Donald Sloane – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness

Donald Sloane – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness are two cutting-edge evidence-based psychotherapy treatments nowadays. These strategies, when combined, are extremely useful in the treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders. Even diseases that have previously been proven to be resistant to therapy, such as substance misuse and personality disorders, are responding to this novel combination of therapeutic techniques. Researchers have been able to observe structural changes in the brain as a result of Mindfulness practice thanks to the development of MRI. Other studies have shown that combining CBT with Mindfulness greatly lowers relapses.

By viewing this seminar tape, you will learn not only the fundamental skills of CBT and Mindfulness, but also how to use more advanced approaches. This method is intended to both enlighten individuals who are new to this discipline and to give more sophisticated clinical alternatives to those who are already familiar with the fundamentals. The session will feature PowerPoint slides, case studies, and hands-on learning.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness are two evidence-based techniques.
To cure depression, combine mindfulness training with CBT.
Incorporate mindfulness into CBT treatments.
Use sophisticated approaches.

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Explain the most recent study findings about the efficacy of CBT and mindfulness.
Determine symptom-specific therapy procedures that include CBT and mindfulness techniques.
Describe the three levels of cognition and how they relate to our various mental states.
Combine the seven-column thought record with the four fundamental mindfulness training procedures. Implement therapies to assist anxious clients in dealing with cognitive distortions and habitual maladaptive breathing.
Assess therapy progress and client preparedness for more advanced procedures.

OUTLINE

How CBT and Mindfulness Interact
CBT and Mindfulness Overview
CBT thought logs contain automatic thoughts and basic beliefs.
East versus west perspectives on mindfulness

The 4-by-4 breathing method is a basic mindfulness exercise.
How breathing relates to stress
Mindfulness practice and the function of thoughts

Evidence-Based Treatment Strategies for Depression and Anxiety
What does the most recent study indicate about the efficacy of CBT?
What do the most recent neuroscience research on mindfulness have to say?
Mindfulness is being used in conjunction with CBT to treat panic attacks and generalized anxiety.
Relapse prevention with mindfulness in depression
Mindfulness for anger control and self-development
CBT and mindfulness are used in tandem to treat chronic pain.

Intermediate Level CBT and Mindfulness as applied to body sensations, feelings, thoughts, and events
Mindfulness paired with thought recordings and exposure
In daily living, mindfulness in action
Developing and adhering to a regular routine

An Intermediate Mindfulness Exercise that Combines Thought Records with Mindfulness
Feelings/thoughts awareness
The conundrum of letting go

Advanced Techniques for Addressing Core Belief Schema Beyond empathy: cultivating unconditional compassion in CBT Mind training
Acceptance that is radical
More riddles and paradoxes

A More Advanced CBT Mindfulness Exercise: Unqualified compassion cultivation changes core belief system.

Questions and Answers

DONALD SLOANE, LCSW ABOUT

Donald F. Sloane, LCSW, Director of the Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in St. Louis, has over 30 years of clinical experience and has used Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for the past 25 years. From 1982 to 1987, he was the coordinator of out-patient and in-patient programs at Jewish Hospital’s Behavioral Medicine Center, specializing in relaxation training, biofeedback, and cognitive behavioral treatment of a variety of stress and pain-related disorders, as well as depression and anxiety disorders. His work with a phobic patient was praised in Newsweek, May 1986.

Don also taught various courses on Cognitive and Behavior Therapy at Washington University’s George Warren School of Social Work for over 15 years. During the 1990s, Don attended a half dozen courses on Cognitive Therapy training led by Christine Padesky, Ph.D.

Don is a lay ordained Chan Buddhist teacher as well. He started meditation practice in 1969 under the supervision of Ho Kuang-Chung. That same year, he began practicing yoga. Don studied T’ai Chi at the Cheng Man-ch’ing School in New York in the early 1970s. He then studied under Al Chung-liang Huang (author of Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain) and, from 1976 to 1983, developed and ran the T’ai Chi Institute of St. Louis. Later, he studied with a Tibetan Lama from the Kagyu school, acquiring different meditation methods, notably Mind Training (Lo Jong). Don has returned to the Chan (Zen) tradition of meditation for the last five years. He has adopted the Linji tradition’s lay precepts and vows. His piece on Karma was featured in the Spring 2007 issue of Right View magazine.

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