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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Certificate Course Experiential Workshop


Credit Available - See CEUs tab below.

Categories:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
Faculty:
Richard Sears, PsyD, PhD, MBA, ABPP
Duration:
11 Hours 38 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Original Program Date:
Mar 08, 2018
SKU:
POS049535
Media Type:
Online Learning - Also available: Online Learning


Description

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!!

CEUs


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. 



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Faculty

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Richard Sears, PsyD, PhD, MBA, ABPP, is a licensed psychologist in Cincinnati, Ohio, board certified in clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), runs a private psychology and consultation practice, and is the director of the Center for Clinical Mindfulness & Meditation. He has run hundreds of mindfulness groups and was lead clinician in the first brain scan study involving mindfulness with children and adolescents. He is also an adjunct professor in the University of Cincinnati psychology department, clinical research faculty at the UC Center for Integrative Health and Wellness, volunteer professor of psychiatry & behavioral neurosciences at the UC College of Medicine, and a former research/psychologist contractor with the Cincinnati VA Medical Center.

His most recent books include ACT with Anxiety (PESI); The ACT Flip Chart (PESI); Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness Toolbox (PESI); Mindfulness: Living Through Challenges and Enriching Your Life in the Moment (Wiley-Blackwell); Building Competence in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (Routledge); and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for PTSD (Wiley-Blackwell).

Dr. Sears is a sixth-degree black belt in Ninjutsu, and once served as a personal protection agent for the Dalai Lama with his teacher, Stephen K. Hayes. He has studied Eastern Wisdom for over 40 years, receiving ordination in three traditions, and transmission as a Zen master.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Richard Sears maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the University of Cincinnati, Alliance Integrative Medicine, and Wright State University. He receives compensation as a consultant. Dr. Sears receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Richard Sears is the founder and director of the Center for Clinical Mindfulness and Meditation and is a member of the American Board of Professional Psychology, the Academy of the American Board of Clinical Psychology, and the Association for Contextual Behavioral Sciences. He is a peer reviewer for Mindfulness and a book reviewer for John Wiley & Sons, Inc, and Routledge.


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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

  1. Compile the underlying mechanisms that make mindfulness techniques effective for stress, depression, anxiety, trauma, pain, and addiction.
  2. Breakdown the role of thoughts in perpetuating symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression as it relates to ruminating thoughts and behaviors in clients.
  3. Describe the brain changes associated with mindfulness practice to explain to clients the scientific effectiveness of practicing mindfulness.
  4. Connect how mindfulness builds upon and refines the evidence-based principles of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
  5. Incorporate mindfulness practices into traditional CBT thought records to help alleviate clients of intrusive, obsessive compulsive thoughts.
  6. Utilize specific mindfulness-based techniques to help clients disengage from the narrative of negative thoughts and emotions.
  7. Organize the eight session structure used MBCT program in your own clinical setting.
  8. Differentiate between the group process in MBCT vs. CBT to avoid clients’ cycles of struggling with distressing thoughts and feelings.
  9. Practice guiding a client through a 3-minute mindfulness exercise to improve the consistency of conscious choices rather than automatic reactions when distressed.
  10. Explore the use of decentering skills with a client, in a session, in the reduction of worry and ruminations.
  11. 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.
  12. Adapt the MBCT curriculum to different client populations, including children, as it relates to treatment considerations.

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