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Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
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This free course, Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings, introduces the key ideas and practices of mindfulness, describes how it is helping counselling clients and prisoners, and also looks at some of the criticisms mindfulness has received in recent years.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- define mindfulness
- practise mindfulness in daily life
- understand how mindfulness can help clients with mental health difficulties
- describe how mindfulness can be useful in prison settings
- critically evaluate ‘the mindfulness movement’.
First Published: 31/03/2017
Updated: 22/07/2019
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I appreciate the opportunity to attend this course. It has improved my knowledge especially in the areas of promoting the psychological health of inmates during the early period of imprisonment when stress and trauma are highest. I will be using the concepts of Mindfulness in some of my project aimed at prisoners integration and adjustment to confinment. Thanks to the course developer(s).