INSTRUCTOR NAMES: Fran Zamore, LCSW-C and Michael Shea, LICSW
Website: www.franzamore.com; www.mindfulmatters-dc.com
Category: Cat 1 | CE Credit Hours: 3.0 (per workshop)
This is a 3-part Series:
Workshop 1: Reduction of Depression Symptoms through Mind-Body Techniques (10/14/2016)
Workshop 2: Reduction of Anxiety Symptoms through Mind-Body Techniques (1/13/2017)
Workshop 3: Reduction of Grief Symptoms Through Mind-Body Techniques (4/21/2017)
Participants can attend one workshop or the entire series.
DESCRIPTION:
This didactic and experiential workshop series will explore a variety of mind-body skills that social workers and therapists can use to support themselves and can easily utilize as interventions with clients. The techniques are medically proven to calm the central nervous system, activate the parasympathetic nervous system and the frontal lobe. These techniques are applicable to many diagnoses; this series will address the diagnoses of depression, anxiety, and grief.
Workshop I: Reduction of Depression Symptoms through Mind-Body Techniques
COURSE OBJECTIVES: By the conclusion of the class, participants should be able to…(a minimum of 4):
- Participants will learn the research based underpinnings of mind-body medicine as it relates to depression.
- Participants will learn a relaxing breathing technique that is medically proven to calm the central nervous system.
- Participants will experience the benefits of a specific writing technique.
- Participants will learn a technique specifically designed to help clients get physically, mentally and emotionally unstuck using movement.
SPECIFIC AGENDA:
9:00- 9:10 – Welcome and introduction of topic
9:10-9:15 – Brief meditation
9:15-9:30 – Introduction of participants
9:30-10:00 – Overview of mind-body approach
10:00-10:30 – Soft-belly breathing exercise and processing
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-11:15 – Dialogue with a symptom and processing
11:15-12:00 – Shaking and dancing and processing
12:00-12:15 –Wrap-up
RECOMMENDED BOOKS/BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Gordon, J. S., Staples, J. K., Blyta, A., Bytyqi, M., & Wilson, A. T. (2008). Treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in postwar Kosovar adolescents using mind-body skills groups: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69, 1469–1476.
Gordon, JS. Holistic medicine and mental health practice: toward a new synthesis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 1990; 60(3); 357-370.
Kessler R, et al. The use of complementary and alternative therapies to treat anxiety and depression in the United States. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2001; 158: 289-294.
Richardson, Mary Ann, et al. Complementary/alternative medicine use in a comprehensive cancer center and the implications for oncology. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2000; 18:2505-14.
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The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/11/mantras-before-math-class/412618/
Washington Post, Sept 2, 2015 article “How to communicate like a Buddhist— mindfully and without judgment” by Cynthia Kayne http://wapo.st/1UmuRFL
Mindfulness: and eight-week plan for finding Peace in a frantic world by Mark Williams and Danny Penman
Calming your anxious mind; how mindfulness and compassion can free you from anxiety, fear, and panic by Jeffrey Brantley, MD
Grieving Mindfully. By Sameet M. Kumar, Ph.D.
