Course Description

*This complete Online Course includes a PDF of the book, Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, and the Final Exam. If you have access to the book and want to purchase the Final Exam only, click here.

This program explores the many therapeutic applications of mindfulness in one’s practice. Discussed are mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy; the utilization of mindfulness in acceptance and commitment therapy and dialectical behavior therapy; applying mindfulness techniques to relapse prevention, smoking cessation, and eating disorders; using mindfulness in inpatient settings; individual approaches to using mindfulness; and how to incorporate mindfulness practices into couples, child, adolescent and geriatric therapy.

15 CE credits/hours, 150 questions


Target Audience

Psychologists | School Psychologists | Marriage & Family Therapists | Mental Health Counselors | Social Workers

Learning Level

Intermediate

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the concept of mindfulness.
  • Explain how mindfulness is used for stress reduction.
  • Describe how mindfulness is used in cognitive therapy.
  • Recognize how mindfulness is used in dialectical behavior therapy.
  • Discuss how mindfulness is used in acceptance and commitment therapy.
  • Use mindfulness in relapse prevention.
  • Apply mindfulness in smoking cessation.
  • Utilize mindfulness in treating eating disorders.
  • Present how mindfulness may be used in interventions within inpatient settings.
  • Delineate mindfulness with couples.
  • Explain how mindfulness may be used in therapeutic work with children and adolescents.
  • Identify how mindfulness may be used in geriatric populations.
  • Summarize individual approaches to using mindfulness.

Sections

  1. 1
    • Statement of Understanding (downloadable/printable)

  2. 2
    • PDF Book (downloadable/printable)

  3. 3
    • Final Exam Questions (downloadable/printable)

    • Final Exam

  4. 4
    • Evaluation Questionnaire

About the Authors