Psychology Moment by Moment: A Guide to Enhancing Your Clinical Practice with Mindfulness and Meditation
Language: English
Pages: 184
ISBN: 1572248955
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
As the research supporting mindfulness-based therapies grows, so does the demand for mental health professionals who can develop effective mindfulness-based treatment protocols suited to the needs of individual clients. Psychology Moment by Moment guides clinicians through the process of creating and applying mindfulness-based interventions for a variety of client populations and problems, session by session, to focus treatment even more and help clients make substantial progress.
You'll learn the best mindfulness techniques for the treatment of anxiety disorders, depression, chronic illness, pain, stress, and eating disorders, and apply these techniques in therapy, including child and couples therapy. This handbook also offers methods for measuring and documenting client mindfulness that have previously been available only to researchers. The mindfulness approach in this book can be used as a stand-alone treatment or may be incorporated into cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and other therapeutic modalities.
- Integrate these evidence-based mindfulness techniques into your practice and learn why they work:
- Breathing exercises for deep relaxation
- Building mindful awareness and sensory exercises in daily activities
- Meditations for building present-moment awareness
- Yoga, body scan meditations, and other body awareness techniques
stimuli in a gradual way, using a hierarchy from least feared to most feared stimulus. If she becomes anxious, the therapist will ask her to relax. Once she’s relaxed again, the process is repeated until the client can imagine the most feared stimulus and stay relaxed. When the client encounters the feared stimuli in real life, she will respond with relaxation instead of anxiety and be able to tolerate or interact with the previously feared stimuli. Clinicians and researchers suggest that
long or last for days or even weeks. Successful retreats take careful planning. They generally involve more than one leader of mindfulness practices, as well as support staff. Activities should move smoothly from one to the next, and enough space should be provided for participants to feel comfortable. In mindfulness-based stress reduction, clients are asked to attend a daylong mindfulness retreat, usually toward the end of the eight-week intervention program. These retreats may include a large
it’s best to use a quiet and private space, such as a garden or courtyard. Start by having the client do a few minutes of seated meditation with a focus on the breath. Instructions for Walking Meditation Therapist: Now that you’re seated, close your eyes or lower your eyelids. Notice your breath. Feel the air moving into your nostrils, into your body. Breathing in, and breathing out. (Pause for five seconds.) When you’re ready, open your eyes, but you can keep your eyelids lowered. Slowly
slowly bring the leg back down. Repeat this with the left leg. Do this three to five times, alternating between legs and moving and breathing slowly and evenly. Return to the starting position, with your knees bent and feet under your knees. Pose 7. Keeping your shoulders and upper back on the floor, gently roll your knees to the right side, allowing your left hip to come up off the ground. Turn your head to the left and stretch your left arm to the left as well. Hold this position for three to
(Process measures evaluate what occurs within the session and the therapeutic relationship.) This chapter presents realistic methods for systematically assessing evidence-based protocols, and it explains how to develop effective evaluation procedures to help you grow your mindfulness-based clinical practice. In this chapter, I’ll also offer a few tips on growing your mindfulness-based practice, both for clinical populations and in other contexts. Researchers are reporting new and exciting