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1. Motivate clients to engage in treatment with understandable psychoeducational explanations regarding the research and practices associated with mindfulness.
2. Formulate treatment plans for anxiety that include mindfulness techniques that can be used to regulate the client’s arousal state.
3. Integrate mindfulness interventions into therapy that can help depressed clients manage negative thoughts and reduce the risk of relapse.
4. Articulate how mindfulness training can be used as an adjunctive therapy with evidence-based treatment to enhance attention in clients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
5. Communicate how mindfulness-based approaches can help clients observe internal reactions and establish how this information can be used in the treatment of posttraumatic stress symptoms.
6. Instruct clients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) on the utilization of mindfulness skills that can facilitate disengagement from repetitive thoughts.

Mindfulness – the Neurobiology of Brain Changes

• Neuroplasticity and the brain Evidence for Mindfulness as a treatment
• Brain changes for specific disorders

4 Steps to Integrate Mindfulness into Clinical Practice

• How to teach Mindfulness in session
• Techniques to increase client use of Mindfulness at home
• Strategies for processing what happens with your client
• Strategies to identify and overcome obstacles & resistance

Mindfulness Strategies for Specific Disorders

• Mindfulness of breath
• Present moment awareness
• Core practice
• Mindfulness of thoughts
• Mindfulness of tasks
• Mindfulness of intention
• Mindfulness of intuition
• Plus many more

Anxiety & Depression

• Calm the arousal state and relax mind and body
• Reduce anxious thoughts
• Focus on the present
• Decrease negative thoughts
• Shift and improve mood state & increase pleasure

PTSD

• Calm the arousal state Improve ability to stay grounded in the present
• Reduce traumatic thoughts

Panic & OCD

• Reduce frequency and intensity of panic attacks
• Increase awareness of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors
• Decrease obsessive thinking and compulsions

Bipolar Disorder

• Increase awareness of mood state
• Stabilize mood over time

ADHD

• Improve concentration
• Increase task completion
• Reduce hyperactivity

Pain & Sleep

• Accept and embrace the pain
• Calm busy thoughts
• Relax the mind and body
• Fall asleep and stay asleep

Dr. Bries Erik Deerrose, is a licensed, clinical psychologist in Denver, Colorado. He works as a consulting psychologist with the Department of Veterans Affairs and is a member of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists. He completed undergraduate and graduate work at Stanford University, Stanford Medical School, and the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. He has been trained in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and has studied mindfulness experientially with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has seen the benefits of mindfulness incorporated into Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Dialectic Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Behavior Therapy for a range of presenting issues and clients. Dr. Deerose has utilized mindfulness in clinical work across an array of setting, and focuses on empirical, research-informed practices. Dr. Deerose is a co-founder of Workings of Wellbeing, a non-profit seeking to spread awareness of evidence-based psychological principles to enhance health, happiness, and work effectiveness. He has authored several publications and presentations and has provided numerous trainings on clinical, psychoeducational, and organizational topics. He is also an active member of the American Psychological Association and a committee chair for the Society of Consulting Psychology.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Bries Erik Deerrose has an employment relationship with the Department of Veterans Affairs. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Bries Erik Deerrose is a member of the American Psychological Association.

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