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Dr Bruno CayounDirector | Trainer | ResearcherDr Bruno Cayoun is a clinical and research psychologist and developer of Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT). He is the founder and Director of the MiCBT Institute, a leading provider of MiCBT training and professional development to mental health services and professional associations internationally since 2003.
Bruno keeps a private practice in Hobart, Australia, undertakes mindfulness research at the MiCBT Institute, and regularly cooperates on mindfulness-based research with various universities in Australia and abroad. He has a strong interest in Buddhist psychology and has practised mindfulness meditation in the Burmese Vipassana tradition of Ledi Sayadaw, U Ba Khin and S. N. Goenka and undergone intensive training in France, Nepal, India, and Australia since 1989.
Bruno is the author of several books, including Mindfulness-integrated CBT: Principles and Practice (Wiley, 2011), Mindfulness-integrated CBT for Well-Being and Personal Growth: Four Steps to Enhance Inner Calm, Self-Confidence and Relationships (Wiley, 2015), co-author of The Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness‐integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (Wiley, 2019) and The Mindfulness and Meditation Workbook for Anxiety and Depression (New Harbinger, 2024). His mindfulness training audio instructions are used worldwide in various languages, and he is the principal developer of validated questionnaires, including the Short Progress Assessment , the Mindfulness-based Self Efficacy Scale, and co-developer of the Equanimity Scale 16.
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MiCBT Masterclass 4: Adaptation of MiCBT for Children
Although MiCBT provides the strong advantage of being a transdiagnostic intervention, age-related adaptations are important to consider, given the significant differences in brain volume and functionality across the lifespan. These differences result in dissimilarities in the capacity for attention, memory, self-awareness and self-regulation, and therefore in the way clients understand and use MiCBT techniques. This also applies to CBT alone, which has been shown to lose efficacy in older adults.
This masterclass will assist you with adapting MiCBT for children, where attention and emotion dysregulation are more complex to address than in adulthood. It will provide several examples of technique adaptation at various therapy levels and give an overview of the early empirical evidence for the efficacy of MiCBT in childhood.
You will learn:
- How to use the MiCBT generic child protocol for children
- How and when to delay the standard steps
- How (and why) to insert intermediate steps
- When not to use mindfulness in MiCBT and for how long