Mindful Self-Care in the Service of Health Care: An Embodied Approach

Therapist wellbeing affects the delivery of therapeutic services and outcomes. Mindful self-care is an embodied approach to cultivating ongoing experience of support and constructive coping that promotes positive therapeutic processes. This webinar will provide a theoretical overview of mindful self-care, embodiment, and its context in overall therapeutic approaches that can serve both you and your clients. Next, each of the domains of mindful self-care assessment, empirical support for the construct, as well as the set of actionable mindful self-care items will be reviewed. The Mindful Self-Care Scale will be shared with the group for personal and professional use.

Original webcast date: April 29, 2020

• Define mindful self-care and list the specific actionable practices or which it is comprised.
• Compute a mindful self-care score by domain and design a personal self-care strategy with specific, actionable goals.
• Create a personal resilience plan that ingrates mindful self-care assessment and commitment to purpose and mission.

Catherine P. Cook-Cottone, PhD