ACT for Personal Wellbeing becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside documentation workflows, supervision meetings, treatment planning, and quality review. For this course, the practical stakes show up in faster workflow without clinical drift, privacy loss, or weak oversight, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Vermont Association for Behavior Analysis
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →Studies have shown high rates of stress and burnout among BCBAs and teachers suggesting a greater need for the adoption of better self-care practices. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based technology, rooted in Contextual Behavior Science, that addresses the potential role of private events in affecting socially significant behaviors (Hayes, 2004). ACT has been applied across various settings to address numerous physical, mental and behavioral health issues, including stress and burnout. In this workshop, participants will assess their own levels of stress and burnout and be introduced to various ACT-based tools and approaches that can be utilized to help decrease stress and burnout, and increase valued living. This workshop will include a combination of didactic and experiential learning, and participants will leave with permanent products, self-report data, and specific ways they can implement the reviewed approach as part of their own self-care routine.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
| COA | 1.5 | — |
Erin Bertoli is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, former special education teacher, and certified yoga teacher (RYT200). Erin has spent over 20 years working in schools and homes, and has recently focused her career on contextual behavior science and the vast utility of mindfulness, Relational Frame Theory (RFT), and Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) within Applied Behavior Analysis. Erin has trained under Mark Dixon, Tom Szabo, Jonathon Tarbox, Evelyn Gould, Louis Hayes, Stu Libman, Siri Ming, and more. She has been involved in multiple research studies and has experience working with behavior analysts on increasing their scope of competence, and using ACT to foster strong social and emotional development in youth; support the wellbeing of teachers, clinicians, and caregivers; and enhance parent training and treatment fidelity of staff. As a mother of 3, Erin is committed to self-care and maintaining a strong work-life balance, which she has found through her own personal yoga practice, infused with daily ACT practices.
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.