Workshop 17 - Integrating Mindfulness with Clinical Precision: Strategic Practice Selection in CBT
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I'm very excited to announce that Noga Zerubavel, Ph.D. and I will be conducting a clinical workshop at the upcoming meeting of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies in San Francisco on Friday, June 26th. If you are at the conference please join our In-Congress Workshop #17, Integrating Mindfulness with Clinical Precision: Strategic Practice Selection in CBT. We will be presenting some ideas from our recently published book, and offering a discount for those who want to order the book prior to July 30th (see below for online coupon code). Hope to see some of you there! #WCCBT #miamiuniversitypsychology
Therapists are increasingly integrating mindfulness into CBT, drawing on a strong evidence base. When choosing mindfulness practices, clinicians often default to selecting based on familiarity, habit, or preference, rather than intentional alignment with treatment goals. Process-based CBTs grant the therapist great flexibility regarding to practice selection (in contrast to protocols) that is best leveraged therapeutically when the clinician is using strategic selection of mindfulness practices. Strategic practice selection is an opportunity for clinical decision-making, strengthening the clinical precision of mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention.
In this workshop, Drs. Zerubavel and Messman provide a systematic, transdiagnostic approach in which the clinician draws on case conceptualization to strategically select a mechanism of mindfulness, leading to a menu of relevant practices options. This approach is based on Hölzel and colleagues’ (2011) framework, which integrated conceptual and neural perspectives to distinguish four interconnected mechanisms of mindfulness: 1) attentional focus, 2) body awareness, 3) emotion regulation, and 4) changes in perspective. Drs. Zerubavel and Messman will provide recommendations for a variety of mindfulness practices that facilitate cultivation of the relevant processes. The workshop includes experiential mindfulness practices; however, it primarily emphasizes didactics as the focal goal is clinical decision-making in mindfulness integration. Participants will learn to use strategic mindfulness practice selection as an implementation choice point, creating an opportunity for enhanced tailoring and more precise targeting.
Therapists are increasingly integrating mindfulness into CBT, drawing on a strong evidence base. When choosing mindfulness practices, clinicians often default to selecting based on familiarity, habit, or preference, rather than intentional alignment with treatment goals. Process-based CBTs grant the therapist great flexibility regarding to practice selection (in contrast to protocols) that is best leveraged therapeutically when the clinician is using strategic selection of mindfulness practices. Strategic practice selection is an opportunity for clinical decision-making, strengthening the clinical precision of mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention.
In this workshop, Drs. Zerubavel and Messman provide a systematic, transdiagnostic approach in which the clinician draws on case conceptualization to strategically select a mechanism of mindfulness, leading to a menu of relevant practices options. This approach is based on Hölzel and colleagues’ (2011) framework, which integrated conceptual and neural perspectives to distinguish four interconnected mechanisms of mindfulness: 1) attentional focus, 2) body awareness, 3) emotion regulation, and 4) changes in perspective. Drs. Zerubavel and Messman will provide recommendations for a variety of mindfulness practices that facilitate cultivation of the relevant processes. The workshop includes experiential mindfulness practices; however, it primarily emphasizes didactics as the focal goal is clinical decision-making in mindfulness integration. Participants will learn to use strategic mindfulness practice selection as an implementation choice point, creating an opportunity for enhanced tailoring and more precise targeting.
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San Francisco Marriott Marquis, 780 Mission Street,San Francisco, California, United States
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Host or PublisherTrauma and Emotion Regulation Laboratory
