Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Executive Summary:

This course concentrates much more on Mindfulness than it does on CBT. So it explains why Mindfulness meditation is likely to help recurrently depressed people, looks briefly at the published evidence that confirms that it can, and the NICE guidelines that commend it, but spends most of the time in experiential exercises and in discussing those exercises. There is a small amount of lecture input, but listening to lectures on Mindfulness is not a sensible pastime so the course focuses on understanding Mindfulness, acquiring the ability to practise Mindfulness meditation, and the ability to convey it to others.

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Who should attend?

Mindfulness has very wide application, and people who attend this course normally fall into one of two categories:

1. Professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish also to be able to teach Mindfulness to patients.

2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to develop a common approach to Mindfulness.

The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, educational psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and others working in a variety of settings including: Adult Mental Health, Children and Adolescents, Older People, Substance Misuse, Forensic.

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The course covers:

• What is CBT?
• What is Mindfulness? The three 'A's and the What and How.
• How Mindfulness and CBT fit together.
• Mindfulness and recurrent depression: the theoretical basis whereby mindfulness resolves depression.
• Learning about self-awareness.
• Training our attention.
• 'Selling' Mindfulness: persuading clients of its relevance and usefulness.
• Examining your own mindfulness.
• The 'Doing Mode' and the 'Being Mode'. Noticing: awareness without criticism.
• 'Noticing' exercises: The Mindfulness of sound. Breathing, walking and raisins.
• Describing. Exercises on describing.
• Mindfulness of breath: moving towards internal experiences.
• Being non-judgemental.
• Why is it important to be in the present moment?
• Learning to tolerate the undesirable and reducing avoidance of emotions. How does mindfulness help with this?
• Designing your own mindfulness exercise.
• Kabat Zinn's Bodyscan Meditation.
• Key skills: experiencing the undesirable, befriending your emotions.
• How to apply it to your practice: developing your own practice.

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What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 100,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

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