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• Identify how anxious children and adults have impaired brain development leading to mental health deficits, and how this informs the clinician's choice of treatment interventions
• Summarize research on mindfulness practices, the relaxation response, and brain development and how the research informs clinical treatment interventions
• Describe mindfulness-based skills and their applications for clinical therapy, including meditation and non-meditation alternatives
• Demonstrate how practicing mindfulness can help clients reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, addiction, or emotional regulation disorders
• Develop mindfulness-based solutions for real world client problems, such school failure, delinquency, poor ability to keep jobs, and unstable relationships

THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF MINDFULNESS

• Our brains are social by nature
• The foundation is set during the first year of life
• “Relational trauma” according to Schore
• The limbic system
• Frontal lobe development
• The “Executive” control center
• Neurotransmitters
• DNA telomeres

 

iNVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL BENEFITS OF MINDFULNESS

• Evolution of the cortex and survival
• Fear and anxiety resolved through relationships including spiritual
• Intimacy and the mirror neurons
• The development of attunement
• Intimacy skills:
  • Self-awareness
  • Empathy
  • Communication of emotions
  • Conflict resolution
  • Sustaining commitment
• The neurobiology of mindfulness meditation
• Emotional benefits of mindfulness

 

mINDFULNESS AND EMOTIONAL REGULATION

• The evolutionary function of fear and anxiety
• Fast and slow circuits
• Fears and anxieties
• Stress and hippocampal damage
• Regulating fear

 

eLICITING The Relaxation Response:  Research of Herbert Benson

• Eastern meditation and visualization
• Gains through Benson’s method
• Genes expressed differently
  • Anxiety and depression
  • Cancer
  • Heart disease
  • The relaxation response also elicited by:
    • Physical exercise
    • Music
    • Repetitive prayers
• Benson’s eight-step program for eliciting the relaxation response

 

Mindfulness in Mental Health Treatment

• Mechanisms of action
  • Focusing on the present
  • Definition of Shapiro and Kubat-Zinn –self-regulation and self-management
  • Re-perceiving non-judgmentally
• Eight themes of Teasdale, Williams, and Segal
• Rogers' mindfulness exercise
• Mindfulness, spirituality, and cultural competence
• The therapist's mindfulness attitudes:
  • Self-compassion and attunement
  • Empathy and attunement with others
  • Emotional regulation

 

 Eastern and Western Meditation

• History of Eastern and Western meditation
• The "Desert Fathers"
• Evolution of meditation and contemplation
• Neuroscience of meditation and contemplation
• Maslow's self-actualizing characteristics and meditation
• Attachment theory, meditation and self-actualization
• Newberg's research on the "Centering Prayer" of Keating

 

Mindfulness training and interventions for

• Children and adolescents
• Emotional regulation disorders
• Chronic depression
• Anxiety disorders
• Addiction treatment

 

Case Study

• Mindfulness practices help penitentiary inmate form an intimate relationship and develop responsible parenting skills

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Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

Continuing Education Information
This educational offering is designed to qualify for continuing education for many professionals in every state.


Materials that are included in this course could include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice for your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.


Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this educational offering. Please note, your state licensing board dictates what is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact customerservice@vyne.com or 800-397-0180.


CE information is based on 100% attendance.

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Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors

This educational offering has been approved by Vyne Education, LLC., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 5.5 continuing education hours. NAADAC Provider #77600, Vyne Education, LLC. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Content includes elements of one of the NAADAC 8 Counselor Skills Group. Full attendance is required to receive credit, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the NAADAC guidelines.

Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors - California: Provider approved by CCAPP-EI, Provider Number OS-07-902-1117 for 5.5 CEH’s.

Counselors: This educational offering qualifies for 5.5 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Counselors - Illinois: Vyne Education, LLC. is a registered counselor continuing education sponsor approved through the State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (license # 197-000144). This educational offering is offered for five and half (5.5) contact hours of continuing education for counselors. Licensed counselors in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Counselors - New York: Vyne Education, LLC., is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0027. This educational offering is acceptable for 5.5 continuing education hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit for Mental Health Counselors; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.

Counselors - Ohio
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This educational offering is offered for five and half (5.5) clock hours of continuing education for counselors only. Licensed counselors in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Counselors - South Carolina: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This educational offering is offered for 5.5 continuing education hours.

Counselor - Texas: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor of continuing education for licensed professional counselors through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors (Provider number 2709). This course is offered for 5.5 clock hours.

Counselors - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 5.5 hours of continuing education credit.

Counselors - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 5.5 continuing education credits.

Marriage & Family Therapists: This educational offering qualifies for 5.5 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Illinois: Vyne Education, LLC. is a registered marriage and family therapist continuing education sponsor approved through the State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (license # 168-000172). This educational offering is offered for five and half 5.5 contact hours of continuing education for marriage and family therapist. Licensed marriage and family therapist in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Marriage & Family Therapists - New York: Vyne Education, LLC., is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0020. This educational offering is acceptable for 5.5 continuing education hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit for Marriage and Family Therapists; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Ohio
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved through the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board (provider #RCT091001). This educational offering is offered for five and half (5.5) clock hours of continuing education for marriage family therapists only. Licensed marriage and family therapists in other states should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal.

Marriage & Family Therapists - South Carolina: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor with the South Carolina Board of Examiners for LPC, AC and MFTs (Provider #104). This educational offering is offered for 5.5 continuing education hours.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Texas: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved sponsor of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider number 195). This educational offering is offered for 5.5 clock hours.

Marriage & Family Therapists - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 5.5 hours of continuing education credit.

Marriage & Family Therapists - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 5.5 continuing education credits.

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Psychologists
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Vyne Education, LLC. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This educational offering offers 5.5 CE credits for psychologists. Full attendance is required to receive credit for psychologist, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the APA guidelines.

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Social Workers

Vyne Education, LLC. provider #1005, "formerly Cross Country Education" is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program (an approved provider since 1999, approved period 1/27/2018-1/27/2021). Vyne Education, LLC. maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers will receive 5.5 Clinical continuing education clock hours for participating in this educational offering. Licensed social workers should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Visit ASWB's website at www.aswb.org for more information. This educational offering is at the Intermediate level for social workers.

Social Workers - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 5.5 continuing education credits.

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Social Workers - New York
Vyne Education, LLC., SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed Social Workers #0043. This educational offering is acceptable for 5.5 continuing education hours. Full attendance is required to receive credit for Social Workers; variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the State Board guidelines.

Social Workers - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 5.5 hours of continuing education credit.

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Other Professions
This educational offering qualifies for 5.5 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

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Educators: This educational offering may qualify toward your professional development requirement. The educational offering consists of 5.5 clock hours. Use this information and your board rules and regulations to calculate professional development/continuing education credit.

• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors
• Educators
• Case Managers
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners