Full Course Description
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): Experiential Online Course
Program Information
Objectives
- Compile the underlying mechanisms that make mindfulness techniques effective for stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, pain, and addiction.
- Breakdown the role of thoughts in perpetuating symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression as it relates to ruminating thoughts and behaviors in clients.
- Describe the brain changes associated with mindfulness practice to explain to clients the scientific effectiveness of practicing mindfulness.
- Connect how mindfulness builds upon and refines the evidence-based principles of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
- Incorporate mindfulness practices into traditional CBT thought records to help alleviate clients of intrusive, obsessive compulsive thoughts.
- Utilize specific mindfulness-based techniques to help clients disengage from the narrative of negative thoughts and emotions.
- Organize the eight session structure used MBCT program in your own clinical setting.
- Differentiate between the group process in MBCT vs. CBT to avoid clients’ cycles of struggling with distressing thoughts and feelings.
- Practice guiding a client through a 3-minute mindfulness exercise to improve the consistency of conscious choices rather than automatic reactions when distressed.
- Explore the use of decentering skills with a client, in a session, in the reduction of worry and ruminations.
- Apply the three steps of the mindful inquiry process, after the mindfulness exercise is over, to help clients more quickly internalize the skills and attitudes that allows them let go of struggle and make conscious choices.
- Adapt the MBCT curriculum to different client populations, including children, as it relates to treatment considerations.
Copyright :
08/03/2018