Develop in-demand skills aligned with industry best practice you can apply immediately.
Taught by leading experts
Learn from internationally recognised academics and professionals with years of on the ground experience.
Shareable digital certificate
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What you will learn
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
In a world filled with uncertainty, mindfulness is an increasingly sought-after treatment. It's crucial that practitioners are drawing on an evidence base.
This course is ideal for health practitioners across a range of settings – including allied, clinical and educational – seeking the skills and confidence to offer clinical mindfulness practices to clients or patients and ensure their knowledge is backed by the latest research.
Learning is aligned with industry standards and registration frameworks of groups including the Australian Psychology Society and the Australian Clinical Psychology Association.
Explore clinical mindfulness techniques, applications and research
Gain a strong grounding in mindfulness and clinical mindfulness techniques and applications, and explore their efficacy. Integrate and understand theoretical and practical aspects of mindfulness, its benefits, and its relationship to research.
Understand how mindfulness influences behaviour change
Develop your understanding of how clinical mindfulness relates to client self-knowledge, wellbeing and behaviour change. Draw on research and evidence to decide when it's appropriate to use mindfulness as an intervention to support mental health.
Apply clinical mindfulness techniques
Reference underlying theory to identify how to appropriately select and apply mindfulness activities with your clients. Put your knowledge into practice by preparing for a clinical mindfulness session with a patient or client, and explain your approach.
Who you will learn from
Learn from skilled academics and professional experts who will share invaluable knowledge you can use in your job.
Dr Stephen McKenzie
Senior lecturer
Stephen is an expert on mindfulness and has written several books on the subject, including Mindfulness for Life, Mindfulness at Work, and Heartfulness: beyond mindfulness, finding your real life.
More from this series
Take multiple courses to deepen your knowledge or stack towards a full degree.
The Health Leadership suite
This series draws on key psychology tools and techniques, including mindfulness, resilience and behaviour change, to give leaders the capacity to enhance worker and workplace wellbeing
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.
Relevance to your job and industry
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.
Skills and learning outcomes
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.
Workload and assessment
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%).
Your digital certificate
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.
Pathways to further study
Mindfulness in Clinical Practice can be taken as a stand-alone course or complemented with any other micro-credential in the Health Leadership suite.
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.
Expiry of micro-credential
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.
