Tamar Black, PhD | ACT for Treating Children

Mentally Flexible

My guest today is Tamar Black, Ph.D. Tamar is an educational and developmental psychologist in Melbourne, Australia. She has over 20 years of experience working with children, adolescents and parents. Tamar has extensive experience providing clinical supervision to early career and highly experienced psychologists. She also provides training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clinicians and teacher. Tamar is the author of ACT for Treating Children, which we will be discussing today.

Some of the topics we explore include:
- How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy first came into her life
- The important roles Russ Harris and Louise Hayes played in Tamar’s ACT development
- The process behind her new book ACT for Treating Children
- Some of the core differences when working with children in therapy
- Looking at the hexaflex through Tamar’s adapted “ACT Kidflex” model
- And how to use our own experience and psychological flexibility as an agent of change

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Tamar’s website: https://tamarblack.com.au/

ACT for Treating Children: https://www.amazon.com/ACT-Treating-Children-Acceptance-Commitment/dp/1684039762
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