Mindfulness in Clinical Practice
Mindfulness in Clinical Practice
In a world filled with uncertainty, mindfulness is an increasingly sought-after treatment. It’s crucial that practitioners are drawing on an evidence base. This course is ideal for health practitioners across a range of settings – including allied, clinical and educational – seeking the skills and confidence to offer clinical mindfulness…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
In a world filled with uncertainty, mindfulness is an increasingly sought-after treatment. It’s crucial that practitioners are drawing on an evidence base. This course is ideal for health practitioners across a range of settings – including allied, clinical and educational – seeking the skills and confidence to offer clinical mindfulness practices to clients or patients and ensure their knowledge is backed by the latest research. Learning is aligned with industry standards and registration frameworks of groups including the Australian Psychology Society and the Australian Clinical Psychology Association. Explore clinical mindfulness techniques, applications and research: Gain a strong grounding in mindfulness and clinical mindfulness techniques and applications, and explore their efficacy. Integrate and understand theoretical and practical aspects of mindfulness, its benefits, and its relationship to research. Understand how mindfulness influences behaviour change: Develop your understanding of how clinical mindfulness relates to client self-knowledge, wellbeing and behaviour change. Draw on research and evidence to decide when it’s appropriate to use mindfulness as an intervention to support mental health. Apply clinical mindfulness techniques: Reference underlying theory to identify how to appropriately select and apply mindfulness activities with your clients. Put your knowledge into practice by preparing for a clinical mindfulness session with a patient or client, and explain your approach.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of clinical mindfulness tools and techniques and how to implement them in your own practice. You’ll be able to: Integrate and understand theoretical and practical aspects of mindfulness, its benefits, appropriate applications and relationship to research evidence; Integrate and understand how clinical mindfulness relates to client self-knowledge, wellbeing and behaviour change; Select and apply clinical mindfulness techniques based on underlying theory and appropriate applications for conducting mindfulness activities with clients.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
