Full Course Description

Week 1 - Introduction to the MBSR-T Program

An introduction to positive neuroplasticity and the connection to mindfulness.

Program Information

Target Audience

Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors, Case Managers, Teachers/Educators, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists and other Mental Health Professionals

Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Drop-in mindfulness practice
Turn positive experiences into lasting resources: HOT
Education on Neuroplasticity, Positive Neuroplasticity, and the connection to mindfulness

Key Adolescent-Specific Interventions

15 ways to take in the good: pull weeds and plant seeds
Basic needs
Self-care

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Oriented to the logistics of the course and how to use the online platform
Exploration of all of the course materials available

Objectives

Explore the recent advances in neuroscience, neuroplasticity, and mindfulness on the developing teenage brain and their clinical implications.

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Week 2 - Foundations of Stress & Mindfulness

The foundations and history of the MBSR-T program.

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Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Drop in mindfulness practice
MBSR and MBSRT compare and contrast
Foundations of MBSRT and structure of interventions
Mindfulness defined
3 stages of the mechanisms of change in MBSRT
Formal and informal mindfulness practices
3 pillars of mindfulness Intentionality, attention, and attitude

Key AdolescentSpecific Interventions

Teen’s mental health
Being a mindful instructor
Joining with teens & developmental adaptations
Cultural relevance

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Oriented to the logistics of the course and how to use the online platform
Exploration of MBSRT materials for teens

Objectives

Breakdown the foundational principles of MBSR-T as related to clinical treatment.
Construct the essential core components of the MBSR-T treatment program.

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Week 3 - MBSR-T Session 1

Examining and defining the foundations of stress. Providing an introduction to mindfulness and the research supporting MBSR-T.

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Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Current Status Assessment (Goals and Intentionality)
Define Mindfulness
Stress the Problem, Mindfulness a Solution
Mindfulness and the Five Senses
Mindful Eating; Taking a Mindful Bite
Dropping-In Mindfulness Practice
Understand the research evidence of mbsr-t

Key Adolescent- Specific Interventions

Instructor Introduction
Teen Dyad Introduction and Fun Fact
Defining And Understanding Teen Stress And Stressors
Life Stressors: What Is Stressing You Out?

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Introduction to the Course, Group Boundaries and Limits, Course Materials, and Practice Expectations

Objectives

Chart the evidence-based research on MBSR-T including latest studies and new directions and their clinical implications.
Connect adolescent-based stressors and the use of mindfulness-based practices for symptom management.
Analyze the efficacy and value of intentionality in MBSR-T.

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Week 4 - MBSR-T Session 2

Exploring the effects of stress on the mind and body. Beginning a personal mindfulness practice.

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Target Audience

Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Mindful Check-in (Highs and Lows, Mindful Qualities)
Types of Mindfulness Practice: Introduction of Formal Practice
Body Scan Mindfulness Practice and Debriefing
Paying Attention to the Five Senses During Practice
Developing a Personal Mindfulness Practice: The 5Ws

Key Adolescent-Specific Interventions

Physical and Emotional Effects of Stress (3Fs: Fight, Flight, or Freeze Response): Paying Attention to Red Flags
Mind-Body Connection (Acute and Chronic Stress)
Stress Can Be Helpful and Harmful (Yerkes-Dodson Curve): Eustress, Neustress, and Distress

Objectives

Employ the 4-step mindful check-in to better understand teen’s life problems and analyze it’s use and efficacy in the MBSR-T treatment program.
Develop the ability to debrief all formal mindfulness practices learned in MBSR-T in a clinical setting.
Implement the 5Ws (who, what, where, when, and why) in session to develop a personal mindfulness practice.

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Week 5 - MBSR-T Session 3

Developing and strengthening mindfulness practice. Learning how to increase present-moment awareness. A practice session is also included that focuses on the Body Scan Mindfulness Practices. Assistance on honing in on the skills involved in teaching these practices is discussed.

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Objectives

Devise mindfulness techniques that increase teen’s present moment functioning and improve client level of functioning.
Develop awareness and improve teens client’s recognition of thoughts and feelings during mindfulness practice in session.
Instruct teen clients on how to bring informal practices into their lives and how to connect informal practices to the five senses.
Establish a working knowledge of the basics behind leading formal mindfulness practices in MBSR-T to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.

Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Informal Practice: Bringing Mindfulness to Routine Tasks and Interests
Connecting Informal Practice to the Five senses
Living in the Now: Present- Moment Awareness
Paying Attention to Your Breath: Mindful Breathing Practice
Sitting Mindfulness Practice and Debriefing

Key Adolescent-Specific Interventions

Accepting Your Emotions: The Guest House Poem
Awareness of Thoughts and Feelings
Stress Waves: Riding the Waves of Life
Grounding Anchors: Drop Your Anchor
Railroad Activity: Train of Thoughts

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Mindful Check-In (Highs and Lows, Mindful Qualities)
Developing a Personal Mindfulness Practice

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Week 6 - MBSR-T Session 4

Cultivating self-care and beginning to take in the good. Facilitating awareness of positive experiences and pleasant moments.

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Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Mindful Walking and Movement Practice and Debriefing
Pleasant Moments Calendar
Heartfulness Mindfulness Practice and Debriefing

Key Adolescent- Specific Interventions

What Is Self-Care?
Cultivating Self-Care
Levels I-IV Self-Care Inventory
Taking in the Good: Doing What You Enjoy

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Mindful Check-In (Highs and Lows, Mindful Qualities)

Objectives

Analyze the efficacy of how the MBSR-T program assists teens to take in the good, create beneficial lasting resources, and develop fundamental human needs for safety, security, and connection.
Incorporate skills in session that teach teens the importance of, and ways to cultivate, self-care.
To improve client level of functioning, recommend and implement the heartfulness practice to send well-wishes and kind regards to all people, another, and to yourself.

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Week 7 - MBSR-T Session 5

Noticing, being, and working with thoughts. Facilitating awareness of negative experiences and unpleasant moments.

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Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Yoga and/or Mindful Movement Practice and Debriefing
Unpleasant Moments Calendar
Mindful Stopping: Responding Instead of Reacting

Key Adolescent- Specific Interventions

Noticing, Being, and Working with Thoughts: The Role of Metacognition
Being Mindful of Harmful Judgments
Playing Out the End of the Movie

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Dropping-In Mindfulness Practice
Mindful Check-In (Highs and Lows, Mindful Qualities)

Objectives

Educate your clients on how to utilize skills to increase awareness of their thoughts and judgments.
For purposes of client psychoeducation, explain how mindfulness creates a pause between a stimulus and response, which improves teen’s ability to respond to life’s problems rather than reacting.
Teach clients to separate life moments as: pleasant, neutral, or unpleasant; teach teens to be with all moments regardless of label.

Week 8 - MBSR-T Session 6

Improving awareness through mindfulness. Utilizing positive coping strategies and behaviors to manage life. Includes a practice session that focuses on instructor practice of the Sitting Mindfulness Practices. Assistance on honing in on the skills involved in teaching these practices is discussed.

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Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Sitting Mindfulness Practice (Longer) and Debriefing
Doing Homework or Taking a Test Mindful Practice

Key Adolescent- Specific Interventions

Life Events Can Cause Stress
Unhelpful and Harmful Coping Behaviors
Coping with Painful Events: Stress=Pain x Blocking
Tracking Harmful Behaviors: The Self-Awareness Calendar
Self-Harm Awareness Journal

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Mindful Check-In (Highs and Lows, Mindful Qualities)

Objectives

Educate your clients on how to use positive coping behaviors instead of negative coping behaviors, to manage stress and improve their level of functioning.
Provide teen client’s with calendars to improve awareness of pleasant and unpleasant moments, as well as to track self-harming behaviors.
Help your clients discover ways to be with painful events versus pushing away or clinging to the event or situation.
Experiment with interventions that can be used in teen client’s daily lives to facilitate maintenance and growth of the MBSR-T program.

Week 9 - MBSR-T Session 7

Cultivating mindful resilience. Building mindful relationships.

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Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Daily Gratitude Practice
Mindful Communication: Listening and Reflecting
MI-Messages: Sharing How You Feel
Mindful Communication in Relationships
Trust Exercise: Mindfulness in Relationships
Mindful Messaging and Posting

Key Adolescent- Specific Interventions

Things You Can’t Control
Courage to Change Practice
Letting Go Practice
Qualities of Self

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Dropping-in Mindfulness Practice
Mindful Check-In (Highs and Lows, Mindful Qualities)

Objectives

Investigate the role of the media, social networking, and the use of mindfulness practices on the development of the adolescent mind in order to inform clinical treatment interventions.
Evaluate treatment techniques to help clients build positive and beneficial relationships with the self and others- mindful communication, acceptance, trust, and letting-go.
Incorporate the use of MI-messages to assist teen clients with asserting themselves and in building self-respect and respect in cultivating healthy relationships.

Week 10 - MBSR-T Session 8

Reviewing the MBSR-T program. Assessing mindfulness-based solutions. Making mindfulness a continuing part of daily living.

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Outline

Key Mindfulness Interventions

Review of Mindfulness Practices and Key Interventions
Review of Current Status Assessment (Goals and Intentionality)
Problems and Mindful Solutions Chart
Mindful Practice Reminders
Maintaining and Continuing a Personal Mindfulness Practice
Gratitude Practice

Key Adolescent-Specific Interventions

Letter to Self
Processing Possible Grief and Loss

Key Interventions Not Otherwise Specified

Dropping-in Mindfulness Practice
Mindful Check-In (Highs and Lows, Mindful Qualities)

Objectives

Implement the curriculum in the MBSR-T program and be able to teach interventions from all of the 8-sessions to your clients.
Analyze the efficacy of conducting the dropping-in, body scan, sitting, walking, heartfulness and gratitude mindfulness practices.
Teach your clients how to maintain mindfulness practice and continue to use mindfulness in daily life.