Full Course Description
MBSR: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Intensive Online Course
Program Information
Target Audience
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Nurses, Case Managers, Other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Present the core beliefs of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as they relate to clinical treatment.
- Ascertain the meaning of mindfulness and provide psychoeducation to clients regarding its use for reducing stress and improving mental health.
- Implement various mindfulness practices utilized to decrease stress and improve symptomology.
- Teach clients how to integrate specific informal mindfulness interventions into their daily lives to alleviate symptoms and improve level of functioning.
- Utilize breathing exercises as an intervention to refocus attention and interrupt negative thoughts and ruminations.
- Practice the process of inquiry and evaluate its ability to enhance client insight and reduce stress.
- Articulate the effectiveness of MBSR techniques in treating pain, stress, anxiety and panic in clients.
- Evaluate the use of interpersonal mindfulness in facilitating effective communication and increasing awareness in the client.
- Appraise the applicability of neuroscience research to stress reduction and ascertain its clinical implications.
- Determine specific adaptations of MBSR practices that can be utilized to treat symptoms of anxiety, depression, addiction and trauma.
- Establish MBSR practices that are developmentally appropriate and effective for children and adolescents.
- Articulate the methods by which MBSR can be interfaced with psychotherapy practices to improve clinical outcomes.
Outline
Foundational Principles
- The Origin of MBSR
- Goals and Principles
- Populations Served
- Assessment and Orientation
- MBSR Ground Rules
- Teacher competencies
The Curriculum—Themes
- Class 1-3 Grounding Mindfulness in the Body
- Class 4-5 Stress Reaction versus Response
- Class 6-7 Communication and Interpersonal Mindfulness
- Class 8 Summation and Bringing Mindfulness Home
- All Day Session
Establishing Mindfulness Practices
- Defining Mindfulness
- Introducing Mindfulness Experientially and Verbally
- 7 Essential Attitudes in Establishing Mindfulness
Establishing Intention and Commitment to Practice
- Language —Using Gerunds and the Vernacular
- Leading an Awareness Exercise: The Raisin
Guidance in Formal Mindfulness Practices
- The Body Scan
- The Sitting Meditation with Awareness of Breath
- Yoga
- Walking Meditation
- Loving-Kindness Meditation
- Practice in Leading a Mindfulness
- Meditation
Applying Mindfulness to Daily Life Creating Home Practices
- Use of Homework
- The S.T.O.P.
- The Three Minute Breathing Space
- Awareness Exercises
Clinical Issues: Working with Difficulties
- The Process of Inquiry including Role
- Playing and Practice in Inquiry
- Working with Feeling
- Working with Pain and Stress
- Working with Anxiety and Panic
- Application of Neuro-Science Research
Adaptations of MBSR for:
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma
- Children and Adolescents
Inter-personal Mindfulness and Communication
- Akido for MBSR
- Use of Dyads
- Group Process
- Interface with Psychotherapy
Limitations of Research and Potential Risks
- Various definitions of mindfulness
- Research validity and reliability
- Client may experience initial increase in symptoms
- Special considerations for severe mental illness
Copyright :
06/16/2016
The Power of Mindfulness as Practice: Making It Real Right Now with Jon Kabat-Zinn
Objectives
- Discover how mindfulness practices can serve as a regular source of renewal and reinvigoration in your life
- Describe the benefits and possibilities of making the daily effort to tune the instrument of your awareness
- Examine the question, “What’s missing in the world that only I can complete?”
- Summarize mindfulness meditation from the inside out, as a way of being and a way of seeing
Outline
- Overview of mindfulness meditation from the inside out
- Learn how mindfulness can lead to renewal and reinvigoration in your life
- Explore mindfulness as a way of being and a way of seeing
- Experiencing meditation
- Discover the experience of not having to get someplace else
- Focus on living life as if it really mattered right now
- Discuss the question, “What’s missing in the world that only I can complete?”
- Concluding remarks from the presenter
- Techniques to use mindfulness within therapy sessions
- Taking mindfulness and heartfulness into daily life
Program Information
Target Audience
Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Discover how mindfulness practices can serve as a regular source of renewal and reinvigoration in your life
- Describe the benefits and possibilities of making the daily effort to tune the instrument of your awareness
- Examine the question, “What’s missing in the world that only I can complete?”
- Summarize mindfulness meditation from the inside out, as a way of being and a way of seeing
Outline
- Overview of mindfulness meditation from the inside out
- Learn how mindfulness can lead to renewal and reinvigoration in your life
- Explore mindfulness as a way of being and a way of seeing
- Experiencing meditation
- Discover the experience of not having to get someplace else
- Focus on living life as if it really mattered right now
- Discuss the question, “What’s missing in the world that only I can complete?”
- Concluding remarks from the presenter
- Techniques to use mindfulness within therapy sessions
- Taking mindfulness and heartfulness into daily life
Copyright :
03/27/2015