Mindfulness in Psychology

Course Description

This course is designed to provide students with a historical overview of mindfulness literature. In this light, an overview of the terminological origins of mindfulness, alongside with a selection of 1990s and 2000s seminal works on elaborating the concept will be discussed. Additional emphasis will be put on the functions and strategical implementation of mindfulness skills both in formal and informal settings; and relevant literature on state and trait assessment of such skills will be covered. The cognitive flexibility and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) processes literature, research on nonattachment and nature connectedness are amongst the introductory reading assignments covering contemporary topics of focus in current research.

Mindfulness in Psychology

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Program Outcomes

1. P01 to compare and criticize contemporary psychotherapy approaches
2. P02 to make specific psychotherapy techniques under supervision
3. P03 to pull together interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary studies
4. P04 to follow national and international publications and to participate scientific meetings for be informed about innovations and developments
5. P05 to conduct informing activities about Community Mental Health
6. P06 to practice all the time within the frame of profession and ethical principles of clinical psychology
7. P07 to examine psychological researches with critical point of view
8. P08 to conduct scientific research with combining clinical applications to analyze and interpret research results
9. P09 to analyze and interpret research results
10. P10 to identify, to diagnose and analyze and explain the lifelong psychological disorders
11. P11 to assess and diagnose individual basically
12. P12 to know and apply basic psychological help and intervention

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