Institute for Creative Mindfulness

Read the book "EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma-Focused Care' by Dr. Jamie Marich & Dr. Stephen Dansiger. Explore the study guide, take the test, and earn EMDRIA advanced credits! (Cost of book is separate from the course).

Description

Based on the belief that mindfulness is a critical component in the delivery of EMDR, this innovative text integrates mindfulness-informed practice with EMDR therapy to create an effective new approach for healing trauma. Based on current evidence-based research, the book demonstrates—with clear, step-by-step guidelines--how clinicians can conceptualize and deliver trauma focused care in both mental health and addiction treatment. Infused with practical applications, the book provides clearly articulated and effective approaches that provide a concrete beginning, middle, and end of treatment planning.

Following a description of the long history of mindfulness practices, the book offers guidelines for developing one’s own mindfulness practice—emphasizing the use of trauma focused language--and suggestions for teaching specific techniques to clients. The book describes both classic and creative mindfulness practices, including breath awareness/sensory grounding, breath meditation, body scanning, feeling tone meditation, labeling, standing meditation, walking meditation, and lovingkindness meditation, along with using day-to-day objects as a meditative focus, movement practices, the expressive arts, and other forms of creativity.



Key Features:

(1) Offers a complete framework for healing trauma by integrating mindfulness-informed practice with EMDR therapy


(2) Provides clearly articulated, step-by-step approaches that are evidence-based


(3) Authored by noted experts in EMDR and mindfulness-based therapies


(4) Includes guidelines for developing one’s own mindfulness practice and tools for teaching specific practices to clients


(5) Describes both classic and creative mindfulness practices

Objectives:

After reading this book, accessing the supplementary materials in the course platform and taking the test, participants will be able to:

1. To define mindfulness in a classic sense and explain the meaning of mindfulness-informed interventions as a modern clinical term
2. To summarize the history of how mindfulness practice and mind-body medicine played a formative role in Shapiro’s development of EMDR therapy 
3. To apply no fewer than five mindfulness-informed interventions in clinical situations, particularly as a component of EMDR Therapy Phase 2, making appropriate adaptations in the spirit of trauma focused care
4. To explain how client grounding in mindfulness practice helps with distress tolerance in Phases 3-6 of standard protocol EMDR therapy, particularly for widening a client’s affective window of tolerance and managing difficult situations around abreaction
5. To translate the mindfulness-infused skills covered in Phase 2 of EMDR therapy to solidifying an effective closure plan in Phase 7
6. To discuss how fusing mindfulness-informed interventions and EMDR therapy offers a new solution for delivering trauma focused care in mental health and addiction services