NSW health department Principal Clinical Psychologists Pip Bowden and Shehzi Yusaf have collaborated with Dr Alice Shires from UTS and have been successful in gaining a Cross Boundary Allied Health HETI grant with ISLHD Allied Health Services and Western Sydney LHD for an 8-week online training in Mindfulness Integrated CBT developed by Clinical Psychologist, Bruno …
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In this episode of Better Thinking, Nesh Nikolic speaks with Dr Alice Shires about the possible effects of mindfulness training on anger, grief, and chronic pain. Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher
Regular mindfulness practice is gaining popularity as a way to improve wellbeing. Undertaken correctly and regularly, it can produce positive benefits in the management of stress, depression, pain and other areas of distress, writes Alice Shires, clinical psychologist and director of the UTS Psychology Clinic. What is it? Mindfulness meditation focuses on being in the …
Shires A 1,2, Sharpe L 1, NewtonJohn TRO 2. 1 School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Clinical Psychology Department, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ABSTRACT This study investigated whether the ability to disengage quickly frompain‐related stimuli moderated the relative efficacy of a mindfulness‐based interventionversus …
The International Mindfulness Conference was yet again another inspiring conference for all researchers and teachers of Mindfulness. It was a great opportunity for us to catch up. It was also an enormous honour and pleasure to have Lynette Monteiro from the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic chair our session
UTS Clinical Psychology is conducting a study on the effects of mindfulness on chronic pain. One in five Australians now lives with chronic pain, a figure that increases to one in three people over the age of 65. Chronic pain is defined as any pain that lasts beyond the expected healing period. The study, led …
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The Institute’s annual MiCBT Teachers’ meeting was held yesterday in Melbourne. Jon flew in from New Zealand, and Andrea joined us online from Canada. Stay tuned for some important announcements regarding MiCBT training and certification! From l-r: Jon, Alice, Mikako, Sally, Bruno.
Bruno Cayoun, Alice Shires and Sally Francis travelled to Rome for the 2nd International Conference on Mindfulness (May 11-15, 2016). Bruno and Alice both presented papers on MiCBT and pain.
14-Feb-2015: Sydney – WORKSHOP MiCBT for Chronic Conditions, Crisis Intervention & Relapse Prevention (2 days), with Alice Shires The aim of this workshop is to introduce the integration of mindfulness training with core principles of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to improve ways of addressing chronic conditions, crisis and prevent relapse in a wide range of psychological disorders. …
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Bruno Cayoun Alice Shires Due to increasing demand, we are happy to announce further training opportunities with the MiCBT Institute for 2014. 13-Sep-2014: Melbourne – MiCBT for Chronic Conditions, Crisis Intervention & Relapse Prevention (2 days), with Bruno Cayoun The aim of this workshop is to introduce the integration of mindfulness training with core principles of …
