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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

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Overview

This free course, Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings, introduces the key ideas and practices of mindfulness, describes how it is helping counselling clients and prisoners, and also looks at some of the criticisms mindfulness has received in recent years.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Mindfulness
  • 1 Mindfulness
  • 1.1 Experiencing mindfulness
  • 2 Mindful therapy
  • 2 Mindful therapy
  • 2.1 Bringing mindfulness into therapy
  • 3 Mindfulness in prisons
  • 3 Mindfulness in prisons
  • 3.1 Experiencing meditation in prison
  • 4 Criticisms of mindfulness
  • 4 Criticisms of mindfulness
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Acknowledgements

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