Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) is an evidence-based behavioral intervention framework that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies alongside commitment and behavior change strategies to increase psychological flexibility — the ability to contact the present moment fully and consciously, and to change or persist in behavior when doing so serves one's chosen values. In clinical contexts, ACT has been applied to a wide range of psychological challenges.
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Join Free →This conversational webinar will discuss strategies from the Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) literature that can be adapted to mentorship and supervision within applied behavior analytic settings. ACT approaches strive to empower staff to spend less time and energy grappling with their distress and more time and energy contacting their own chosen values and engaging in overt behavior that fills their jobs with meaning and purpose. The discussion will highlight several practical procedures that are easy to learn and that BCBAs can start implementing in their practice tomorrow. Dr. Tarbox will make the case that adding ACT to ABA supervision and mentorship has the potential to inject our practices with greater compassion and to empower us to embrace our mentees as whole human beings, not only as the sum of their overt organizational performance.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | Supervision |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dr. Jonathan Tarbox is the Co-Founder and Program Director of the Master of Science in Applied Behavior Analysis program at the University of Southern California, as well as Director of Research at FirstSteps for Kids. Dr. Tarbox is the past Editor-in-Chief of the journal Behavior Analysis in Practice, and a past founding member of the Advisory Board of the Women in Behavior Analysis (WIBA) conference. He has published five books on applied behavior analysis and autism treatment, is the Series Editor of the Elsevier book series Critical Specialties in Treating Autism and Other Behavioral Challenges, and an author of over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in scientific texts. His research focuses on behavioral interventions for teaching complex skills to individuals with autism, Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT), and applications of applied behavior analysis to issues of diversity and social justice. Dr. Tarbox is proud to have multiple neurodivergent family members and is working hard to become a better ally to the Autistic community.
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All behavior-analytic intervention is individualized. The information on this page is for educational purposes and does not constitute clinical advice. Treatment decisions should be informed by the best available published research, individualized assessment, and obtained with the informed consent of the client or their legal guardian. Behavior analysts are responsible for practicing within the boundaries of their competence and adhering to the BACB Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts.