Mindfulness in Clinical Practice

This micro-credential is ideal for a range of health professionals including psychologists, medical practitioners, and allied health workers who are looking to expand the breadth of their practice. You may be a psychologist, school counsellor, social worker, medical practitioner, nurse, or allied health professional.

To undertake this course, you should hold a bachelor's degree in any discipline, but there are no other specific eligibility requirements. You do not need to be a clinician or have access to clients.

This micro-credential has been developed in close consultation with industry, to ensure your learning can be immediately applied to your own professional context. It is aligned with the industry standards and registration frameworks of groups including the Australian Psychology Society and the Australian Clinical Psychology Association.

By the end of this course, you'll have a deeper understanding of clinical mindfulness tools and techniques and how to implement them in your own practice. You'll be able to:

• Integrate and understand theoretical and practical aspects of mindfulness, its benefits, appropriate applications and relationship to research evidence
• Integrate and understand how clinical mindfulness relates to client self-knowledge, wellbeing and behaviour change
• Select and apply clinical mindfulness techniques based on underlying theory and appropriate applications for conducting mindfulness activities with clients.

Mindfulness in Clinical Practice is a largely self-paced course, delivered over three modules. It can be completed in approximately 40 hours, though we recommend you complete it over three to six weeks.

You'll undertake approximately:

• 12 hours guided online learning
• 25 hours independent study, including a short reflective journal
• 3 hours assessment tasks

Assessment:

• Multiple choice quizzes (35%)
• A structured one-pager preparing the clinical mindfulness session (25%)
• Short clinical practice video (40%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Mindfulness in Clinical Practice micro-credential. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your micro-credential digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.

Mindfulness in Clinical Practice can be taken as a stand-alone course or complemented with any other micro-credential in the Health Leadership suite.

The suite includes:

• Behaviour Change in Clinical Practice
• Mindfulness in Clinical Practice

This is a fully online and largely self-paced course, which provides a convenient way to develop your skill set within a time frame that suits you.

Throughout the course, you'll work through a series of linked online modules to build your knowledge of clinical mindfulness. You'll utilise an interactive online workbook that links to supporting videos, readings and your eJournal.

The course also features an optional interactive Q&A session, giving you the opportunity to engage with course lecturers and ask questions. You'll also partake in a discussion board with your fellow practitioners, creating a valuable community that will be continued after the course is completed.

This micro-credential will expire five years from the date of issue as particular knowledge and/or skills may either become outdated or need to be refreshed.