Details
Product Details
- Average Rating:
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1
- Faculty:
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Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD
- Duration:
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5 Hours 52 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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Jun 13, 2014
- Product Code:
- POS046830
- Media Type:
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Digital Seminar
- Access:
- Never expires.
CPD
Continuing Professional Development Certificates
- PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 5.75 hours CPD.
Faculty
Debra Premashakti Alvis, PhD, a licensed psychologist, developed the Mind/Body Program at the University of Georgia, providing clinician training on the integration of mindfulness and contemplative practices into psychotherapy. Her work as a professor at the University of Georgia included the supervision of doctoral students and co-leading a research team investigating mindfulness.
In addition to teaching, Dr. Alvis maintains a private practice and has more than 25 years of clinical experience in treating clients with a variety of conditions by mindfulness principles, body-oriented principles and traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. She also has an over 30-year personal contemplative practice.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Debra Alvis maintains a private practice and receives a speaking honorarium from Asadis Training, Essential Therapy Training, Georgia Museum of Art, Bascom Museum of Art, and Mountain Area Health Education Center. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Debra Alvis is a member of the American Association of College Student Personnel, the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, the Association of Specialists in Group Work, the Athens Area Psychological Association, and the Georgia Psychological Association.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)
Access never expires for this product.
Objectives
- Incorporate cutting edge neuroscience into psychotherapy.
- Describe how to promote lasting clinical changes.
- Utilize the three steps for hardwiring recovery.
- Identify mindfulness strategies for addressing anxiety, depression and limiting lifestyle habits.
- Demonstrate how to restore the brain when its energy has been depleted.
- Apply a five step approach for increasing clinician compassion.
Outline
Explore Cutting Edge Mindfulness Research
- More effective for depression than CBT
- Enhance the ability to focus
- Decrease rumination
- Hardwire clinical changes
Emotional Regulation
- Hone core mindfulness practices – awareness of body, breath & mind
- Stop the chain reaction
- Grounding practices
- Open the heart
- Return to the true self
- Minimize reactivity
- Visual meditations
Anxiety and Depression: Deepen Skills, Hardwire Recovery
- Self-compassion – kind words towards self and other
- Move through troubling emotions
- Identify healing narratives
- Reset the nervous system after trauma
- Identify false sanctuaries & underlying beliefs
- Overcome conflict and risk avoidance
- Deep Relaxation – addressing anxiety, decreasing insomnia
Build Effective Decision Making Tools
- Guide choices through values clarification
- Choosing and consulting ‘advisors’
- Tap into inner knowledge
Cultivate Patience
- Recognize impatience – enhance mind/ body awareness
- Support patience through contemplative practices
- Establish and honor limits
Cool the Flames of Anger
- Simple gestures for working with anger
- Develop awareness of underlying emotions
- Step out of the trance of anger – telling a new story
- Mindful walking for working with intense energy
- Ask for help
Forgiveness of Self and Others
- Understand forgiveness
- Forgiveness as a process
- Gain clarity – assign responsibility
- Tools for developing compassion
Age Mindfully
- Jump start the aging brain
- Overcome the fear of aging
- Enjoy the elder years
- Prepare for death through mindfulness
Mindfulness Strategies for Therapists
- Integrate role and soul
- Enhance therapeutic presence
- Buffering from burnout
- Increase compassion towards clients
Target Audience
Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants and other Mental Health Professionals
Reviews
Overall:
5
Total Reviews: 1
