Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
UPSKILL MICRO-CREDENTIAL
In this micro-credential you’ll learn about the hugely popular modern behavioural therapy, Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). ACT aims to help people live a rewarding and meaningful life while accepting the presence of unwanted and often unpleasant thoughts, emotions, memories, urges and sensations that inevitably occur.
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a modern behavioural therapy that aims to help people live a rewarding and meaningful life while accepting the presence of unwanted and often unpleasant private thoughts, emotions, memories, urges and sensations that inevitably occur. ACT teaches people to embrace their feelings and emotions rather than fighting or running away, which is often the natural instinct. ACT is an approach built upon a values-based system that encourages individuals to understand what their own values are and to live by these.
The main goal of ACT is to increase psychological flexibility – the ability to be present in the moment, with awareness of our experiences and to take action and persist in behaviours that are guided by our values. If we can be more conscious and open to our experiences and act on our values, we gain meaning and a sense of purpose. We are also better equipped to deal with the challenges that life brings.
The Upskill on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) introduces you to this increasingly popular and commonly-embraced third-wave behaviour therapy. This course has been specifically designed for helping professionals, building on your existing knowledge, skills and practical experience, and helping you develop understanding, techniques and strategies to assist you as you continue your professional journey.
The Course includes a Study Guide, a Book of Readings, and recorded webinars, and is completed through passing a multiple-choice assessment. The Study Guide will take you through the core content of the course, including information on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, professional considerations, examples of practices for your work with clients, and more. These are supported by selected readings (all contained within the Book of Readings), each of which has been selected to expand or elaborate upon a particular area of knowledge or skill.
Upon completion of this course, you will have learnt how to:
Understand the principles of ACT and the Hexaflex
Examine how ACT can be implemented in your client sessions
Look at the relationship between mindfulness and ACT
Learn how to use specific interventions
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Why study an Upskill Micro-Credential
The world of work is changing. Upskilling, reskilling and agility is key to ensuring you or your organisation thrives in this ever changing, tech-focused decade. As the pace of change quickens, you and your workforce will need to learn new skills quickly to adapt and stay competitive.
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Our micro-credential courses fill and advance critical areas of knowledge. They are deep-dive explorations into important topic areas that’ll advance your capacity at work and personally.
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We’re specialist educators in mental health with over 30-years’ experience. Our extensive experience provides us with a deep understanding of learner and market needs.
Extremely applicable
Our micro-credential courses are extremely applicable to people from all work and education backgrounds. Our courses cover diverse content areas relevant to an array of professional contexts.
Flexible learning
With so many demands on our time, it’s crucial that learning fits around our other commitments. That's why our micro-credential courses are self-paced and carefully designed to provide a rich, enjoyable learning experience.
Career boost
Our micro-credential courses fill and advance critical areas of knowledge. They are deep-dive explorations into important topic areas that’ll advance your capacity at work and personally.
Education specialists
We’re specialist educators in mental health with over 30-years’ experience. Our extensive experience provides us with a deep understanding of learner and market needs.
Extremely applicable
Our micro-credential courses are extremely applicable to people from all work and education backgrounds. Our courses cover diverse content areas relevant to an array of professional contexts.
Flexible learning
With so many demands on our time, it’s crucial that learning fits around our other commitments. That's why our micro-credential courses are self-paced and carefully designed to provide a rich, enjoyable learning experience.
Course Outline
This Course is divided into 3 Parts:
The Upskill starts with information about the origins of ACT, before going into more detail about the ACT Hexaflex and its goal of psychological flexibility. It also focuses on the crucial role of identifying and understanding your personal values. Following this, you will review how ACT can be used in both individual and group settings. The section concludes with a case study, demonstrating the use of ACT with a client with anxiety.
Now we have a basic understanding of ACT, it’s time to look at how to implement it into your client work. To begin with, we examine how to structure an ACT intervention and discuss in the first session, including techniques such as Join the DOTS, Thought Suppression Exercise and the Quicksand Metaphor. Next, we investigate how to work with the client to come up with value-aligned treatment goals before continuing our case study.
The last two sections focus on the many different activities that can be used with clients. These include interventions for acceptance (Wade Through the Swamp, Unwelcome Party Guest); contact with the present moment (Modes of the Mind, Mindfulness); defusion (Master Storyteller, Word Machine); self as context (The Chessboard, The Observer); value identification (The Compass, The Heroes); committed action (Life Domains, Skiing); and SMART goals.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, we deliver micro-credential courses in a range of areas. Our micro-credentials are between 20 and 40 hours of deep, rich, learning in specific areas.
All micro-credentials lead to a Digital Badge and Certificate of Attainment. They are self-paced and assessed through multiple-choice.
Some of our micro-credential courses include Creative and Critical Thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Working with Mental Health, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, and many more. You can find a catalogue of all courses here: AIPC Upskill
Our AIPC Upskill courses are all micro-credentials, which means you receive a Digital Badge and Certificate of Attainment upon successful completion.
Our micro-credentials are between 20 and 40 hours of deep, rich, learning in specific areas.
Some of our micro-credential courses include Creative and Critical Thinking, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Working with Mental Health, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership, and many more. You can find a catalogue of all courses here: AIPC Upskill
No, anyone can enrol in an AIPC Upskill micro-credential course.
Our Upskill micro-credential courses are self-paced and online. Each course includes a Study Guide, a Book of Readings, and recorded webinars; and are assessed through multiple-choice questions.
Our micro-credential courses are between 20 to 40 hours of learning.
Upskill micro-credential courses comprise multiple-choice, online assessments. For successful completion of an assessment, you are required to attain a minimum 65% pass rate. As the assessment is competency-based, if you don’t pass on your first try, you will have the opportunity to review and re-submit your answers (there are no re-attempt limits).
Upon completion of an Upskill micro-credential course you receive an electronic Certificate of Attainment and a Digital Badge. A Digital Badge is a form of Digital Credential (also known as ‘micro-credential’) that can be verified/validated online. A digital badge signals your achievement to potential employers and stakeholders, as they are able to verify your learning/skill acquisition outcomes in real-time, over the web.
A Digital Badge is a form of Digital Credential (also known as ‘micro-credential’) that can be verified/validated online. A digital badge signals your achievement to potential employers and stakeholders, as they are able to verify your learning/skill acquisition outcomes in real-time, over the web.
As Upskill micro-credential courses cover a variety of topics and are relevant to diverse professions, you should check the CPD requirements of your industry association.
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