MINDFULNESS-INTEGRATED CBT:
A FOUNDATION COURSE FOR PROFESSIONALS
8 WEEKS

MELBOURNE ~ SYDNEY ~ AUCKLAND  ~ ONLINE

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OVERVIEW

The main aim of this 8-week Foundation course is to provide clinicians with a sound understanding of MiCBT principles, theory and practice.

Course content will involve practical and experiential work, and include:

• core and advanced skills in mindfulness practice
• theoretical fundamentals of mindfulness approaches
• incorporating the complex foundations (locus and dynamics) of behaviour maintenance and extinction to improve ecological validity and therapeutic efficacy
• methods to engage the client in the MiCBT treatment plan
• implementing the four stages of MiCBT
• mindfulness-based relapse prevention strategies
• real case demonstrations on video and in a master class format will be included.

PREREQUISITES

No prior knowledge of mindfulness is assumed, however, a working knowledge of CBT or REBT is recommended.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Workshop content will involve practical and experiential components. Participants will learn:

• skills in mindfulness practice 
• theoretical fundamentals of mindfulness training 
• incorporating the complex foundations (locus and dynamics) of behaviour maintenance and change to improve therapeutic efficacy 
• how to engage the client in the treatment plan 
• the four stages of MiCBT with patients diagnosed with most DSM-IV Axis I and Axis II mental health disorders and some health conditions, such as addictions, chronic pain and trauma
• mindfulness-based relapse prevention strategies.

TEACHING APPROACH

The 8-week Foundation Course is taught through a combination of block mode face-to-face and online teaching,using the WebEx system from CISCO, one of the most sophisticated, secure, practical and easy-to-use online teaching platform.

Real case demonstrations on video and in a master class format will be included. The specific delivery is as follows:

1. A 2-day workshop (9am – 5pm) presenting the entire theoretical and research bases underlying MiCBT

2. Five 2-hour (online) weekly sessions

3. A 1-day workshop on Week 7, for the practising of skills learned in the past six weeks

4. A 1-hour (online) class on Week 8, to revise and close the course.

FEE (AUD)

$1350: Full Fee
$1300: MiCBT Institute Members / Part-time Students
$1250:Full-time Students

The registration fee includes morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch (Weeks 1 and 7) and course materials below.

COURSE MATERIALS

- Book: Mindfulness-integrated CBT: Principles and Practice by Dr Cayoun (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) as the practice manual for each step of the program.

- Cds: Two professionally recorded 80-minute CDs for the full implementation of mindfulness training (for beginners and advanced). 

- Free access to over 30 client handouts and therapist work forms, and free associate membership to the MiCBT Institute.