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Digital Seminar

100 Brain-Changing Mindfulness Techniques to Integrate Into Your Clinical Practice

Faculty:
Debra Burdick, LCSW
Duration:
5 Hours 56 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Jul 15, 2016
Product Code:
POS047070
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.
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Description

  • Become more effective in treating anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, sleep and pain by incorporating mindfulness skills with evidence-based treatments
  • First session strategies for anxiety - calm your clients with mindfulness interventions you can teach on their very first day of treatment!
  • Implement a 4-step process to integrate Mindfulness into your practice

Enhance your treatment plans for anxiety, depression, ADHD, OCD, bipolar disorder, sleep, pain, and stress with brain-changing mindfulness skills tailored to the problems your clients face each day.
Watch this workshop and get detailed guidance on the hows, whys, and whens of incorporating core and advanced mindfulness skills into your clinical practice. Build your client education skills and improve therapeutic engagement with clear explanations regarding the neurobiology behind mindfulness. Interactive demonstrations and step-by-step instruction on specific interventions and exercises will give you the tools you need to treat a variety of disorders and populations. And the opportunity to practice under the direction of our instructor will boost your confidence in using your new skills. Better still, you’ll walk away with a four-step process that ties it all together, making what you’ve learned immediately relevant to your own work with clients.

Credits

Handouts

File type File name Number of pages
PDF Manual (2.02 MB) 147 Pages Available after Purchase

Faculty

Debra Burdick, LCSW's Profile

Debra Burdick, LCSW Related seminars and products

Debra Burdick, LCSW, also known as “The Brain Lady”, is an award-winning, best-selling author and international speaker with over 25 years of experience in psychotherapy and neurotherapy. Debra specializes in mindfulness, ADHD, depression, anxiety, stress, chronic illness, chronic pain, and sleep.

She is the author of The Psychotherapy Toolbox for Chronic Illness and Chronic Pain. Debra originally created skills to help those with chronic pain and illness while managing her own chronic illness and chronic pain (thankfully now healed). As a psychotherapist and neurotherapist – and through extensive study with leading experts in the field – she further developed and taught these skills in her private practice and in an intensive outpatient program serving adults with physical or mental illness.

She also designed and facilitated groups for clients with chronic physical illness and presented a workshop for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) titled Psychotherapy for the Physically Ill Client.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Debra Burdick is the owner of The Brain Lady. She receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Burdick contributes to SelfGrowth.com.

 

Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.

Target Audience

Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, and other Mental Health Professionals

Objectives

  1. Motivate clients to engage in treatment with understandable psychoeducational explanations regarding the research and practices associated with mindfulness.
  2. Formulate treatment plans for anxiety that include mindfulness techniques that can be used to regulate the client’s arousal state.
  3. Integrate mindfulness interventions into therapy that can help depressed clients manage negative thoughts and reduce the risk of relapse.
  4. Articulate how mindfulness training can be used as an adjunctive therapy with evidence-based treatment to enhance attention in clients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  5. Communicate how mindfulness-based approaches can help clients observe internal reactions and establish how this information can be used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress symptoms.
  6. Instruct clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) on the utilization of mindfulness skills that can facilitate disengagement from repetitive thoughts.

Outline

From Mindfulness

  • What is Neuroplasticity and why do we care?
  • Cutting edge research that proves
  • Mindfulness changes the brain for specific disorders

Clinical Application of Mindfulness Strategies to Specific Disorders

  • Anxiety
    • Calm the arousal state and relax mind and body
    • Reduce anxious thoughts
    • Focus on the present
  • Depression
    • Notice and decrease negative thoughts
    • Shift and improve mood state
    • Increase pleasure
  • PTSD
    • Notice and calm the arousal state
    • Improve ability to stay grounded in the present
    • Reduce traumatic thoughts
  • Panic
    • Abort and prevent panic attacks
    • Reduce frequency and intensity of panic attacks
  • Bipolar Disorder
    • Increase awareness of mood state
    • Stabilize mood over time
  • OCD
    • Increase awareness of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors
    • Decrease obsessional thinking and compulsions
  • ADHD
    • Improve concentration
    • Increase task completion
    • Reduce hyperactivity
  • Stress
    • Calm the arousal state
    • Lower the stress response
  • Anger
    • Increase awareness of thoughts, emotions and physical body
    • Manage anger
    • Reduce intensity and frequency of anger
  • Pain
    • Accept and embrace the pain
    • Relax around the pain
    • Distract from pain
    • Remember wellness
  • Sleep
    • Calm busy thoughts
    • Relax the mind and body
    • Fall asleep and stay asleep

 

How to Integrate Mindfulness into Clinical Practice

  • Introduce Mindfulness to Clients
  • How to do the exercises with your client
  • Techniques to increase client use of
  • Mindfulness at home
  • Strategies for processing what happens with your client
  • Strategies to identify and overcome obstacles and resistance

Reviews

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Overall:      4.8

Total Reviews: 40

Comments

Johanne A - Ewing, New Jersey

"I was so pleased and grateful to have the opportunity to learn from the author of one of my favorite resource manuals that I use with my kids in my practice. It was wonderful to hear her explain and organize each skill. Thank you, Debra! Namaste"

Michelle S - West Rutland, Vermont

"What an amazing seminar. I plan to listen to this again."

Pamela J H - HARTFORD, Kentucky

"very, very useful!! LOVE the handouts I can use in practice right away! "

FATMAH H - Jeddah, AA

"Many thanks to PESI for the beautiful and useful courses "

Frances J - Dallas

"Awesome seminar. Very interesting and useful for practice. Thank you. The Mobile App helped with mobile viewing and was used very frequently. "

Fran G - Jamaica Plain

"The course was excellent. "

Daniel C - Willoughby, Ohio

"Overall, good class with good information"

Rita O - MACOMB, Illinois

"Excellent program."

Nora S - KIRTLAND, Ohio

"This was an excellent presentation. I will implement these techniques in my own life and practice. "

Kelly L - NAPERVILLE, Illinois

"Loved this seminar-it provided so much information I can use in practice."

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