Mindfulness for Trauma

Greetings, and welcome to the third video in this review of TF-DBT. In this video, we will do a quick review of mindfulness. So let’s get started.

Okay. So obviously, we’ve talked a lot about mindfulness throughout this course. In previous modules, we’ve explained why mindfulness is so important, especially for treating this population. So what is mindfulness? Mindfulness is all about paying attention for a purpose in the present without judging. Applied mindfulness always involves a combination of awareness, acceptance, and action. So If you recall, a point I made repeatedly in previous modules, awareness and acceptance is already action. In fact, that’s a lot more action than people, most people, ever take.

Linehan, M. M. (2015). DBT skills training manual (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.,Reutter, K. (2019). The dialectical behavior therapy skills workbook for PTSD: Practical exercises for overcoming trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. New Harbinger Publications.

And the reason that mindfulness is such an effective agent of change is because human observation literally affects everything in the universe that we could possibly observe, including the mind itself, right? So Mindfulness is all about learning to observe the mind as a way of actually changing the mind.

Linehan, M. M. (2015). DBT skills training manual (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.,Reutter, K. (2019). The dialectical behavior therapy skills workbook for PTSD: Practical exercises for overcoming trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. New Harbinger Publications.