This training will provide a theoretical foundation and technical instruction for the practice of mindfulness meditation. This technique will serve as the basic practice for the duration of the program, and this course provides the Buddhist philosophical context to understand and effectively apply mindfulness meditation in clinical context.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 09/05/2017This training will provide a theoretical foundation for classical Buddhist Psychology and the traditional formulaic medical model known as the Four Noble Truths:
This foundation provides the philosophical context to understand and apply contemplative methodologies in clinical context.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 09/05/2017This training presents how mental illness and optimal health are defined and achieved in Buddhist psychology as well as what recent developments in stress research, neuroscience and learning theory reveal about the role various meditations can play in facilitating healing, neuroplasticity and psychological development.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 09/12/2013This training introduces the historical context and development of Buddhist thought and practice as it evolves from India into East Asia and Tibet. Contextualized within the pre-Buddhist Vedic culture of India, leading expert Robert Thurman reviews the central tenants and the associated texts and ideals that define three major phases of the philosophical evolution of Buddhism, namely the Individual Vehicle of renunciation and monasticism, the Universal Vehicle of love and compassion and the Diamond Vehicle of the tantras.
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Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 09/19/2013This lecture examines the nature of mind, how it functions and leads to affliction, the relationship between mind and external reality, the mental factors that arise in the mind and how students and clients can relate to them more effectively. These insights serve as necessary precursor to applying contemplative theory and methods in psychotherapy.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 09/21/2017This lecture reviews the causal relationship between past trauma, current perceptions and actions, and future subjective experience through an interdisciplinary lens of Buddhist psychology, trauma research and neuroscience. This theory offers a framework for understanding the experience of clients in clinical context as well as empowering them to intervene in their personal process.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 09/28/2017This presentation will provide the basis for understanding the nature of mind and the practice of cultivating metacognitive awareness of mental functions in the psychology of mindfulness. Based on that understanding, the clinical application of metacognitive awareness practice to support metacognitive insight will be reviewed in the context of both classical mindfulness practice and current mindfulness-based contemplative psychotherapy.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 10/05/2017This training explores the philosophical concept of selflessness as related to the Buddha’s Third Noble Truth, clarifies inaccuracies in translation and view, discusses ego and egolessness from a inter-disciplinary, cross-cultural lens, glimpses selflessness experientially through meditation and discuss its implications for psychotherapy and healing.
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Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 11/07/2013This training provides the theoretical foundation for understanding the therapeutic approach in Buddhist psychology, specifically the comprehensive treatment and extinction of mental affliction through the Eightfold Path. This course considers how clients world-view and lifestyle are important considerations in their overall health-care and transformation. Taught by expert Emily Wolf this content is based on a significant array of empirical, theoretical, and expert consensus literature.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
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This presentation will provide a general overview of current evolutionary and network models of the human brain, introducing neuroplasticity as the science behind mental illness, health, and treatment. Based on that overview, it will survey the role chronic stress and trauma have in the neurophysiology of a wide range of mind/body disorders including anxiety, depression, PTSD, heart disease, metabolic disorders, and cancer, while laying the groundwork for understanding the neuroplastic mechanisms of therapeutic practices like psychotherapy and meditation.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 10/26/2017This presentation will elucidate the basis for stress-reduction and the neural integration of social cognition, prosocial emotion and social behavior in the integrative brain structures and networks that evolved during the mammalian transition. It will explain the evidence for the mechanisms and benefits of contemplative practices like mindfulness, compassion training, imagery, recitation, posture and breath-control in terms of the use-dependent neuroplastic growth of integrative structures and networks including the “smart vagal” social engagement system based in the brainstem.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 11/02/2017This training presents the neurological correlates of mindfulness meditation, how to counter-balance the evolutionary negativity bias, and the clinical application of self-regulatory practices to establish optimal wellbeing.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 10/11/2013This training surveys the history, clinical research and neurological correlates of compassion-based meditation methods as well as anticipates future trends in the scientific study of meditation. The lecture is designed to provide health-care providers the confidence to justify and support the clinical application of compassion-based methods, treating less as religious practice and more as skill training for inherent human capacities for prosocial emotions.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
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This training provides a historical survey of several of the major mindfulness-based clinical interventions including mindfulness-based stress reduction MBSR, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP). The presentation identifies the psychological mechanism of change that underlie clinical applications of mindfulness to empower clinicians in effective use of these methods.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 12/03/2015This training provides the theoretical and clinical applications of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Based on the application of functional contextualism to language and cognition, ACT incorporates many different techniques in the service of promoting psychological flexibility. Expert Jon Kaplan identifies the core processes of ACT, including: cognitive defusion, acceptance, mindfulness, perspective-taking, values, and committed action.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 01/19/2014This training provides an overview of the principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with an emphasis on the role that mindfulness skills play in the overall treatment strategy. Students will gain a general knowledge of the various components of DBT treatment and why it is considered the gold-standard of treatment for emotional disregulation disorders. Clinical examples will be offered and students will have an opportunity to discuss how DBT skills might be utilized with patients they are currently seeing.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 01/23/2014This presentation will introduce the interpersonal neurobiology behind the embodied social emotional intimacy of parent-child dyads, couples and families. Based on that neurobiology and the differential effects of chronic stress and trauma versus secure attachment and belonging on brain development, it explains the theory and practice behind applying mindfulness and self-compassion to reduce stress, heal trauma and promote social engagement in couples therapy and family therapy.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 01/16/2014This training explores how mindfulness meditation can benefit teenagers in coping with stress, including how to adapt, clinically apply and make meditation accessible to young people who are living in challenging circumstances.
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Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 01/28/2016This training offers a cultural critique of the attitude towards and methodology of working with death and dying pervasive in modern, industrialized medicine and health-care. It offers an alternative paradigm based of mindfulness and spiritual values that can be applied in clinical context.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 02/04/2016This presentation will introduce the basic neuropsychology of trauma as the extreme case of stress-reactivity and aversive conditioning, and link its treatment resistant pathology to the brain’s default negativity bias and survival wiring. Based on this neuropsychology, it will elucidate how mindfulness and self-compassion help stop stress-reactivity and promote the metacognitive insight needed to decondition reactive perception, metabolize traumatic affect, and reconsolidate traumatic memories.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 02/11/2016This training provides an overview of Interpersonal Neurobiology developed by Dan Siegel, MD, which reviews and integrates basic neuroscience, attachment theory, trauma research, affect regulation, mindfulness and psychotherapy. Specific attention is paid to the role and application of mindfulness meditation in psychotherapy to improve patients health and wellbeing.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 11/16/2017This training provides practical considerations and recommendations for professionals desiring to integrate mindfulness meditation into their clinical work. What makes a client suitable, what makes a therapist prepared and competent to teach, and what are some considerations for incorporating a meditation technique within the clinical session?
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Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 01/14/2016This training provides theories, practices and clinical considerations for clinicians and health-care professionals who integrate mindfulness practice into their professional work.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 02/25/2016The training provides an experientially focused introduction to loving-kindness meditation in the context of training in the Four Boundless Emotions (Brahmaviharas) love, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Taught by expert Sharon Salzberg.
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Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 12/05/2013This training provides an overview of the theory, practice, and science of self-compassion, its relationship with mindfulness meditation and how it is integrated into clinical work for the benefit of both client and health-care provider.
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Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 04/14/2016This training provides an overview of the integration of Buddhist philosophy and meditation with the Western psychoanalytic tradition. Expert Jeffrey Rubin shares his unique synthesis called Meditative Psychotherapy including three core facets: stereophonic listening, understanding meaning, and liberated intimacy and illustrate how they are clinically applied using case examples.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 03/03/2016This training provides an overview of the practical applications, benefits and clinical considerations of Meditative Psychotherapy applied in therapeutic context.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 03/10/2016This training provides a theoretical foundation for understanding and managing transference and countertransference issues in contemplative psychotherapy.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 03/17/2016This training provides a theoretical foundation for understanding the role of intersubjectivity in Buddhism and psychoanalysis as well as how to leverage interpersonal dynamics for optimal metal health in contemplative psychotherapy.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 03/31/2016This training provides an overview of the concept of spiritual bypassing, including its underlying motivations, various presentations in clinical setting, and therapeutic methods for working with it in clinical context.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 05/05/2016This presentation will explain the psychology and ethics of mindful caregiving in light of attachment theory and polyvagal theory, as based on the capacity to maintain unconditionally caring presence within oneself and to sustain and share that presence with clients. Given this basis, it will illustrate the clinical application of mindfulness and compassion as trainings that help clinicians embody radical acceptance, unbiased empathy, and unconditional love, drawing on clinical case material. Taught by expert Joe Loizzo, MD, PhD this content is based on a significant array of empirical, theoretical, and expert consensus literature.
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Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Case Managers Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Addiction Counselors, Mental Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
Copyright : 04/21/2016No video lecture. Please use this time to work on your final Capstone Project.
Copyright : 12/12/2018