Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Chronic Pain
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Chronic Pain
This course includes
The instructors
Overview:
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the six processes of the ACT hexaflex.
- Illustrate the role of psychological flexibility/inflexibility in ACT.
- Develop a more thorough and integrated understanding of the ACT model.
- Identify how to reduce experiential avoidance by implementing emotional and behavioral willingness techniques with clients.
- Define ACT concepts, such as experiential avoidance and cognitive defusion, as they relate to chronic pain syndromes.
- Describe two techniques for increasing psychological flexibility for a patient with fibromyalgia.
- Describe how ACT incorporates elements of exposure therapy to reduce experiential avoidance in a patient with chronic low back pain.
- Summarize core ACT concepts through the use of three patient case examples.
- Integrate ACT techniques into current practice.
- Apply the ACT therapeutic model to chronic stress regulation.
- Develop two mindfulness exercises to be used in an ACT intervention.
- Evaluate client behaviors, such as experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, and values-oriented living.
- Demonstrate increased skill in conceptualizing cases using the ACT model.
- Integrate two defusion and acceptance techniques into psychology practice.
- List three techniques of mindful observation of avoidance and fusion on the part of a client during a session.
- Integrate one new technique for helping clients articulate their values and identify workable actions so they can return to physical function.
- Explain the connection between the therapeutic contract and the therapeutic relationship.
- Explain three examples of self-as-context processes.
- List three techniques for mindful observation of pain and engagement on the part of a client during a session.
- Describe three ways of reading and responding to values processes as they show up in a session.
Audience:
This online course is for Physical Therapists (Physiotherapists) and all healthcare practitioners working with people who have chronic pain.
CEUs:
This course has been approved for 20 CEUs for Occupational Therapists in the US. This course has also been approved for 20 CEUs for Physical Therapists in the US in the states outlined below.
The Integrative Pain Science Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department, State Board of Physical Therapy, as an approved provider of physical therapist & physical therapist assistant continuing education. Courses are approved in New York as well as 34 states through reciprocity (see below for a list of states).
States Approved Through Reciprocity:
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
NOTE: Many state boards accept offerings accredited by national or other state organizations. If your state is not listed, please check with your professional licensing board to determine whether the accreditations listed are accepted.
For participants outside of the United States or those who do not require a formal CEU certificate, you will receive a certificate of completion when you complete this course. The Integrative Pain Science Institute can also provide a Letter of Participation form that you may keep for your records. Upon completion of the course, please contact us at support@
The instructors
PT, DPT, CNS, FNCP
Joe Tatta, PT, DPT, CNS, is a leader in integrative pain care, championing the cause for safe and effective chronic pain treatment. He serves as the CEO of the Integrative Pain Science Institute, a groundbreaking health organization dedicated to transforming pain care through evidence-based treatment, pioneering research, professional development, and free consumer education.
With a career spanning over 25 years, Dr. Tatta has been unwavering in his support for individuals suffering from pain, while also equipping healthcare professionals and stakeholders to enhance their pain management capabilities. His body of pain science research and professional accomplishments extends to the creation of scalable practice models grounded in health behavior change, integrative and lifestyle medicine, and innovative approaches empowering physical therapists to assume the role of primary healthcare providers. He is passionate about implementation science and strategies that facilitate the uptake of evidence-based practice into regular use by practitioners. The culmination of his work is PRISM: Pain Recovery and Integrative Systems Model and Pain Resilience Therapy.
Beyond his role as a speaker and trainer, Dr. Tatta is the best-selling author of three books, the host of the insightful Healing Pain Podcast, and an adjunct professor in the field of physical therapy. His dedication continues to shape the landscape of pain care, inspiring hope and transformation for countless individuals worldwide.
Material included in this course
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Week #1 The Science and Theory of ACT
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👉 Welcome to ACT for Chronic Pain
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🎥 Language, Cognition and Suffering
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🎥 Metaphors in ACT
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🎥 Illusion of Control
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🎥 Psychological flexibility & hexaflex model
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🖨 ACT week 1 slides
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🖨 ACT week 1 more slides :)
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🧩 Processes Targeted with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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📈 Paper - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Health Behavior Change: A Contextually-Driven Approach
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🧠 Quicksand Metaphor
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🧠 Hungry Tiger Metaphor
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🍾 Week #1 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional Reading- Comparison Between an Acceptance-Based and a Cognitive-Control-Based Protocol for Coping With Pain
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Feedback
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Week #2 Stuck, Not Broken - Creative hopelessness and workability
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🎥 ACT Week 2
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🖨 ACT Week 2 Slides
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🧩 Creative Hopelessness Transcript
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📝 Pain Management Inventory
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📝 Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form- Experiential Avoidance
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📈 Paper - The impact of experiential avoidance on the relations between illness representations, pain catastrophising and pain interference in chronic pain
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🧠 Life's a Beach Metaphor
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🧠 Chinese Finger Trap Metaphor
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🍾 Week #2 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional Reading - The Role of Experiential Avoidance, Resilience and Pain Acceptance in the Adjustment of Chronic Back Pain Patients Who Have Experienced a Traumatic Event: a Path An
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Feedback
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Week #3 Values-Guided Action
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🎥 ACT Week #3
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🖨 ACT Week #3 Slides
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📝 Bulls Eye Exercise
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🧩 Bull's Eye Transcript
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📝 Life Compass
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🧩 Values Words
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📝 Valued-Living-Questionnaire
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form-Values
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📈 Paper - Towards a physically more active lifestyle based on one’s own values: the results of a randomized controlled trial among physically inactive adults
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🧠 Compass Metaphor
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🍾 Week #3 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional - Trying on a Value
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🤓 Optional - VA Values and Committed Action
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🤓 Optional - Acceptance and values-based action in chronic pain: A three-year follow-up analysis of treatment effectiveness and process
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Feedback
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Coaching Calls
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Coaching Call Access
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Week #4 Cognitive Defusion
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🎥 Defusion 1
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🎥 Defusion 2
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🖨 Week #4 slides
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🎥 Mindfulness Defusion Exercises
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🖨 Mindfulness & Defusion Transcript
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📝Thoughts About Pain/The Protector Within
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📝Clean and Dirty Pain
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📝Pain Chain
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📝 Hooked By Thoughts
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📝Cognitive Fusion Questionaire
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form - Defusion
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📈Paper - Cognitive Restructuring Cognitive Defusion for Negative Thoughts
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🍾Week #4 Quiz
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🤓Optional- VA Defusion Video
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Feedback
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Week 5 - Nurturing Acceptance
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🧠Ice Cube Experiential Exercise
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🎥 Week #5 Acceptance
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🖨 Acceptance slides
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🎥 Allowing Exercise
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🖨 Allowing Exercise Transcript
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🎥 Picking Apart the Pain Monster
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🖨 Picking Apart the Pain Monster Transcript
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🎥 Mindful Emotions
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🖨 Mindful Emotions Transcript
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🎥 Creating Your Pain Monster
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🖨 Creating Your Pain Monster Transcript
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🎥 The Posture of Pain
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🖨 The Posture of Pain Transcript
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🧩Alternatives to Acceptance
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🧩 Examples of Acceptance Techniques
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📝 ACT Exposure Worksheet
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🧠 A Big List of Acceptance Metaphors
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form - Acceptance
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📝 Acceptance and values-based action in chronic pain: A three-year follow-up analysis of treatment effectiveness and process
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🍾Week #5 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional - VA Willingness Video
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🤓 Optional - Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale
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Feedback
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Week #6 Present Moment Awareness & Self as Context
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🎥 Present moment awareness
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🎥 Time Traveler Present moment awareness exercise
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🖨 Transcript - Time Traveler Present moment awareness exercise
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🎥 Body Scan Meditation
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🖨 Transcript - Body Scan Meditation
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🎥 Self as Context
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🎥 Observer Self Exercise 1 & 2
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🖨Transcript - Observer Self Exercise 1 & 2
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🎥 Talking and Listening
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🎥 The Continuous You
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🎥 Let Yourself Go
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🎥 The Sky and the Weather
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🖨 Self As Context transcripts
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🧠 PMA & SAC Metaphors
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📝 State Mindfulness Scale for Physical Activity
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📝 Philadelphia Mindfulness Scale
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form PMA & SAC
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🍾 Week #6 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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🤓 Optional - Observing Self VA
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🤓 Optional - Present Moment Awareness VA
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Feedback
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Week 7 -Committed Action
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🎥 Committed Action
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🖨 Committed Action
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📝 The Willingness and Action Plan
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🧠 Committed Action Metaphors
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📝 ACT Core Competency Self Rating Form Action
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🍾 Week #7 Quiz
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🏥 Take it to the Clinic!
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Feedback
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Week 8 Bonuses
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🖨 ACT for Pain Therapists Guide
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🎥 Dancing Around The Hexaflex
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📈 Paper - Current status of acceptance and commitment therapy for chronic pain: a narrative review
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🎥 VA Acceptance Video
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Feedback