Showing posts with label mindfulness based mental health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mindfulness based mental health. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

MA in Mindfulness Based Therapy

MA in Mindfulness Based Therapy

The use of mindfulness practice in a clinical setting has been in the last two decades, a growing field of study in mental health research and the number of scientific articles and books on the subject is growing exponentially each year.

In particular, many scientific studies identify the Buddhist practice of mindfulness meditation - or awareness, a state of consciousness that involves ultraconservative mind and accept their moment to moment experience - a basis for effective therapeutic interventions against a broad extraordinary mental and medical.

Mindfulness is a deceptively simple way of dealing with the experience that has been practiced and taught for more than 2500 years to relieve human suffering. In recent years, mental health professionals are increasingly discovering that attention is a promising resource for personal development and a powerful tool for improving the therapeutic relationship, empathy, acceptance and effective treatment emotional pain of their patients.

This interest has arisen spontaneously and independent forms of cross-cultural epistemological attitude encouraged experimentation and the application of the principles of contemporary psychotherapy rooted in Eastern philosophies. The attention is in fact the main component of a series of new treatments empirically validated and proven over decades of practice primarily to integrate most psycho therapeutic models.

Over the last thirty years, numerous studies have demonstrated the clinical efficacy perspectives meditation and mindfulness based on, or related to psychiatric disorders (anxiety disorders, depression, eating disorders, substance abuse, limitations personality, etc..) What medical conditions (cancer, psoriasis, chronic pain), allowing the development of therapeutic protocols and validated models demonstrated that the reduction of stress based on attention, vigilance based cognitive therapy , dialectical behavior therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy compassion focused therapy.

Through this conference, participants will have the opportunity to learn the use of Mindfulness-Based Therapy in the creation of individual and group clinical or hospital, against various diseases and their use with the elderly and evolution. Principles and theories based view that mindfulness also propose an explanatory model and clinically effective complement the genesis of mental health problems and how they can be mitigated.