In this 90-minute webinar, participants will learn about key Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) processes that can be targeted to promote psychological resilience in Service Members. The session will briefly describe the ACT conceptualization of psychological resilience, provide a practical model for recognizing clinical opportunities to target key ACT processes and demonstrate the application of the ACT model in a live role-play. In addition, this webinar will provide a brief overview of empirical support for ACT as an intervention to boost performance and factors related to resilience. Participants will leave with knowledge about the potential pathways by which ACT may promote resilience in military personnel.
Target Audience: For behavioral health/healthcare providers who treat military personnel, veterans, and their families.
Instructional Level: Introductory
Attendees will be able to:
Describe how engaging ACT core processes may enhance psychological resilience
Describe an ACT-consistent conceptual framework of resilience to guide clinician decision making
Demonstrate several strategies for engaging processes related to psychological resilience in therapy sessions
Identify empirical support for ACT as an intervention to boost resilience and recognize opportunities for additional research
This activity is approved for 1.5 continuing education credits (CEs)
The Center for Deployment Psychology is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Center for Deployment Psychology maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
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Wyatt R. Evans, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist with the VA North Texas Health Care System and in private practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He also supports DoD-, VA-, and NIH-funded research in the areas of trauma-focused treatment, moral injury, and resilience enhancement. Dr. Evans is certified in Prolonged Exposure and trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD. His also has expertise in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and has developed programs for utilizing ACT to treat moral injury, enhance resilience, and facilitate posttraumatic growth. Among Dr. Evans’ ongoing projects are an ACT-based workbook, The Moral Injury Work, for supporting healing among those affected by moral injury and a program development study of an ACT-based training to enhance resilience among military Special Forces trainees.
Andrew Santanello, Psy.D is a licensed, clinical psychologist. Dr. Santanello worked in the Department of Veterans Affairs as a PTSD specialist for over a decade before moving to his current position as a Military Behavioral Health Psychologist, PTSD subject matter expert, and National Cognitive Processing Therapy trainer at the Center for Deployment Psychology. Although Dr. Santanello has extensive expertise with "second-wave" CBT interventions such as CBT-D, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, and Cognitive Processing Therapy, his passion for "third-wave" behavioral interventions, such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, is a common thread throughout his professional career. His professional interests include dissemination and practice of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy with an increasing focus on mechanisms of change and process-based psychotherapy, psychological
