Continuing Education Credit (CEs)
•Healthcare professionals may be able to earn continuing education credit for their participation in the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course.
Psychologists
Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 27.0 CE credit.
California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs
Continuing Education Credit for this program is provided by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 27.0 CE credit may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if CE credit is accepted.
Nurses
UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 32.0 contact hours.
Objectives
These classes are created with specific objectives in mind and adhere to the educational requirements for CE credit.
01
Identify the key aspects of mindfulness as it relates to stress reduction, coping with pain and illness and enhancing well-being
02
Articulate the difference between MBSR from relaxation and other distraction techniques that may seem similar but are fundamentally and theoretically quite different in contending with difficulty and enhancing quality of life
03
Apply mindfulness techniques in both personal and professional settings as a means of contending more effectively with the demands of both settings
04
Apply mindfulness into social interaction with patients, colleagues, supervisors, family and friends to facilitate more effective and mindful communication
05
Describe the potential benefits of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (and mindfulness in general) to educate patients and their families about the benefits of such programs in their own lives
06
Utilize brief mindfulness practices with patients and family members as a means of contending with acute pain, anxiety and distress
Drew Buss, MS Ed
Psychotherapist and Mindfulness Teacher
Drew Buss, MS Ed., is a psychotherapist in Lincoln, NE. He started counseling in Nebraska in 1996 and began his formal mindfulness practice in 2011.
He is a fully Certified Teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction as trained through the University of California San Diego School of Medicine’s Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute and a Certified Mindfulness Teacher – Professional through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.