- Mindfulness-integrated CBT
Applied Course
Expand your skills and learn to implement MiCBT confidently across a range of diagnoses.
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10 lessons over a 12 week period OR 4 x 4hr classes + 3 Supervision sessions
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Zoom, which allows you to use interactive documents, interact with other participants and the presenter, and review the recorded sessions if needed.
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20 CPD/CE may be claimed, but please check eligibility with your professional body regarding other criteria.
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Successful completion of the Foundation Course is a pre-requisite for this course.
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Course materials include: - The Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy- Masterclass 2: Skillful Use of Socratic Dialogue in MiCBT - Masterclass 3: Gaining Efficacy in Delivering the Rationale - Masterclass 8: Addressing Adverse Experiences Encountered during Meditation- Masterclass 9: Case Conceptualisation with MiCBT- Masterclass 15: Right Effort as Cognitive Reappraisal in MiCBT- Masterclass 16: Therapy Contracting in MiCBT- Masterclass 18: Using MiCBT with Trauma- Masterclass 19: The Importance of Teaching Ethical Behaviour in MiCBT- and access to over 50 training videos demonstrating MiCBT skills with clients.
Course Dates
MiCBT Applied Course
MiCBT Applied Course – accelerated
After you’ve mastered the fundamentals of Mindfulness-integrated CBT taught in the Foundation Course, the Applied Course will expand these skills and techniques to your clinical practice.
Overview
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT) is an evidence-based transdiagnostic approach specifically designed to address a wide range of mental health conditions. To implement MiCBT efficiently, we believe it is essential that therapists acquire a sound understanding of the principles, theory and practice of MiCBT and develop the confidence to address complex clinical situations effectively.
This course aims to teach you to implement MiCBT confidently with your clients and groups across a range of diagnoses, in most mental health settings, public and private. The course involves didactic, practical and experiential means of learning, including:
- Implementing the four stages of MiCBT, including mindfulness meditation,
- mindfulness-based exposure and relapse prevention strategies
- Masterclasses and group supervision (delivered online), involving role-play simulating current client attitudes and therapist responses
- General discussions on personal experience.
What will I learn?
You will learn to implement the four stages of MiCBT with clients diagnosed with most mental health disorders and some health conditions, such as addiction and chronic pain. This will include learning the clinical implementation of:
- Cognitive and behavioural methods to engage your client in the treatment plan efficiently
- Basic and advanced mindfulness meditation methods
- Mindfulness-based exposure techniques
- Mindfulness-based conflict resolution
- Enhancing neuroplasticity to help prevent relapse
- Compassion training through loving-kindness meditation and the use of ethics to assist in preventing relapse.
How is the course structured?
Option 1: Applied Course
Expand your skills and learn to implement MiCBT confidently across a range of diagnoses while being supervised and supported weekly by the trainer.
The MiCBT Applied Course consists of 10 online lessons over a 12-week period. All lessons are conducted online, which allows you to use interactive documents, interact with other participants and the presenter, and review the recorded sessions if needed.
This week’s class will guide you to prepare important bases for a successful programme. You will learn to set a therapy contract with clients, describe the MiCBT model, and teach them the pre-mindfulness relaxation method. This session includes:
- Introduction of each participant
- Planning the implementation of the program, setting goals and discussing professional and ethical matters
- Explaining the four stages of MiCBT to clients
- Setting a therapy contract.
- Setting and explaining this week’s homework for therapists and clients (Stage 1: Progressive Muscle Relaxation and mindfulness of the body)
This week’s class will guide you to prepare important bases for a successful programme. You will learn to set a therapy contract with clients, describe the MiCBT model, and teach them the pre-mindfulness relaxation method. This session includes:
- Introduction of each participant
- Planning the implementation of the program, setting goals and discussing professional and ethical matters
- Explaining the four stages of MiCBT to clients
- Setting a therapy contract.
- Setting and explaining this week’s homework for therapists and clients (Stage 1: Progressive Muscle Relaxation and mindfulness of the body)
This week’s class will guide you to address your clients’ difficulty adhering to a regular practice schedule for homework assignments and provide them with a rationale for practising mindfulness of breath. This session includes:
- Feedback from each participant
- Using the Socratic dialogue to assist clients with time management and practice commitment
- Providing a rationale for mindfulness of breath
- Setting and explaining this week’s homework for therapists and clients
This week’s class will guide you to explain the rationale for integrating mindfulness of body sensations in therapy and teach your clients unilateral body-scanning in the traditional Burmese Vipassana method used in MiCBT. This session includes:
- The co-emergence model of reinforcement
- The role of equanimity in the extinguishment of learned responses
- Setting and explaining this week’s homework for therapists and clients (Stage 1: Implementing the rationale for unilateral body-scanning)
- Feedback from each participant
This week’s class will guide you to emphasise the role and practice of equanimity in mindfulness meditation as an exposure (to sensory stimuli and memories) and response prevention method and teach your clients to recognise the deeper and usually subconscious elements of their experiences and transfer the skills to everyday experiences. This session includes:
- The four characteristics of body sensations
- The importance of skill transfer
- Setting and explaining this week’s homework for therapists and clients (Stage 1: rationale for unilateral body-scanning without instructions, monitoring applied practice using the Interoceptive Signature Form) as preparation for exposure in Stage 2)
- Practice feedback from each participant
This week’s class will guide you to implement mindfulness-based exposure methods using the skills acquired in the preceding weeks and teach your clients the first advanced scanning method. This session includes:
- Providing a rationale for Stage 2
- Describing and filling out the SUDS (Hierarchical Exposure) form and using bipolar and in-vivo exposure methods
- The rationale for advanced scanning techniques (rapid detection of early distress cues for better prevention of reactivity and addressing deeper schemas, including self-schema)
- Explaining symmetrical scanning
- Setting and explaining this week’s homework for therapists and clients.
This week, there is no online class with the teacher as more time is needed to implement the skills taught last week.
This week’s class will guide therapists to implement the same mindfulness-based exposure methods as last week but with more anxiety-provoking situations that keep clients in entrenched avoidance and teach them a more advanced scanning method. This session includes:
- Stage 2: bipolar and in-vivo exposure methods to address the last and most distressing avoidance items on the SUDS form
- Reviewing SUDS ratings across all items
- Explaining the generalisation of desensitisation effect
- Explaining partial sweeping
- Setting and explaining this week’s homework for therapists and clients.
This week’s class will guide therapists to teach clients mindfulness-based interpersonal skills, which help reduce interpersonal reactivity such as passivity, aggressiveness, or conflict-avoidance behaviour. It is sometimes called “the art of seeing human suffering”. This class will also guide therapists in implementing advanced body scanning that enables deep perception of the early onset of emotional processing. This week’s class includes:
- Explaining sweeping en masse
- Providing a rationale for Stage 3: externalising attention to understand others (“seeing suffering”) and preventing reactivity to their reactions
- Implementing Experiential Ownership (as an interpersonal-regulation method) based on co-emergence reinforcement
- Setting and explaining next week’s homework for therapists and clients processing, including early detection of distress cues.
This week’s class will guide you to implement empathic training grounded in thoughts, emotions and daily actions and teach Loving-Kindness meditation to your clients. This session includes:
- Practice feedback from each participant
- Advanced body-scanning: transversal scanning
- Grounded Empathy (compassion training)
- Loving-Kindness practice as a counter-conditioning context
- Five ethical challenges (as “behavioural experiments”) to ground empathic intentions into compassionate actions
- Setting and explaining next week’s homework for therapists and clients (Stage 4: rationale for grounded empathy training with ethical behaviour, implementing transversal scanning and Loving-Kindness techniques)
This week’s class will reinforce your skills in teaching compassion and help clients link mindfulness of ethical intentions and actions to create and maintain a sense of connectedness with others, thereby decreasing the probability of relapse. This session includes:
- Practice feedback from each participant
- Continuing compassion training
- The sweeping in-depth technique
- Setting and explaining next week’s homework for therapists and clients (Stage 4: refine applications of ethical behaviour, sweeping-in-depth and loving-kindness methods).
This week, there is no online class with the teacher as more time is needed to implement the skills taught last week.
This week’s class will summarise the course and review your learning outcomes. We will also discuss the use of the MiCBT Institute’s resources. This session includes:
- Practice feedback from each participant
- How to maintain gains in the long term
- Course revision and summary
- Evaluating learning outcomes
- Further training and planning professional support
Option 2: Applied Course – accelerated
This Applied Course is an accelerated learning opportunity to expand your MiCBT skills. It is conducted over 4 x 4hr online classes + 3 x 90min online supervision sessions. It is specifically designed for mental health therapists who have completed the Foundation Course and wish to advance their ability to implement MiCBT skills in their clinical practice but are not able to undertake the 12-week Applied Course
This week’s class will guide you to prepare important bases for a successful programme. You will learn to set a therapy contract with clients, describe the MiCBT model, and teach them the pre-mindfulness relaxation method. This session includes:
- Introduction of each participant
- Planning the implementation of the program, setting goals and discussing professional and ethical matters
- Explaining the four stages of MiCBT to clients
- Setting a therapy contract.
- Setting and explaining this week’s homework for therapists and clients (Stage 1: Progressive Muscle Relaxation and mindfulness of the body)
- Introduction and review of MiCBT theory, course of treatment, and session structure
- Delivering an effective therapy contract
- Treatment engagement by offering a sound rationale for MiCBT
- Delivering an effective rationale for each of the four stages
- Case conceptualization and treatment planning
- Addressing client challenges in practicing twice daily
- Identifying growing insight
- differentiating pathology from increased awareness of symptoms
- Explaining Stage 2 exposure methods to clients
- Optimising Stage 3 interpersonal exercises and role-play with clients
- Addressing trauma memories by adapting the practice – watch a demonstration of interoceptive exposure with traumatised clients
- Teaching relapse prevention accurately and effectively
- Teaching clients non-attachment to the therapist and ending therapy
- Measuring progress: behavioural, interpersonal, and psychometric methods
- Three x 90-minute follow-up group supervision sessions attended on an as-needed basis.
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