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Digital Seminar

Yoga & Mindfulness Meditation: Clinical Applications for Mind-Brain Change in Anxiety and Depression


Speaker:
C. Alexander and Annellen M. Simpkins, Ph.D.
Duration:
5 Hours 43 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Sep 13, 2012
Product Code:
POS042835
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

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  • Understand the neuroscience behind these evidence-based practices
  • Gain specific skills for healing anxiety and depression
  • Improve client outcomes for conquering mood disorders
  • Explain specific yoga and mindfulness practices and sequences to treat anxiety and depression
  • Learn special applications for the very young, the very old, and every age in between!

Each person has the potential to be happy and fulfilled. But problematic behaviors, thoughts, and feelings interfere. Yoga and mindfulness offer methods anyone can learn that clear the way for better functioning. How does meditation help? Two opposite things occur simultaneously: Mind and body become relaxed while attention and perception are enhanced. Contemporary neuroscience research has found this surprising dual effect in the brain. In addition, efficacy research shows these meditative methods to be tremendously healing for anxiety and depression.

With an ever-growing body of scientific support for the efficacy of yoga and mindfulness for therapy, you can confidently apply these techniques with your clients to help them let go of problems and uncover their healthy, happy nature. And you can learn a useful set of tools to use personally, for being less stressed and developing your own potentials even more fully.

You will come away from this seminar understanding why meditation is becoming so popular and how it can be used in your therapeutic work. The experiential training in meditation that is a vital part of this seminar will leave you feeling renewed, refreshed, and informed.

For over 35 years the Simpkins have taught these methods to thousands of people. They have put meditation into practice in their own lives, using meditative focus to help them write their many books. And with the feelings of well-being and compassion that yoga and mindfulness practice bring, they have reached out to inspire others to share in the warmth and wisdom of inner peace and fulfillment.

OUTLINE

Incorporating These Evidence-Based Practices

  • Follow the fascinating journey from discoveries to efficacy
  • Why does it work? Uncover the healing factors

Brief Tour Through the Brain: What Clinicians Need to Know

  • Review brain structures and functions
  • Learn how yoga and mindfulness rewire the brain

Opening New Frames of Reference

  • From great teachers
  • With key theories
  • And helpful practices

Therapeutic Meditations

  • Begin by building your meditative toolbox
  • Breathing meditations
  • Focus meditations: Mind and body
    • Narrowing focus
    • Broadening focus
  • Mindfulness methods
    • With body
    • With emotions
    • With thinking
    • Mindful now
  • Opening to Unconscious-Automatic Meditations
    • Letting go
    • Allowing
    • Accepting
    • Compassion

Bringing it All Together in Meditative Treatments

  • Principles for treatment: Integration & individualizing
  • Case examples
  • Mindfulness and yoga methods for depression
  • Mindfulness and yoga methods for anxiety
  • Special treatments for problems of seniors
  • Adapting methods for working with children

Personal Enhancement

  • Letting go of stress
  • Sharpening therapeutic sensitivities

OBJECTIVES

  • Describe key yoga and mindfulness efficacy research and current neuroscience findings.
  • Review brain structures, functions, and neuroplasticity, relevant for psychotherapists and then understand how yoga and mindfulness practices change the brain.
  • Summarize the rich cultural and philosophical traditions of yoga and mindfulness practices, and grasp how they alter thinking, emotions, and behavior toward compassion and self-acceptance.
  • Illustrate specific yoga and mindfulness interventions for anxiety and depression.
  • Outline how to modify these interventions for children and seniors.
  • Develop different skills with attention from different forms of meditation: focused, open, and unconscious-automatic.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

C. ALEXANDER SIMPKINS, PH.D. and ANNELLEN M. SIMPKINS, PH.D., are psychologists specializing in meditation, hypnotherapy, and neuroscience. The Simpkins are authors of 24 books, many of them bestsellers. Their most recent books are Meditation and Yoga in Psychotherapy: Techniques for Clinical Practice (Wiley, 2010), The Dao of Neuroscience (Norton, 2010), Meditation for Therapists and Their Clients (Norton 2009) and Neuro-Hypnosis (Norton, 2010). Their books have more than 20 foreign editions and have won numerous awards.

Dr.’s Simpkins have been practicing psychotherapy for more than three decades, and have taught their meditative and hypnotic methods to facilitate mind-brain change to people of all ages. They have been involved in neuroscience for more than a decade, and teach Tae Chun Do, a martial art that includes yoga mindfulness, meditation, and breathing to address mind, body and spirit. They present seminars at professional conferences, state mental hospitals, university campuses and to popular audiences and have appeared on radio programs throughout the United States and Canada. They have performed psychotherapy research and have met personally with psychotherapy masters, including Milton H. Erickson, Jerome D. Frank, Carl Rogers, Lawrence Kubie and Ernest Rossi. Their Eastern philosophy influence along with their commitment to continual learning and therapeutic effectiveness has helped them to look at things through the crystal of a unique vision, which they bring to you with warmth and clarity in their books and seminars.


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Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

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Social Workers - Canadian Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.25 (Clinical) continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level self-study course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Social Workers - Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.25 continuing education credits.


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Psychologists - Psychologists

This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: OS-03-036-1025. This activity meets the qualifications for 6.0 CEH's (continuing education hours).


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Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 7.6 self-study contact hours. Please email cepesi@pesi.com with your license number, include the title, speaker name and date. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


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PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 6.3 self-study continuing education credits.

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Pennsylvania Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

This intermediate activity is approved for 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please contact your licensing board to determine if they accept programs or providers approved by other national or state licensing boards. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to participants who are in full attendance and who complete the program evaluation.


California Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Licensed Educational Psychologists

The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the APA and the ASWB. Full participation in this self-study course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.


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Handouts/Brochure

Speaker

C. Alexander and Annellen M. Simpkins, Ph.D.'s Profile

C. Alexander and Annellen M. Simpkins, Ph.D. Related seminars and products

Co-Authors


C. Alexander Simpkins, Ph.D. & Annellen M. Simpkins, Ph.D, are psychologists specializing in neuroscience, psychotherapy, meditation and hypnosis. Drs. Simpkins have been practicing psychotherapy for more than three decades; and have been researching and practicing hypnotherapy and meditation for four decades, studying hypnosis under G. Wilson Shaffer, dean of Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Hopkins Counseling Center; hypnotherapy under Harold Greenwald, creator of Direct Decision Therapy; and indirect hypnosis with Milton H. Erickson and Ernest Rossi. They have taught their meditative and hypnotic methods to facilitate mind-brain change to people of all ages. Additionally, they have been involved in neuroscience for 15 years and have been integrating it into treatments and helping to bring the most recent research findings to practitioners. They present seminars at professional conferences, state mental hospitals, university campuses and to popular and professional audiences around the world.

The Simpkins are authors of 26 books, many of them bestsellers. Their most recent book is Yoga & Mindfulness Therapy Workbook for Clinicians and Clients (PESI, 2014). Drs. Simpkins have written many books on neuroscience such as, Neuroscience for Clinicians (Springer, 2012), The Dao of Neuroscience (Norton, 2010) and Neuro-Hypnosis (Norton 2010); as well as hypnosis titles: Self-Hypnosis for Women (Radiant Dolphin press, 2004), and Effective Self-Hypnosis with CD (Radiant Dolphin Press, 2000). Their books have over 20 foreign editions and have won numerous awards.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Charles A. Simpkins is in private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Charles A. Simpkins has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
 

Financial: Annellen Simpkins is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Annellen Simpkins has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Therapists, Other Mental Health Professionals, Nurses

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