Diploma of Specialization in Third Generation Contextual Therapies

Competencies

Basic Competencies

– Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.

– Students will be able to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.

– Students should be able to integrate knowledge and address the complexity of making judgments based on information that, while incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgments.

– Students should be able to communicate their conclusions, the knowledge and underlying reasons behind them, to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.

– That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a manner that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.

General Competencies
  • Listening and response discrimination skills.
  • Fluency skills, repertoire and verbal competence.
  • Connection-empathy skills.
  • Skills training that helps clients develop openness, willingness, and acceptance of their private events.
  • Development of therapeutic skills to make the therapy space a place of acceptance and change.
  • Theoretical and practical mastery of the principles that support each therapy.
  • Developing skills to help the client and therapist stay in touch with the present moment.
  • Skills to discriminate and self-regulate one's own response in the therapeutic space.

Specific competencies

Specific competencies of Conceptual bases of contextual therapies:

  1. To deepen the knowledge of the theoretical and philosophical bases of contextual therapies.
  2. To understand the different waves of psychological therapies that have emerged and their contributions to psychology.
  3. Understand the contribution of language studies from the perspective of Relational Frame Theory and its clinical significance.
  4. Know the specific concepts and dimensions of contextual intervention and its functionality.
  5. Know the therapist's own position and functionality in contextual therapies.

Specific competencies of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT):

  1. Understand the role of language, self-awareness, and perspective-taking among the key principles of the theoretical and clinical application of ACT.
  2. Competence in opening oneself to the moment-to-moment experience of therapy, perceiving personal barriers that emerge and acting flexibly in response to them.
  3. Competence in applying ACT procedures.
  4. Know how to apply a functional approach to different symptoms.

Specific competencies of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP):

  1. Delve into the technical principles and specific concepts of the FAP.
  2. To delve deeper into the behavioral principles that underpin the various techniques used in FAP.
  3. Know when its application is recommended and when it is not recommended.
  4. Ability to discriminate between different Clinically Relevant Behaviors.
  5. Skill with the Five Therapeutic Rules.

Specific competencies in New Therapeutic Developments:

  1. Management of the skills specific to Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
  2. Management of the skills specific to Jacobson's Comprehensive Couple Therapy.
  3. Management of the skills specific to Behavior Analysis applied to children and adolescents (ABA).

Specific Mindfulness Competencies:

  1. Development of body awareness.
  2. Development of emotional regulation.
  3. Managing cognitive decentering.
  4. Managing personal harmonization.

Specific Case Supervision Competencies:

  1. Competence in the application of the Contextual Therapies studied.
  2. Competence in the management of trained therapeutic skills.
  3. Competence in discriminating the therapist's and client's behavior in session.
  4. Flexibility of the therapist in the face of his or her own discomfort in a session within a context of value.

Specific skills for the Expert Final Project:

  1. Development of research in the field of contextual therapies.
  2. Skills for writing a scientific report.
  3. Oral communication skills.
  • Contact information
  • Astrophysicist Francisco Sánchez, SN. Calabaza Building - AN.2D P.O. Box 456 38200 San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
  • (+34) 922 31 79 00 / 95 38
  • tpropios@ull.es