1. Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology
Mindfulness at
UEA
Dr Paul Fisher
Personal and Professional Development is a core part of training for all three years here at UEA.
During the 1st year all trainees are offered the chance to attend an 8 week in house Mindfulness programme.
The Mindfulness programme is based on ideas of Jon Kabot-Zinn and others.
Develop self care skills.
Develop increased reflective skills.
Develop intrapersonal skills needed to be a psychologist (e.g. presence).
Learn to experience and deliver a clinically relevant intervention increasingly used in clinical practice.
Hemanth and Fisher (2014, 2015)
Background
To put it another way…
An 8-week hourly group.
Closed group.
Explores various Mindfulness exercises.
Regular practices at home are encouraged.
Trainees invited to deliver exercises.
Facilitated by experienced practitioner
Structure of the group
Why have a Mindfulness group?
Fisher, P. & Hemanth, P. (2015). The development, facilitation and initial evaluation of a mindfulness group for a clinical psychology training course. Clinical Psychology Forum, 266,
Hemanth, P. & Fisher, P. (2014). Clinical Psychology Trainees’ Experiences of Mindfulness: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. Mindfulness doi: /s
Hemanth, P. & Fisher, P. (2015). Mindfulness as a Way of Addressing the Deficits in Clinical Psychology Training Programs: Journal of Tropical Psychology. doi: /jtp