Mitch Abblett – Therapeutic Presence via the Mindful Communication Sequence (MCS): A Mindfulness-Based Communication Method for Clinicians – PESI

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Speaker: Mitch Abblett, PhD

Duration: 1 Hour 07 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: Oct 17, 2016  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

Research is clear that experience or techniques are not the best predictors of client outcomes in psychotherapy. The best therapy outcomes come for clinicians who cultivate and maintain high quality therapeutic alliances with their clients. These clinicians are more present, engaged, flexible, accepting of experience and integrated in their processing of moment-to-moment information, and therefore develop the presence and timing to deliver the most effective interventions. In a word, these clinicians learn the skills of “mindful truth-telling” relative to their moment-to-moment experience and how to intervene and communicate authentically, compassionately and directly – even when things are less than comfortable. The Mindful Communication Sequence (MCS) fosters the therapeutic alliance, enhances treatment, and is a model and method for building mindful, flexible management of experience for clients themselves.

Many clinicians are looking to bring mindfulness techniques into their practices, but there are few resources for integrating mindfulness into one’s general communication stance with all clients – this seminar introduces a simple, comprehensive method (MCS) for understanding, managing and enhancing the authenticity of therapeutic communication with clients. MCS integrates components from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and other mindfulness interventions and family / systems therapies and is a helpful companion to therapists of diverse technical and theoretical backgrounds. MCS enhances the quality of therapeutic alliances with clients, manages “ruptures” in the alliance, and develops accurate timing of interventions. Altogether, the skills covered in this method build the the “presence” of the clinician, maximizing positive therapeutic outcomes.

Objectives

1. Evaluate evidence-based mindfulness and here-and-now relationship management interventions for maximizing effective intervention timing, avoiding perceptual bias and error, and intervening based on all the available and relevant clinical information
2. Develop skills for understanding and skillfully maintaining flexible and effective thinking and clinical decision-making, managing countertransference reactions to clients, and cultivating skills for compassionate perspective-taking and communication.
3. Implement skills for to coaching clients in session to bring the Mindful Communication Sequence (MCS) to bear in their real-world interactions with others.

Outline

I. Mindfulness and here-and-now relationship management interventions

1. Maximize effective intervention timing
2. Avoid perceptual bias and error
3. Intervene based on available and relevant clinical information

II. Demonstrate skills

1. Skillfully maintaining flexible and effective thinking
2. Clinical decision-making
3. Manage countertransference reactions
4. Cultivate skills for compassionate perspective-taking and communication

III. Skills for coaching clients in session to bring the Mindful Communication Sequence (MCS)

Speaker

Mitch Abblett, PhD

Mitch Abblett, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, consultant, and national/international speaker. He has published various books and card decks on topics such as mindfulness, self-compassion, and resilience, including Prizeworthy: How to Meaningfully Connect, Build Character, and Unlock the Potential of Every Child. 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Mitch Abblett is the executive director at The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and maintains a private practice. He is a clinical consultant and trainer at Hanover and Wareham public schools. He is a published author and receives royalties. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Mitch Abblett is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (member), the New England Chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science, and the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.

Target Audience

Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Other Mental Health Professionals

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