Part 1: Mindfulness can have a wide range of positive impacts, including helping with depression, anxiety, addiction, and many other mental illnesses or difficulties.
The practice can help those suffering from harmful automatic thoughts to disengage from rumination and obsession by helping them stay firmly grounded in the present (Jain et al., 2007).
Mindfulness meditations, in particular, can function as helpful tools for your clients in between therapy sessions, such as to help ground them in the present moment during times of stress.
For this assignment, you will practice your own mindfulness activity and write a 1-page single-spaced reflection on your experience. How was your experience? What did you notice? What was challenging about it? How would it be to do this with a client? You are welcome to google/youtube a mindfulness video of your choice, or I have provided one below. If you choose your own video, please make sure it is at least 5 minutes long. Please include the link to the meditation you used in your paper.
Part 2: One of the “issues in therapy” covered is the various approaches/theories that are used. Of the ones discussed thus far, which one do you think is the most effective/helpful to use in therapy with clients? This assignment has 2 parts:
1) Find a schoarly research article that discusses the approach/theory that you choose to answer this question. (For example, if you choose humanistic as the best therapy approach, find an article about humanistic therapy that highlights why this theory is effective).
2) Write a 1-2 page reflection on why you chose the theory that you did. In the reflection, incluse the article you chose and discuss the findings. Also include skills and techniques from the theory/approach.
The essay I chose is attached below. The citation for it is: Wong, Paul T. P. (2017). Meaning-Centered Approach to Research and Therapy, Second Wave Positive Psychology, and the Future of Humanistic Psychology. The Humanistic Psychologist, 45(3), 207-216.
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