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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens from Gina M. Biegel

Faculty:Gina M. Biegel

Duration:6 Hours 06 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

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Outline:

Foundational Principles of MBSR-T

Program similarities and differences from adult MBSR and MBSR-T
History of MBSR-T
Theoretical foundations of MBSR-T
The psycho-educational format of MBSR-T
Ethical and moral considerations
The mindful clinician: impact on MBSR-T outcomes
Cultural relevance

Core MBSR-T Curriculum

Awareness of intention, attention and attitude
MBSR-T mechanisms of change
Introduce mindfulness to teens
Define mindfulness for teens
Setting intentions
Formal and informal mindfulness practices in MBSR-T
Foundational pieces to each formal practice
Overcome barriers with silence and breathing
Titration approach to MBSR-T
Use of on-your-own-practices

Stage 1: Development of Broad Awareness and Insight

Mindfulness and the 5 senses
Defining stress from a teen’s perspective
4-Step mindful check-in
Mindful qualities for daily living
Awareness of thoughts
Awareness of mind and body
Body-scan
Sitting practice
Integration to teen’s activities
“Guest House” poem by Rumi

Stage 2: Increases in Present Moment Functioning and Living

Mindful walking
Cultivating self-care: both client and clinician
Heartfulness
Awareness of the positive
Awareness of the negative
Judgments as fact: transforming the narrative
Mindful stopping
Approaching stress, pain and suffering
Stress equals pain times blocking
Reduction of self-harm behaviors
The Harm Awareness Journal

Stage 3: Maintenance and Growth

Mindful homework/test-taking
10 Tips to minimize homework and test-taking stress
Mindful messaging in social media
Mindful communication: listening and reflecting
Awareness of gratitude toward self and others
Building trust: the trust exercise
Review of intentions: pave the way for tomorrow

Evidence-Based Research on MBSR-T

Effects on mental and physical conditions
Research in clinical settings
Research in educational settings
Next steps: current research
The MAAS-A: the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale-Adolescent
MBSR-T adaptations in individual and family psychotherapy

Description:

3-Stage approach for teens to learn mindfulness and create lasting change
Stress the problem – Mindfulness the solution
Give teens the skills to use positive coping skills to manage life’s problems
Promote mindfulness practice outside the clinical hour
Leave with a toolbox of mindful practices you can use right away

Watch this recording and be able to teach teens how to shift their thinking away from impulsive, thoughtless, and judgmental ways of reacting and responding to life and teach them to build on the resources they already have inside. Mindfulness is an anchor for teens to turn to and use when they feel emotionally dysregulated, stressed, anxious and depressed. Teach teens to live rather than just exist in an ever-increasing multi-media stimulated technological environment. Provide more balanced approaches to reacting to life and helping shift the way teens perceive and appraise situations as stressful.

MBSR-T will help teens:

Move from feeling powerless to feeling a sense of agency and control
Decrease reactivity and impulsivity
Shift from negative judgments and perceptions to non-judging with the use of the mindful qualities
Increase positive coping strategies and decrease self-harming thinking and behaviors
Increase health and well-being

Join Gina M. Biegel, LMFT, the founder and creator of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens Program (MBSR-T) to gain practical techniques to help your most challenging clients. She will teach you how to use her evidence-based cutting edge approach with your most challenging teens. Gina is a pioneer in bringing mindfulness to youth, from current brain imaging research at Stanford University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, to a Positive Youth Development Program to Inner City Youth in East Palo Alto.

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About Author

Gina M. Biegel

Gina M. Biegel, LMFT, is a psychotherapist, researcher, speaker, and author in the San Francisco Bay Area who specializes in mindfulness-based work with adolescents. She is founder of Stressed Teens, which has been offering mindfulness-based stress reduction for teens (MBSR-T) to adolescents, families, schools, professionals, and the community since 2004. She created MBSR-T to help teens in a large HMO’s outpatient department of child and adolescent psychiatry whose physical and psychological symptoms were not responding satisfactorily to a multitude of other evidence-based practices.

She is an expert and pioneer of bringing mindfulness-based approaches to youth. She is the author of the Take in the Good: Skills for Staying Positive and Living Your Best Life, The Stress Reduction Card Deck for Teens: 52 Essential Mindfulness Skills,The Self-harm Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help Teens Overcome Cutting and Self-harming Behaviors, Thoughts, and Feelings;Be Mindful & Stress Less: 50 Ways to Deal with Your (Crazy) Life;Mindfulness for Student Athletes: A Workbook to Help Teens Reduce Stress and Enhance Performance;The Stress Reduction Workbook for Teens: Mindfulness Skills to Help You Deal with Stress (first and second edition); and Be Mindful: A Card Deck for Teens. She also has a mindfulness practice audio CD, Mindfulness for Teens: Mindfulness Practices to Reduce Stress and Promote Well-Being to complement the MBSR-T program. She provides worldwide multiday trainings and intensive ten-week online trainings and works with teens and families individually and in groups. Her work has been featured on the Today Show, CNN, Psychology Today, Reuters, the New York Times, and Tricycle to name a few.