EP Reach-Out webinar – Using the youth Acceptance & Commitment Therapy model – ‘DNA-V’ – in schools to improve children’s mental health & wellbeing with Dr Duncan Gillard

This session provides a brief conceptual introduction to the youth model of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: DNA-V (Hayes & Ciarrochi, 2015) and to its use in schools to improve the mental health, wellbeing, resilience and social connection of children and young people. The workshop will explore how DNA-V can be used at Tier 1 (universal), Tier 2 (targeted) and Tier 3 (specialist/individualised) levels to support youth wellbeing in simple, practical, fun and powerful ways.

More about the presenter: Dr Duncan Gillard is a HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) registered Psychologist and an experienced ACT & DNA-V practitioner and trainer.
Duncan is the author of books including The Science of Children’s Wellbeing (2023) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for Dummies (2016) and of a wide range of peer-reviewed articles and chapters on the subjects of ACT and Contextual Psychological Science.
For the last 18 months, Duncan has been leading an NHS-England funded, ACT-based psychology service called Enable Inclusion Team (EIT), which is a service for children, young people, families and schools where young people are at risk of permanent exclusion or presenting as anxious around school attendance.
Duncan is the co-developer of the ACT-informed children’s wellbeing curriculum Connect PSHE, which is currently the only children’s wellbeing curriculum in the U.K. to have been successfully subject to a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) yielding positive wellbeing outcomes for children.