Values Clarification: An ACT Tool for Figuring Out What Matters

  • 1.75HOURS

    Course duration

  • 1.75 CE HOURS

    Continuing education

  • 54 USD

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    Who is this for:
    Clinicians at all levels of training who are interested in integrating values clarification work into psychotherapy.

    Instructional Level:
    Beginner to Intermediate

    Why You’ll Love this Course:
    We all know values are important, though it’s not always clear how and when to bring them into our therapeutic work. This course will provide you with concrete tools to increase your patients’ ability to identify, connect to, and act from what brings them meaning, fulfillment, and purpose in their lives.

    Course description:
    While any effective psychological treatment considers and integrates patient values, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has explicitly incorporated identifying and clarifying values into the psychotherapy model. This functions to help individuals change their behavior in ways that align with what brings them meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. Values clarification is a powerful tool in not only helping patients to connect with who they are, but also in providing concrete strategies to help make changes that they themselves have defined as important to creating the lives they want to live.

    This course provides practical instruction in the process of values clarification. This may be particularly useful with patients who struggle with the following:
    • getting “unstuck” from unworkable patterns of behavior
    • rule governed behaviors
    • avoidance
    • feeling aimless or lost in their lives
    • disconnection from a sense of meaning, purpose or fulfillment


    While this course is rooted in an ACT framework, participants from all theoretical orientations can apply the knowledge presented in this course to their own work. Specific knowledge of ACT is not required.

    Featuring:
    • “Values Clarification Worksheet” Handout and in-course values clarification experiential practice
    • Values psychoeducation skills demonstration (e.g., drawing values as directions)

    Educational Objectives: 
    By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
    1. Apply at least two psychoeducation tools to increase patient knowledge and understanding about the importance of values.
    2. Utilize at least four client values to target rigid behaviors and beliefs, avoidance, a sense of aimlessness in one’s life, and disconnection.
    3. Apply at least two practical tools to clarify values and use these to shape patients towards using committed actions.

      Nikki Rubin, Psy.D.

      Clinical Psychologist
      Co-founder
      Chief Operating Officer (COO)
      Nikki Rubin, Psy.D. is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of MindScience Collective. She is a licensed clinical psychologist (CA PSY30047, NY 019595) who specializes in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and third-wave cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT). She has particular expertise in the treatment of OCD and anxiety disorders, depressive disorders, ADHD, perfectionism, and grief and loss.

      Dr. Rubin is the owner of Nikki Rubin, Psy.D., A Psychological Corporation, providing evidence-based treatments for adults, along with supervision, consultation, and private practice coaching for clinicians. She is passionate about mentorship for mental health clinicians, and thus serves as an Associate Clinical Professor at UCLA, training doctoral students in ACT. She is also the creator of The Complete Private Practice Toolkit, an educational course designed to help clinicians start or enhance their private practices.

      In addition to her clinical and academic work, Dr. Rubin serves as a Clinical Advisor at Psych Hub, where she lends her expertise to advancing the company’s mission of expanding access to evidence-based behavioral health education, resources, and pathways to care. Lastly, along with MindScience Collective co-founder Peter Economou, Ph.D., she co-hosts When East Meets West, a podcast exploring the intersection of eastern spiritual practices and western behavioral science, further reflecting her commitment to innovative and integrative approaches to mental health care.
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      Disclosures:
      Dr. Rubin is a co-founder of MindScience Collective and will receive financial benefit from all course sales.

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