistence)
- Evaluate options for continued education and training in the ACT model of treatment
CE Faculty
Erin Frick, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist serving as a Senior Military Behavioral Health Psychologist for the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In this role, she develops and leads Evidence-Based Psychotherapy (EBP) trainings and is integrally involved in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within CDP. Dr. Frick earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Manchester University (formerly Manchester College) in Indiana. She graduated with her master’s degree in mental health counseling from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Wright State University in Dayton, OH.
Andrew Santanello, Psy.D. is a Senior Military Behavioral Health Psychologist at the Center for Deployment Psychology of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences with expertise in the areas of PTSD, mindfulness, Cognitive Processing Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. In addition to being an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and National Cognitive Processing Therapy trainer, Dr. Santanello is also a member of the CDP Presents team, a regular contributor to the Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF), and co-host of CDP’s podcast, Practical for Your Practice . In addition to his work with CDP, Dr. Santanello is the President-Elect of the ACT for Military Special Interest Group and Member-At-Large of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter (MAC) of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS).
Registration for this training occurs directly through the Star Behavioral Health Program.
Contact: RVP Staff .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
503-954-2259
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