Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators PDF

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The applications and use of mindfulness-based interventions in medicine, mental health care, and education have been expanding as rapidly as the empirical evidence base that is validating and recommending them. This growth has created a powerful demand for professionals who can effectively deliver these interventions, and for the training of new professionals who can enter the fold.

Ironically, while the scientific literature on mindfulness has surged, little attention has been paid to the critical who and how of mindfulness pedagogy. Teaching Mindfulness is the first in-depth treatment of the person and skills of the mindfulness teacher. It is intended as a practical guide to the landscape of teaching, to help those with a new or growing interest in mindfulness-based interventions to develop both the personal authenticity and the practical know-how that can make teaching mindfulness a highly rewarding and effective way of working with others. The detail of theory and praxis it contains can also help seasoned mindfulness practitioners and teachers to articulate and understand more clearly their own pedagogical approaches.

Engagingly written and enriched with vignettes from actual classes and individual sessions, this unique volume:

• Places the current mindfulness-based interventions in their cultural and historical context to help clarify language use, and the integration of Eastern and Western spiritual and secular traditions
• Offers a highly relational understanding of mindfulness practice that supports moment-by-moment work with groups and individuals
• Provides guidance and materials for a highly experiential exploration of the reader's personal practice, embodiment, and application of mindfulness

• Describes in detail the four essential skill sets of the mindfulness teacher

• Proposes a comprehensive, systematic model of the intentions of teaching mindfulness as they are revealed in the mindfulness-based interventions
• Includes sample scripts for a wide range of mindfulness practices, and an extensive resource section for continued personal and career development
• Essential for today's practitioners and teachers of mindfulness-based interventions

Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators brings this increasingly important discipline into clearer focus, opening dialogue for physicians, clinical and health psychologists, clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, professional counselors, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, pastoral counselors, spiritual directors, life coaches, organizational development professionals, and teachers and professionals in higher education , in short, everyone with an interest in helping others find their way into the benefits of the present moment.

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• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 2010 edition (June 24, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1461402409
• ISBN-13: 978-1461402404
• Product Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6 inches
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Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators PDF

Teaching Mindfulness is not just for clinicians and educators despite what the subtitle suggests. It is a must-read for researchers, too. Researchers who are conducting or are planning to conduct mindfulness research can benefit greatly from this rich resource. Right now research on mindfulness is indeed "hot" and researchers without much, if any, mindfulness training or other meditation experience are jumping on the bandwagon to ride the funding wave. Many researchers think of mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) and related mindfulness based programs like classic cognitive-behavioral interventions that can be simply implemented by following a manual. They think that a graduate student can easily learn by simply taking a course and then become a mindfulness instructor to deliver their study intervention. However they are sorely mistaken and as such are doing a disservice to this important field. The authors, McCown, Reibel, and Micozzi, have written a clear and comprehensive guide that describes essential issues related to treatment fidelity, teacher qualities and skills, and historical foundations of mindfulness based interventions, all critical for the researcher to consider before embarking on studies of MBSR or other mindfulness based programs.

By Susan Bauer-Wu

I am a therapist and case manager in a psychiatric hospital and have brought mindfulness to both the patients and the care-givers where I work. I found my way to MBSR, knowing there must be a better way than reinventing the wheel. That led me to training with both authors and their new book, which is a godsend. I have in one resource to fulfill my intention to effectively teach others to uyse mindfulness as a means of self-regulation, self-discovery and ultimately self-transcendence. How cool is that? Great book...a little pricy, but well worth it.

By Denise Janssenmay