Thinking Functionally in the Therapy Room
Join us for an intensive deep dive into functional analysis, focused on how you can use functional analysis to tailor interventions with precision and take your therapy to the next level.
Format: 4 x 2-hour online webinars
Dates: Coming soon in 2024
The ability to engage in a functional assessment is core to all third wave and process-based approaches, and one of the key methods for individualising and tailoring interventions to fit the client. However, these skills are rarely taught in Psychology training programs and practical accounts of how to engage in functional conceptualisation in adult psychotherapy are surprisingly difficult to find in the literature. Training workshops for third wave therapies often assume that clinicians are already familiar with functional thinking, and tend to focus on the model being trained rather than the underlying skills of functional assessment.
For the generalist clinician working with a broad range of presenting issues in public or private mental health settings, there are few practical guidelines for the flexible use of functional assessment in day-to-day outpatient clinical work. This workshop will provide clinicians with an introduction to the core elements of functional assessment and case conceptualisation, and demonstrate practical skills for applying these processes to a broad range of real-world presenting issues. As these skills are core to all third wave therapies, the workshop will be of relevance not only to ACT therapists, but also to practitioners of DBT, FAP, BA, CFT, CBA, and other contextual models. The central goal of this clinically focused workshop is to assist participants to “think functionally” in the therapy room so that functional analysis can serve as a guide at all stages of assessment and treatment. These skills will assist clinicians to adopt a more individualised approach to assessment, and to tailor interventions with greater precision.
Learning Objectives
This series of 4 webinars will take a deep dive into functional analysis, and will cover:
An introduction to the core concepts of functional analysis
Using functional analysis in any clinical context
Incorporating both “in-session” and “out-of-session” behaviour into functional analysis
Incorporating verbal behaviour into functional analysis
Using process-based functional analysis and functional network diagrams as a contemporary alternative to assessment and case conceptualisation
Using functional analysis to tailor interventions with precision at both a macro and micro level
No prior knowledge of functional analysis is necessary for these webinars.