Working with Trauma - Mindfulness and Compassion

Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational

There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

TRAINING

Course Description

Improve your trauma-informed practice with this course on mindfulness and compassion. When clinicians respond to trauma, they generally turn to the range of therapeutic interventions that have been developed. These include exposure therapy, cognitive therapy and relational psychotherapy. The course explores and compares these therapeutic interventions before outlining specific ways in which therapist mindfulness and compassion might benefit survivors of trauma. Compassion originates as an empathic response to suffering, as a rational process which pursues patients’ wellbeing through specific, ethical actions directed at finding a solution to their suffering. In Western psychotherapy, compassion is often seen as grounded in mindfulness, the capacity to sustain focused awareness and openness to immediate environment.

Benefits of compassion and mindfulness are well-documented. When applied to Trauma survivors, they encourage the redevelopment of social connections that may have been lost and may therefore prove to be a extremely beneficial (Gilbert, 2009a). The course goes into considerate detail on the direct and indirect benefits of compassion and mindfulness, and suggests a variety of methods through which practitioners can cultivate them effectively.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training the professional will:

• Identify common approaches to trauma.
• Describe ways that therapist mindfulness and compassion can and might benefit survivors of trauma.

John Briere
&
C.K. Germer & R.D. Siegel

Christopher Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Arlington, Massachusetts, specializing in mindfulness and compassion-based psychotherapy.
Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD, is Assistant Professor of Psychology, part time at Harvard Medical School, where he has taught for over 30 years. He is a long-time student of mindfulness meditation and serves on the board of directors and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.

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