Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) offers a unique blend of two solid therapeutic approaches—Cognitive Therapy mindfulness Practice. These therapies are cutting-edge in evidence-based psychotherapy. They are effective in treating a variety of psychological disorders, including anxiety, depression, addiction, chronic pain, personality disorders, and other mental disorders. Your clients will learn to understand their mind, let go of judgmental, critical thinking and achieve inner stillness. This will help them to have a lasting mental and physical well-being.

Research using SPECT, PET, and MRI has shown positive structural and functional brain changes that are often permanent.

Stop recording this seminar and start immediately applying the best cognitive therapies and mindfulness methods. You will greatly enhance your treatment effectiveness and improve your clients’ lives.

objectIVES
Combine the principles with the practices of Cognitive Therapy Mindfulness Meditation and Mindfulness Meditation to Maximize Client Results
Use five Mindfulness Meditation techniques to treat your condition
Utilize six effective Cognitive Therapy Treatment options
Clients can be taught and understood the Eastern perspective on their mind, body, intellect, emotions, and Higher Self.
Use a structured MBCT strategy to avoid relapse into depression and addiction
To help with common conditions, expand your clinical skills as a practitioner

OUTLINE

Understanding Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Research, theory and practice of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
The roots of mindfulness meditation
Mindfulness approaches and cognitive techniques: How they work
Limiting beliefs
The distortion of thinking
A new way to think/experience things
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The Effects Of MBCT
Meditation’s neurophysiology
Neuroplasticity
Specific brain changes
Daily mindfulness practice
Positive identity changes from MBCT

Apply Cognitive Therapy Techniques
Countering techniques
Perceptual shifting
Paradoxical techniques
Conditioning techniques
Progressive image modification
Logical analysis

Mindfulness Meditation: What are the Specifics?
Mindfulness Practice—step-by-step
Posture
Breathing
How to deal with your thoughts and feelings
Develop non-resistance
Activating disengagement
Developing innocent awareness
Reduce the frame to present-to-moment awareness
Creating spaciousness
Five types of mindfulness meditation
Meditation practicum—Therapist’s personal practice of Mindfulness Meditation

Evidence-Based MBCT in Clinical Practice
Preparing clients for mindfulness practice
Evidence-based MBCT protocols are used for:
Panic and anxiety
Anger management
Chronic pain & physical disorders
Depression
Addiction

Beyond MBCT—Integrating MBCT with other Approaches
Mindfulness Plus—MBCT and other meditation techniques
Ayurvedic methods
Positive psychology
Case examples & treatment planning

ABOUT DAVID O’CONNELL, Ph.D.

David F. O’Connell, Ph.D. is a psychologist with Berkshire Psychiatric and Behavioral Health Services in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is a consultant at Caron Addiction Treatment Centers and LifeWorks of London, England. He also trains for the Rutland Center in Dublin, Ireland. He is the author or co-author of seven books about mental health and addictions treatment, including The Wisdom Way: Coping With Chronic Illness Through Spirituality: A 21 Day Program (in press).

David is a long-term meditator. His cognitive therapy work appears in Dual Disorders Essentials for Assessment & Treatment (Haworth). Cognitive Therapy Children and Adolescents: A Casebook for Clinical Practice (Guilford). His meditation works include Awakening The Spirit (Publish America), and Self Recovery: Treating Addictions with Transcendental Meditation (Harrington Park). He has appeared on National Public Radio and his ideas have appeared in articles in the New York Times and Men’s Health Magazine.
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