Are you like many other frustrated clinicians,wanting to incorporate mindfulness into your therapy practice but struggling to do so? All around you are mindfulness articles and workshops that are ineffective to give you concrete, practical skills to help your clients.
Take action today! An emerging evidence-based approach, called Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) has proven effectiveness!
In this new experiential certificate workshop, immerse yourself in the entire MBCT curriculum, an 8 session structured program that combines mindfulness and cognitive therapy techniques. MBCT is evidenced based, and is an advanced clinical version of the popular Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
Expert trainer Dr. Richard Sears will personally guide you step by step through core competencies of MBCT with passion, humor, and wisdom from his 30 years of teaching mindfulness. He will show you proven strategies for a wide range of psychological disorders, including:
PTSD
Anxiety
Chronic pain
Addictions
Depression
And MORE!
Add this treatment approach to your toolbox to use with individual clients or group therapy! No stressing, just follow the 8 sessions laid out in this workshop!!
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General Credits
This course is available for 11.75 total CPDs.
The HPCSA has declared that any on-line courses CPD/CEU credited by a certified US board, is automatically CPD/CEU credited in South Africa.
As there are different boards for different disciplines, we at Acacia suggest that you use the Counselling CPD/CEU credits. These correspond to South African credits of one CPD/CEU per 60 minutes. If you choose to use your discipline's credits, please do so at your discretion.
Florida Social Workers
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 12.5 continuing education credits.
Richard W. Sears, PsyD, Ph.D., MBA, ABPP, has given hundreds of workshops on and ACT all around the world. He is a board-certified clinical psychologist in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he runs a private therapy and consultation practice, and is Director of the Center for Clinical Mindfulness & Meditation. He holds several academic appointments, including the Department of Clinical Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences with the UC College of Medicine. Dr. Sears is also a psychologist contractor with the Cincinnati VA Medical Center and with Alliance Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Sears is author of over a dozen books, including ACT with Anxiety; The CBT & Mindfulness Toolbox and Mindfulness: Living Through Challenges and Enriching Your Life. He is also a sixth-degree black belt in Ninjutsu, and once served as a personal protection agent for the Dalai Lama of Tibet. He has a PhD in Buddhist Studies, and received ordination in three traditions, as well as recognition as a Zen master.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Richard Sears maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with the University of Cincinnati, Alliance Integrative Medicine, and Wright State University School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Sears receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Richard Sears is the director of the Center for Clinical Mindfulness and Meditation. He has professional affiliations with the American Board of Professional Psychology, the Academy of the American Board of Clinical Psychology, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences, and the Cincinnati Academy of Professional Psychology.
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Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)
Access never expires for this product.
Target Audience
Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals
Outline
Competencies of MBCT
Foundations of MBCT
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Original MBCT trials
Evidence base for MBCT
Neurological evidence
Principles
Adaptation and expansion of CBT principles
Decenter from strong and persistent negative thoughts
Leading mindfulness exercises skillfully
Mindful inquiry
MBCT Curriculum & Core Therapeutic Tasks
Session 1: Awareness and Automatic Pilot
Raisin exercise - distinguish thinking and feeling
Body scan - foundation to build attention
Mindfulness of daily activities
Session 2: Living in Our Heads
ABC model for linking thoughts and emotions
Pleasant events calendar to foster attention to the positive
Mindful breathing for stress and focus
Session 3: Gather the Scattered Mind
Mindful stretching for working with discomfort
Mindful walking for dynamic mindfulness
Unpleasant events calendar to relate differently to difficulty
3-Minute breathing space
Session 4: Recognize Aversion
Mindfulness of breath, body, sounds to deepen awareness
Working with difficulties without struggle
Session 5: Allow/Let Be
Exposure to difficult thoughts and feelings to transform them
Notice thoughts without getting lost in them
Session 6: Thoughts are Not Facts
Purposefully exposing to strong thoughts and feelings
Techniques for working wisely with difficult thoughts
Session 7: How Can I Best Take Care of Myself?
Recognize relapse signatures to prevent future problems
Develop self-care action plans
Session 8: Maintaining and Extending New Learning
Personalize mindfulness practices for individual clients
Maintain momentum of positive gains
Clinical Issues – Advanced Strategies for Working with Challenging Clients
Adaptations of MBCT for
Depression
Stress
Anxiety
Chronic Pain
PTSD
Substance Use Disorders
Children & Adolescents
Evaluations and Dissemination
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.
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Additional Participant CE
Additional Participant CE must be purchased for each additional viewer. These viewers will watch the video with the main registrant, but will have individual access to course handouts and certification. The standard price of this program includes certification for main viewer.