Spiritual Competency Academy

Spiritual Assessment: An Evidence-Informed, Ethically-Sensitive and Strength-Based Approach

This course trains you in the foundational spiritual competency: How to conduct an a spiritual assessment with clients. This will enable you to elicit information for treatment planning and build a stronger therapeutic alliance.

Mindfulness as a Complementary and Integrative Medicine

This course focuses on the research support for meditation and mindfulness as forms of complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) and its changing patterns of usage.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)

This course describes the theory and research behind Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a system of therapy that combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with mindfulness meditation. The research and theory behind DBT are reviewed in this online course.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

An empirically validated psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies mixed in different ways with commitment and cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy.

The Origins of Mindfulness Research: Herbert Benson

Herbert Benson, MD's pioneering research on the relaxation response helped established the efficacy of meditation for healthcare. Research and theory on the Relaxation Response is introduced in this online course.