PSY 719 - Mindfulness Meditation

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This integrated experiential and scientific course will teach students to manage their own stress and to teach mindfulness-based meditation to others to help them to manage their stress. Scientific studies have shown that meditation practice, as taught in this course, improves various medical and psychological outcomes and improves clinician’s self-awareness. Thus, this meditation course provides a potentially valuable skill to clinicians, both for helping clients and for understanding themselves. The Mindfulness- Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course can be useful in clinical, medical, and corporate settings. We will review methods of assessing mindfulness and scientific studies undergirding our understanding.