# Event Details - **Event Name**: Whole Person Care Using Brief ACT: Diabetes & Chronic Pain - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am – Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 05:15 pm - **Event Description**: Whole Person Care Using Brief ACT to Address the Psychological Burden of Diabetes & Chronic Pain: A workshop by Patricia J Robinson, PhDAbout this EventMarch 27-28, 2026Instruction 10:00 am – 1:15pm Break for Lunch on Your Own Instruction 2:00 pm- 5:15 pm End of DayIn Person or Virtual and Remember to Purchase CE for 15$ if neededOVERVIEW:People struggling with long-term conditions, such as diabetes and chronic pain, often experience challenges to their mental, emotional, and social well-being. As many as 1 in 5 Americans are living with one of these two conditions, and, in an ideal world, they would be able to access care from a provider trained to address behavioral aspects of both their physical and psychological well-being.This 2-day hybrid workshop in Philadelphia introduces an approach that prepares healthcare workers to offer whole-person care in a brief format that can make services more readily available to people living with co-morbid medical and mental health problems. Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (or “FACT”) is a transdiagnostic, strength-based approach that targets function and planned experimentation to enhance psychological flexibility.LEARNING OBJECTIVES:Describe the Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Tool Kit.Define psychological flexibility.Use the FACT Pillars Assessment Tool to assess the relative strengths of a person on each of the three FACT pillars: open, aware, and engaged.Use the Four Square Assessment Tool to develop an understanding of a person’s behavioral responses to difficult life problems, such as diabetes or chronic pain.Use the Four Square Intervention Tool to identify possible interventions to enhance a person’s psychological flexibility in responding to a long-term condition.Describe how predictive coding theory supports use of “mindfulness of the body” interventions to enhance psychological flexibility.Offer a “mindfulness of the body” intervention to assist a person with developing a new world view, one that offers a way forward toward greater vitality.Use the Life Path to establish a metaphor to support on-going care for someone challenged by a long-term condition.Use the FACT Can Do Plan to enhance the quality of behavioral experiments developed in a FACT visit.List the four domains of the FACT Core Competency Tool.Set up a learning plan that supports on-going mastery of FACT in addressing the needs of people challenged by chronic conditions.Agenda?: 10:00 AM - 05:15 PMDay 1: FACT Tools for Assessment & Intervention Info: On day 1, participants will learn to use several important FACT tools for assessment and intervention. They will view a demonstration of how to use the Four Square Assessment (Four Square A) tool to develop an understanding of the function of behaviors related to coping with diagnosis and management of diabetes. They will use the Pillars Assessment Tool conceptualize strengths and needs related to a person’s overall level of psychological flexibility (PF). Then, they will observe use of the FACT Four Square Intervention (Four Square I) tool to select and attempt one or more interventions to enhance PF. The day will also include introduction of a FACT Tool kit to use in learning FACT during and after the workshop.?: 10:00 AM - 05:15 PMDay 2: Pain from a FACT Perspective Info: On day 2, participants will consider the problem of pain from a FACT perspective. A brief introduction to predictive coding theory will pave the way for a demonstration of an intervention that emphasizes mindfulness of the body and creation of a new perspective on pain. Participants will experiment with implementing the “mindfulness of the body” intervention in role plays. Later, participants will learn the Life Path intervention, a versatile FACT intervention that may be used in individual and group service formats. The day will conclude with the introduction of the FACT Core Competency Tool. This 17-item tool describes skills and knowledge areas that participants can assess and target in their on-going efforts to learn FACT and progress towards mastery. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chester/whole-person-care-using-brief-act-diabetes-and-chronic-pain/100001979803118422 - **Event Categories**: workshops, it, health-wellness, mental-health - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fwhole-person-care-using-brief-act-diabetes-chronic-pain-tickets-1979803118422 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 15, max: 300, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Chester - **state**: PA - **country**: United States - **location**: Widener University - **lat**: 39.8615555 - **long**: -75.3576496 - **full address**: Widener University, One University Place, Chester, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Pennsylvania Chapter: Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (https://allevents.in/org/pennsylvania-chapter-association-for-contextual-behavioral-science/27412037) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/1fbdbc637c8ea0caed76df46678116b4dd40eb1b1d2fd81fdb06b6d038bb0225-rimg-w1200-h600-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1769572936 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Whole+Person+Care+Using+Brief+ACT%3A+Diabetes+%26+Chronic+Pain&date=27+Mar ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? 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