Mindfulness-Informed Psychotherapy: Inquiring Deeply

In this intermediate level continuing education course, Dr. Marjorie Schuman will discuss mindfulness-informed psychotherapy, compare the overlap and differences between mindfulness and psychotherapy, highlight the basic assumptions of relational psychotherapy, and describe elements involved in transformative conversation.

Dr. Schuman will also explore a mindfulness-informed paradigm for clinical exploration in psychotherapy, “Inquiring Deeply,” which uses Buddhist methods of awareness practice (mindfulness, investigation, and inquiry) to amplify and unpack psychological experience. Through the meditative process of asking questions and listening deeply for answers, one can consciously engage one's experience of problems in an ongoing way which invites the wisdom within to unfold. Informed both by the teachings of Buddhism and by relational psychoanalytic theory, this practice weaves together awareness practice and psychodynamic understanding into a cogent framework that integrates mindfulness into psychotherapy as an aspect of self-reflection.

This intermediate level continuing education course includes experiential guided exercises and is designed to help mental health professionals:

1. Compare and contrast mindfulness and psychotherapy with respect to their purpose and process.
2. State the basic assumptions involved in relational psychotherapy.
3. Identify at least three common misguided existential assumptions that can contribute to psychological problems.

Statement of program material's accuracy, utility, and risks: This program presents clinical method that combines a relational psychotherapeutic approach based in contemporary psychoanalytic theory with a mindfulness-informed strategy based in Buddhist methods of awareness practice (mindfulness, investigation, and inquiry). It is consistent with the ethics code of the American Psychological Association. A body of research supports the idea that all of the elements utilized are effective and safe when properly applied.

Declaration identifying any potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support: Presentation of this material is free from any conflict of interest on the part of the instructor.

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Continuing Education (CE) Information

2 CE contact hours will be provided by GoodTherapy for attending this web conference in its entirety. 

GoodTherapy is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

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GoodTherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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