Level 1 Functional Analytic Psychotherapy 8-weeks Intensive - Online training (4)

This workshop introduces Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), a third-wave therapeutic approach that brings functional analysis into the therapeutic relationship. FAP’s proposed mechanism of action is using genuine therapist responses to contingently respond to problematic client behaviour as it occurs in session. Training in FAP helps clinicians identify functional classes of behaviours as treatment targets, maximize the benefits of the therapeutic alliance to help clients regulate and build new repertoires when faced with difficulties. While FAP is an effective therapeutic modality on its own, practitioners can also integrate its lessons into other modalities. Over the course of this workshop, we will work with participants to assess psychological problems using the FAP model. Participants will learn how to identify clinically relevant behaviours, enhance rapport through a process of reciprocal exchanges of vulnerability and responsiveness, and evoke and reinforce more adaptive behaviours in session through interpersonal reinforcers such as empathy, statements of caring,…