Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Advanced Training for Clinicians

Description

Research has found that a new combination of meditation and cognitive therapy can help patients experiencing recurring depression. In four weekly sessions, and by practicing at home during the week, you learn the practice of mindfulness meditation and how to use it to help clients disentangle themselves from depressed mood and thinking.

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) also includes basic education about depression and several exercises from cognitive therapy that show the links between thinking and feeling and how best to look after yourself when depression threatens to overwhelm you. MBCT helps your client to see more clearly the patterns of the mind and to learn how to recognize when his/her mood is beginning to go down. It helps break the link between negative mood and the negative thinking that might normally have escalated into a relapse. Your client can develop the capacity to mindfully disengage from distressing mood and negative thoughts, and find that he/she can learn to stay in touch with the present moment, without having to ruminate about the past or agonize about the future.

The mindfulness approach is meant to enhance, not to compete with, whatever type of treatment your client may be receiving for depression, whether antidepressants or psychotherapy. MBCT differs from mindfulness meditation as it is normally taught by the way it integrates mindfulness practice into a psychological model of depression and depressive relapse and the way it uses specific exercises to bring mindfulness (and concentration) to bear in stressful situations.

Four Fridays, Feb. 29 to March 21, 2008, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Schedule

No class times listed. Please contact the instructor to schedule a session.

Pricing Details

$250 general, $225 Antioch alumni, faculty and students

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