Debra Alvis – 2-Day Intensive Training: Mindfulness Certification Course – PESI

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Speaker: Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD

Duration: 12 Hours 34 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: Oct 06, 2020  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

This 2-day training is your chance to get the skills and guidance you need to successfully incorporate mindfulness practices into your treatment plans!

Dr. Debra Alvis is a clinical psychologist and expert on mindfulness who developed the Mind/Body Program at the University of Georgia. Dr. Alvis lectures and leads retreats around the world and her trainings have helped thousands of clinicians to integrate the richness of Mindfulness into therapy for greater clinical effectiveness.

Watch her during this 2-day intensive training and get:

• How-to instruction on using mindfulness-based exercises with clients working through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, anger, and addiction
• Specific guidance on using mindfulness with individuals and groups
• Feedback and tips on how you can strengthen your personal mindfulness practice

Purchase today, enhance your clinical practice, and fundamentally improve the lives of your clients as a Certified Mindfulness Informed Professional (CMIP)!

Speaker

Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD

Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD, a licensed psychologist, developed the Mind/Body Program at the University of Georgia, providing clinician training on the integration of mindfulness and contemplative practices into psychotherapy. Her work as a professor at the University of Georgia included the supervision of doctoral students and co-leading a research team investigating mindfulness.

In addition to teaching, Dr. Alvis maintains a private practice and has more than 25 years of clinical experience in treating clients with a variety of conditions by mindfulness principles, body-oriented principles and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. She also has an over 30-year personal contemplative practice.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Debra Alvis maintains a private practice and receives a speaking honorarium from Asadis Training, Essential Therapy Training, Georgia Museum of Art, Bascom Museum of Art, and Mountain Area Health Education Center. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Alvis is a member of the American Association of College Student Personnel, the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, the Association of Specialists in Group Work, the Athens Area Psychological Association, and the Georgia Psychological Association.

Objectives

1. Review the empirical support concerning the clinical applications of mindfulness.
2. Utilize easy to understand language to describe how mindfulness affects the neurological processes underlying clinical disorders.
3. Assess for potential contraindications for the use of mindfulness with clients.
4. Apply mindfulness skills to strengthen the therapeutic alliance.
5. Employ mindfulness practices to impact the stress reaction and shift clients to a relaxation response.
6. Use the mindfulness skills of awareness and metacognition to counter automatic thought patterns related to anxiety and depression.
7. Apply loving-kindness meditations to increase client well-being and relationship quality.
8. Practice the use of R.A.I.N. (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Non-Attachment) to identify triggers and work with cravings that could lead to addiction relapse.
9. Utilize present-moment awareness and deep breathing practices to manage physiological and emotional anger responses.
10. Employ grounding techniques and breathing exercises to increase feelings of safety in traumatized clients.
11. Integrate brief mindfulness practices into clinical treatment to improve client engagement.
12. Demonstrate the three steps of the Giving and Receiving Self-compassion practice to increase clinician presence and improve clinical outcomes.
13. Adapt mindfulness practices for diverse populations to improve clinical efficacy.

Outline

Mindfulness and the Clinician:
“Know What You Teach” and “Teach What You Know”

• Empirical support for improved symptomology and well-being
• The latest research on therapists who practice mindfulness
• Your mindfulness practice and how you can embody mindfulness
• Situations that may contraindicate applying mindfulness in session
• Research limitations

Mindfulness Psychoeducation Approaches:
Easy to Use Strategies to Enhance Motivation in Therapy

• Mindfulness vocabulary
• Visuals and metaphors to explain mindfulness
• Motivate clients with neuroplasticity

Deepen the Therapeutic Relationship:
Build Presence, Trust and Empathetic Connection with Clients

• Overcoming barriers
• Affect regulation techniques for therapist and client
• Strategies to create empathetic connection
• Exercises to build clients trust in themselves

Teach Mindfulness to Clients:
Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices

• Tips for teaching clients about the senses and awareness
• Strategies to shift from “Automatic Pilot”
• Skill building interventions to increase responsiveness & reduce reactivity
• Strategies to cultivate attunement
• Approaches for deepened experience of mindfulness
• Brief and other informal practices
• How to adapt practices to special populations

Group Therapy vs. Individual Sessions

• Effectiveness of group vs. individual mindfulness
• How to set up and conduct a mindfulness group

• Screening for individual goodness of fit
• Encouraging client buy-in and commitment to practice
• Mindfulness interventions specifically designed for groups

Anxiety and Stress:
Mindfulness Interventions to Relax the Body and Mind

• Breathing practices that break the rumination cycle
• Guided visualizations to lower the stress response
• Movement strategies
• Multi-sensory regulation techniques
• Mindfully reduce the intensity of panic attacks

Mindfulness for Trauma:
Disempower Intrusive Thoughts

• Muscle tension releasing – exercises to counter fight or flight
• Guided meditations to disempower intrusive thoughts
• Grounding exercises and sample scripts

Using Mindfulness in Depression Treatment

• Recognize self-criticism and respond with self-love
• Manage negative self-talk with awareness of thoughts
• Meditations to boost well-being

Mindfulness for Addictions: Break the Habit Loop

• Awareness vs. autopilot — relapse prevention
• Mindfulness for triggers
• Emotional regulation for cravings

Mindful Anger: Breathing and Self-Soothing Techniques

• Breathe through anger
• Distraction and grounding techniques
• Self-soothe with calming words and imagery

Mindfulness, Diversity, & Cultural Humility

• Adapt mindfulness experiences with cultural sensitivity
• Assess appropriateness of mindfulness interventions for individuals
• Negotiate the treatment plan

Mindfully Conquer Compassion Fatigue

• Right here/right now – stay in the moment to reduce anxieties
• Effective and healthy ways to manage your emotions
• Change limiting stories about caring for yourself
• Release the negative – 3 steps to countering negativity bias

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• School Counselors
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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