Mindfulness in Clinical Practice University of Melbourne

Overview

What you will study

In a world filled with uncertainty, mindfulness is an increasingly sought-after treatment. It's crucial that practitioners are drawing on an evidence base.

This Mindfulness in Clinical Practice course offered by University of Melbourne is ideal for health practitioners across a range of settings – including allied, clinical and educational – seeking the skills and confidence to offer clinical mindfulness practices to clients or patients and ensure their knowledge is backed by the latest research.

Relevance to your job and industry

• This micro-credential has been developed in close consultation with industry, to ensure your learning can be immediately applied to your own professional context. It is aligned with the industry standards and registration frameworks of groups including the Australian Psychology Society and the Australian Clinical Psychology Association.

Learning outcome

By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of clinical mindfulness tools and techniques and how to implement them in your own practice. You'll be able to:

• Integrate and understand theoretical and practical aspects of mindfulness, its benefits, appropriate applications and relationship to research evidence
• Integrate and understand how clinical mindfulness relates to client self-knowledge, wellbeing and behaviour change
• Select and apply clinical mindfulness techniques based on underlying theory and appropriate applications for conducting mindfulness activities with clients.