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This book presents a comprehensive, 12-module transdiagnostic program to deliver Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) in group and individual settings.Offering an accessible step-by-step guide to the essentials of CFT and its application to a range of contexts, this book provides clinicians with clear guidelines to deliver the modules and adapt them to the specific needs of target groups/individuals. Each module focuses on a theme, which is explained through an introductory basic science for the clinician and then developed and explored through psychoeducation for the client, followed by a variety of experiential exercises. Also included are examples of CFT case formulations, therapist scripts, and client handouts. As an additional resource, clinicians are provided access to www.cftmanual.com, an online platform with downloadable support material such as guided audio meditations, videos of brief Yoga sessions, educational videos, and supplementary handouts.This practice guide will be the authoritative resource in CFT for clinicians, trainers, supervisors, researchers, and clients with previous CFT experience who wish to deepen their practice.

Dieses Therapiemanual beschreibt für Psychotherapeutinnen und Psychotherapeuten die therapeutische Allianz aus der ACT-Perspektive (ACT: Akzeptanz- und Commitment-Therapie), einem Therapieverfahren, das klassisch kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutische Interventionen mit achtsamkeits- und akzeptanzbasierten Strategien kombiniert. An der Praxis orientiert, stellt die Autorin zunächst die theoretischen Grundlagen dar. Sie macht danach das sog. Hexaflex der ACT nutzbar: sechs Prozesse, angewandt auf die therapeutische Beziehung, welche Leserinnen und Leser kennenlernen, reflektieren und in der eigenen Praxis einsetzen können. Audio-Übungen und Fallbeispiele runden die Lektüre ab. Dieses Buch unterstützt Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten nicht nur in einer Beziehungsgestaltung, die die Therapie wirksamer werden lässt, sondern auch in einem selbstfürsorglichen Umgang als Prävention des Burnouts in der therapeutischen Arbeit. Mit Gewinn lesbar auch ohne ACT-Kenntnisse. Stichworte aus dem Inhalt: Therapeutische Haltung und Beziehung – Achtsamkeit – ACT – Defusion – Akzeptanz – Präsenz – Selbst als Konzept – Werte – Engagiertes Handeln. Über die Autorin: Dr. phil. Dipl.-Psych. Sabine Svitak, Psychologische Psychotherapeutin, Verhaltenstherapeutin, Supervisorin und Ausbilderin, seit 2011 niedergelassen in eigener Praxis, interessiert sich insbesondere für die Integration von achtsamkeitsbasierten Verfahren in der kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie. Leitung von ACT-Fortbildungen und engagiert in der ACT-Community.

Mindfulness for Young Adults: Tools to Thrive in School and Life is an interactive experience designed to enhance mindful awareness and to aid in teaching and learning the principles and practice of mindfulness.Blending theory, research, and practice to offer a comprehensive program for young adults to build well-being tools, each of the book's five modules includes engaging information, strategies, meditations, and activities designed to deepen understanding and application of mindfulness. It includes practical techniques to cope with emotions, work with thoughts, navigate stress, build resilience, make aligned choices, and be more present in life and relationships. In addition to the reflection and meditation activities found at the end of each module, the text also features a'resources'section complete with a mock exam, tips for course design, and resources for further study. Designed for both students and instructors, this workbook can be used independently or in the classroom as either a textbook to an introductory mindfulness course or as a supplement for teaching well-being practices in any discipline.

This book serves as a practical introduction to integrating mindfulness-based practices in therapy, with a focus on assessing whether it is appropriate to use or adapt mindfulness activities to the specific cultural identity or identities of clients. Eastern spirituality has exerted considerable influence on the fields of counseling and psychology through the use of mindfulness-based practices. Interventions can be adapted to account for clients'religious/spiritual identity, gender norms, racial/ethnic background, community values and pressures, personality traits, unfamiliarity with mindfulness-based practices, cognitive flexibility, and individual life experiences. The authors present an approach to integrating mindfulness in therapy that emphasizes cultural humility, which combines an accurate view of oneself (including limits in one's awareness, knowledge, and skills for working with individuals from diverse groups) with the ability to cultivate an'other-oriented'stance, thus enhancing one's ability to work with clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. By incorporating this client-centered approach, therapists will be better able to align the therapy process with clients'values, narratives about change, and therapy goals.

This innovative book explains and introduces the use of mindfulness in therapeutic work with parents and babies, covering issues such as feeding, crying, sleeping and relating, as well as other developmental challenges which affect family life, as practiced in both clinical sessions and in the home.The book is divided into two parts. Part 1 introduces: (1) what parent-infant psychotherapy is, its origin and evolution; (2) mindfulness, which consists in paying attention in a purposeful way in the present moment and not judgementally; and (3) the development and maturation of the brain and nervous system and how they are affected by the environment in utero and after birth. Part 2 then goes on to explore a range of topics such as parental mental illnesses, immigration, dislocation, loss, guilt, substance misuse, abuse, post-natal depression, congenital malformations and the role of fathers. It describes how these factors impact the parental relationship with, and the healthy development of the infant, drawing from relevant research to demonstrate the effectiveness of parent-infant psychotherapy and mindfulness.The practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy aided by mindfulness is a useful intervention for distressed families with infants, while a mindful approach to oneself and one's baby can ease parental anxiety and free-loving capacities. Neurodevelopmental Parent-Infant Psychotherapy and Mindfulness is an essential resource for clinicians and researchers working on parent and infant relations and will also appeal to curious new or future parents.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is a powerful, evidence-based treatment for depression and other mental health conditions. This groundbreaking professional book provides clinicians with the essential skills they need to deliver MBCT. In this book, you'll discover the foundations of teaching MBCT, guidance on embodied mindful presence (a focused awareness of experience in the moment), the contemplative dialogue known as inquiry, and other strategies for delivering group-based MBCT. You'll also find scripts, access to audio material, and practice guidelines for you and your clients. Although focused on MBCT, this book can be referenced for use in other mindfulness-based programs.In addition, you'll gain the knowledge and confidence you need to effectively deliver MBCT and build the foundations of an embodied practice. The book starts with an overview of the MBCT program, before devoting chapters to the structure and skills required for developing competence and best practice. You'll deepen your understanding and facility in the most challenging elements of MBCT: mindful embodied presence and inquiry. You'll also learn strategies for delivering this therapy to a group; troubleshooting tips; and a chapter on training, mentorship, and maintaining competence. Finally, you'll find essential information including meditation scripts, tools, and other resources for delivering MBCT.If you are looking to deepen your practice and ability to teach MBCT, this book—written by renowned MBCT clinicians—is an invaluable addition to your professional library.

Die 5 Prinzipien traumasensitiver Achtsamkeit Von Grundschulen über MBSR-Kurse bis hin zu psychotherapeutischen Praxen - Achtsamkeitsmeditation hat sich in vielen Bereichen der Gesellschaft etabliert. Gleichzeitig ist Trauma eine Tatsache in unserem Leben: Fast jeder Mensch ist irgendwann einmal mit einem traumatischen Ereignis konfrontiert. Das bedeutet, dass es überall dort, wo Achtsamkeit praktiziert wird, jemanden geben wird, der oder die mit Trauma zu kämpfen hat. David Treleaven ist Psychotherapeut und forscht seit vielen Jahren zu Achtsamkeit und Trauma. Auf dieser Basis formuliert er fünf Prinzipien, mit deren Hilfe Traumaüberlebende von der positiven Wirkung eines Achtsamkeitstrainings profitieren können. Er zeigt 36 spezifische Modifikationen für die Achtsamkeitspraxis, die dazu dienen, die Sicherheit und Stabilität von Traumaüberlebenden zu unterstützen. Ein wegweisender und praktischer Ansatz und eine enorm hilfreiche Lektüre für alle Achtsamkeitslehrenden und Traumatherapeuten. Stimmen zum Buch:'Eine seltene Mischung aus fundierter Wissenschaft, hilfreichen praktischen Anregungen und engagierter Fürsprache für all die Menschen, die Traumata erlitten haben.'Rick Hanson, Autor von Das Gehirn eines Buddha

Qu'est-ce que la pleine conscience? Comment méditer? Quels sont les résultats de recherches qui en évaluent les bienfaits? Ces questions ont déjà fait l'objet de publications, mais les liens entre la pleine conscience et la pratique clinique n'ont jamais été abordés dans un ouvrage en langue française. Voici donc le premier livre francophone à s'intéresser à la pleine conscience et à son application dans différents contextes thérapeutiques et éducatifs. Comment la pleine conscience peut-elle favoriser le savoir-être de l'intervenant? Quels en sont les fondements théoriques? Comment les approches thérapeutiques actuelles intègrent-elles la pleine conscience? Comment utilise-t-on la pleine conscience en contexte thérapeutique (auprès de personnes souffrant d'anxiété, de traumas, de difficultés sexuelles, de déficit cognitif ou de problèmes de santé mentale) ou éducatif (dans les écoles, en pédiatrie sociale ou à l'université)? Ces questions sont abordées dans ce nouvel ouvrage qui s'adresse aux intervenants, aux chercheurs et aux étudiants qui s'intéressent à la relation d'aide.

A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living: Living with Heart is a step-by-step guide for those who wish to deepen their mindfulness skills with compassion for a healthier, happier life and more fulfilling relationships. It offers a clear structure as well as ample freedom to adjust to individual needs, starting with learning to be kind to yourself and then expanding this to learn how to be kind to others.This guide consists of eight chapters that follow the eight sessions of the mindfulness-based compassionate living training programme. To enhance the learning experience, this book features accessible transcripts and downloadable audio exercises, as well as worksheets to explore experiences during exercises. It also includes suggestions for deepening practice at the end of each session. A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living explores the science of compassion in an easy-to-understand and comprehensive manner, one which will appeal to both trained professionals and clients, or anyone wishing to deepen their mindfulness practice with ‘heartfulness'.

Research has consistently demonstrated the role of the therapeutic alliance in effective psychotherapy. Yet, the emotional demands of therapy combined with everyday stressors and distractions can prevent therapists from being fully present with their clients, which makes it difficult to build and maintain a stable alliance. This book is a much-needed practical guide to cultivating therapeutic presence. The specific techniques described will help clinicians engage more deeply with their clients on multiple levels -- physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, and relational. It will also help clinicians and their clients deepen their relationship into a healing encounter. Author Shari Geller first reviews the empirical foundations of therapeutic presence, including its neurophysiogical underpinnings. She then translates this knowledge into clinical skills and practices that therapists of all theoretical backgrounds can use to set a pre-session foundation for presence, cultivate that presence in session, and overcome barriers. To be optimally effective, therapists must also practice self-care and hone their presence skills outside of therapy. Thus, Geller provides exercises that allow therapists to cultivate presence in all aspects of their lives. The book culminates in a description of therapeutic relational presence, the deepest level of connection therapists and clients can achieve through ongoing presence with each other.

Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations explores the potential of mindfulness and explains why this level of developmental human achievement is so precarious within traumatic stress, especially traumatic dissociation. Chapters discuss the connection and disconnection between mindfulness and dissociative disorders and highlight the importance of gently creating a mindfulness practice for traumatized individuals. Readers will learn how to exercise the part of the brain that is responsible for mindfulness and how to regulate the part that is responsible for dissociation, and they'll come away from the book with tips that will help even the most dissociative client to reap the benefits of mindfulness practices.

In this groundbreaking guide for clinicians, psychologist Matthew McKay and Aprilia West present emotional efficacy therapy (EET)—a powerful and proven-effective model for treating clients with emotion regulation disorders.If you treat clients with emotion regulation disorders—including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder (BPD)—you know how important it is for these clients to take control of their emotions and choose their actions in accordance with their values. To help, emotion efficacy therapy (EET) provides a new, theoretically-driven, contextually-based treatment that integrates components from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into an exposure-based protocol. In doing so, EET targets the transdiagnostic drivers of experiential avoidance and distress intolerance to increase emotional efficacy.This step-by-step manual will show you how to help your clients confront and accept their pain, and learn to apply new adaptive responses to emotional triggers. Using a brief treatment that lasts as little as eight weeks, you will be able to help your clients understand and develop a new relationship with their emotions, learn how to have mastery over their emotional experience, practice values-based action in the midst of being emotionally triggered, and stop intense emotions from getting in the way of creating the life they want.Using the transdiagnostic, exposure-based approach in this book, you can help your clients manage difficult emotions, curb negative reactions, and start living a better life. This book is a game changer for emotion exposure treatment!

Embodying mindfulness allows both therapists and clients to make the most of treatment sessions. More than just a guide to techniques and benefits, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of mindfulness meditation, and shows how to effectively incorporate mindfulness into every aspect of the therapeutic process. Mindfulness isn't simply a therapeutic tool that can be used at a specific time. If you're a psychotherapist interested in implementing mindfulness practices into your therapy sessions, you must first embody a mindful presence yourself. In Mindfulness Meditation in Psychotherapy, psychotherapist Steven Alper presents the mindfulness pyramid model, an easy-to-use reference approach for integrating mindfulness into the very fabric of your therapy sessions—in every action you take. A therapist's mindfulness practice and the mindful activity during sessions forms the foundation of clients'mindfulness practice. This practical guide will help demystify mindfulness meditation; elaborate on the psychotherapeutic benefits of practices such as body scan, breath awareness, sitting meditation, and lovingkindness; and offer helpful strategies for teaching formal and informal mindfulness skills to clients. This book conceptualizes and explores the applicability of mindfulness and delves into the many ways in which mindfulness can manifest in psychotherapy. This is a must-have resource for any therapist interested in honing their own mindfulness practice and incorporating mindfulness in treatment sessions.

Mindfulness for Therapists: Practice for the Heart encourages therapists to embrace mindfulness practice to create presence and depth in their work with clients. Mindfulness helps therapists cultivate compassion, relieve stress, and weather the often emotionally difficult work of providing therapy. In addition, the therapist's own meditation practice is a necessary foundation for teaching mindfulness to clients. Through a variety of exercises and stories from his own clinical experience, McCollum helps therapists understand the usefulness of mindfulness, and develop their own practice.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an evidence-based program that combines mindfulness and cognitive therapy techniques for working with stress, anxiety, depression, and other problems. Building Competence in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy provides the first transcript of an entire 8-week program. This intimate portrayal of the challenges and celebrations of actual clients give the reader an inside look at the processes that occur within these groups. The author also provides insights and practical suggestions for building personal and professional competence in delivering the MBCT protocol.

Effortless Mindfulness promotes genuine mental health through the direct experience of awakened presence—an effortlessly embodied, fearless understanding of and interaction with the way things truly are. The book offers a uniquely modern Buddhist psychological understanding of mental health disorders through a scholarly, clinically relevant presentation of Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist teachings and practices. Written specifically for Western psychotherapeutic professionals, the book brings together traditional Buddhist theory and contemporary psychoneurobiosocial research to describe the conditioned and unconditioned mind, and its in-depth exploration of Buddhist psychology includes complete instructions for psychotherapists in authentic, yet clinically appropriate Buddhist mindfulness/heartfulness practices and Buddhist-psychological inquiry skills. The book also features interviews with an esteemed collection of Buddhist teachers, scholars, meditation researchers and Buddhist-inspired clinicians.

This practical guide helps therapists from virtually any specialty or theoretical orientation choose and adapt mindfulness practices most likely to be effective with particular patients, while avoiding those that are contraindicated. The authors provide a wide range of meditations that build the core skills of focused attention, mindfulness, and compassionate acceptance. Vivid clinical examples show how to weave the practices into therapy, tailor them to each patient's needs, and overcome obstacles. Therapists also learn how developing their own mindfulness practice can enhance therapeutic relationships and personal well-being. The Appendix offers recommendations for working with specific clinical problems. Free audio downloads (narrated by the authors) and accompanying patient handouts for selected meditations from the book are available at www.sittingtogether.com.See also Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, Second Edition, edited by Christopher K. Germer, Ronald D. Siegel, and Paul R. Fulton, which reviews the research on therapeutic applications of mindfulness and delves into treatment of specific clinical problems.

Mindfulness has become a vital skill for many people working in the fields of physical and mental health, teaching, business, leadership and sports. While plenty of books explain the uses of mindfulness, until now none has addressed the particular challenges of effectively passing these skills on to clients in a user-friendly way.Designed to help professionals introduce mindfulness to clients, the skills laid out here can help those struggling with problems of recurrent stress or ruminative thought, and benefit people wanting to live in a more effective, rewarding way. Incorporating a series of practical exercises and drawing on their own professional experience, the authors clearly demonstrate the most effective methods for presenting mindfulness techniques to those with no previous experience. Topics covered include: Orienting the client to the skill Obtaining and using client feedback effectively Introducing simple practises Teaching clients to utilise mindfulness in everyday life Case scenarios demonstrating the skills in practice This practical, structured guide is essential for professionals already teaching or planning to teach mindfulness skills, those taking courses or workshops and for anyone interested in learning more about mindfulness.

This book presents a psychotherapy intervention model called Multimodal Integrative Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (MICST). It is grounded in information processing and cognitive stimulation techniques and operates out of a positive psychology framework. This model, designed for group work with clients with schizophrenia, can be easily tailored to working with clients in individual therapy sessions. The three core MICST group activities include: 1) body movement-mindfulness-relaxation (BMR); 2) cognitive stimulation using group discussions; and 3) cognitive stimulation using paper-pencil cognitive exercises and self-reflection exercises. A chapter is devoted to each of these core areas with actual case vignettes to illustrate ways that these activities can be implemented in clinical practice. Homework recommendations are included at the end of each chapter, devoted to a core MICST group activity and providing suggestions on ways to practice various skills and exercises in between group sessions. Also provided are several handouts and worksheets which can be used with clients.

This ground-breaking book explores the theoretical, clinical and training application of integrating mindfulness with all of the arts therapies, and includes cutting-edge contributions from neuroscience, with 6 sections that examine mindfulness and the arts therapies from different perspectives written by pioneers and leaders in their fields.

This book reviews the research and philosophical foundations for using mindfulness, acceptance, and Buddhist psychology in couple and family therapy. It also provides a detailed and practical approach for putting these ideas into action in the therapy room, including a mindful approach to therapeutic relationships, case conceptualization, treatment planning, teaching meditation, and intervention.

Mindfulness is growing in popularity as a technique which teaches us to appreciate our life.This Practical Guide explores how to listen to your body to reduce stress and anxiety in all areas of your life; how to focus better at work by becoming more aware of what is happening in the present, and how to enjoy life more by bringing mindfulness into everyday actions. Free of jargon but full of straightforward advice, case studies and step-by-step instructions, this is the perfect concise start to making you happier, more focused and stress-free.

The therapeutic relationship is essential to positive outcomes of psychotherapy. In this book, Shari M. Geller and Leslie S. Greenberg argue that therapeutic presence is the fundamental underlying quality of the therapeutic relationship and, hence, effective therapy. Therapeutic presence is the state of having one s whole self in the encounter with a client by being completely in the moment on a multiplicity of levels physically, emotionally, cognitively, and spiritually. Present therapists become aware of both their own experience and that of their client through bodily sensations and emotions, and this awareness helps them to connect deeply with the client. Therapeutic presence is not a replacement for technique, but rather a foundational therapeutic stance that supports deep listening and understanding of the client in the moment. Geller and Greenberg present their empirically based model of therapeutic presence that integrates three aspects of the concept: how present therapists prepare for presence both pre-session and in general life, what activities therapists engage in when being therapeutically present, and what in-session presence feels like. The authors also provide a therapeutic presence theory of relationship based on research and clinical wisdom. Importantly, because presence is a learnable state that can be cultivated with practice and commitment, the authors infuse the book with practical, experiential exercises for cultivating presence.

Described simply, mindfulness is the art of directing our attention to ‘what is'(reality) rather than ‘what isn't'(our ideas of reality). With a little practice, anyone can do it, and the benefits are profound, leading to: • an increased sense of happiness and wellbeing • increased clarity of mind • increased productivity, and • better health. Written by two experts with many years of personal and clinical experience, ‘Mindfulness for Life'is designed to be your complete guide to living a more mindful life. Whether you want to: • reduce stress and anxiety • reduce your risk of disease • overcome addiction • unhook yourself from depression • manage your weight • perform better at work • be a better parent • or simply enjoy a good night's sleep... mindfulness can help! Only a few minutes a day can start to change your life. ‘Do read this book. Do give it to someone you care about... Mindfulness works!'Ian Gawler OAM Dr Stephen McKenzie has over twenty years of experience in researching and teaching a broad range of psychological areas. He has a unique ability to present potentially complex information in a warm, engaging and entertaining way. He is currently a lecturer and research fellow at Deakin University's School of Psychology, where he is investigating mindfulness as a clinical treatment. Dr Craig Hassed is an internationally recognised expert in mindfulness who has been instrumental in promoting mindfulness as a simple and accessible technique for enhancing wellness, preventing and managing illness, and improving performance within health, educational and corporate settings. He is the founding president of the Australian Teachers of Meditation Association.

This book has been replaced by Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for Addictive Behaviors, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-4531-5.

Les thérapies qualifiées d'alternatives ou de complémentaires se développent de plus en plus avec la demande expansive des patients en situation de souffrance que le modèle biomédical ne satisfait pas complètement. Ces thérapies tiennent compte des dimensions physiques (le corps, le mouvement), émotionnelles (les sentiments, les sensations), intellectuelles (le cerveau et ses capacités cognitives) et spirituelles (la compréhension de soi, du monde) de l'humain en relation avec son environnement. La méditation de pleine conscience, qui puise son origine dans la tradition orientale, s'inscrit dans cette optique par ses effets sur la santé en termes préventifs et curatifs. Après avoir défini et situé la méditation en général dans un contexte historique et culturel, l'ouvrage fait le point sur cette thérapie en se basant sur des études scientifiques validées et contrôlées, en insistant sur les aspects conceptuels et processus d'actions. Ainsi, l'auteur l'inscrit dans la lignée des thérapies cognitives et comportementales et des psychothérapies. Les pathologies pour lesquelles la méditation de pleine conscience a montré une forte valeur ajoutée (stress, anxiété, dépression, douleur chronique…) sont présentées avec un protocole de prise en charge inspiré de l'approche MBSR (Mindfulness based stress reduction).Le point sur cette thérapie de pleine conscience à partir d'études scientifiques validées et contrôlées. - La définition et la situation de la méditation dans son contexte historique et culturel. - Les aspects conceptuels et les processus d'actions. - Une présentation des pathologies pour lesquelles cette thérapie a montré une forte valeur ajoutée, illustrée par des protocoles de prise en charge.