PRPress Online Courses

*This selection is for the Final Exam only. Access to the book, Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, is required to complete the exam. If you already have access to the book, click the "Buy" button above to continue. To purchase the complete Online Course, which includes a PDF of the book, 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.