MCC 8063 Advanced Seminar: Mindfulness Based Counseling

This course will provide an overview of the construct of mindfulness and its applications in the clinical mental health counseling field.  Students will be given instruction to help them to establish a personal mindfulness practice.  In addition, students will review current treatment approaches that utilize mindfulness, including Mindfulness Based Cognitive therapies, Mindfulness Based addiction therapies, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.  Students of this course will be prepared to be mindfulness based in their counseling practice, and will have the prerequisite to pursue training as a mindfulness teacher from programs that provide that certification.