Mindfulness meditation in psychotherapy : an integrated model for clinicians / Steven A. Alper, MSW, LCSW.

"Mindfulness meditation can help both therapist and client stay in the present moment and make the most of treatment sessions. This new and unique approach will allow you to employ the healing power of mindfulness in session for better client outcomes. If you're a psychotherapist interested in implementing mindfulness practices into your therapy sessions, The Essential Guide to Mindfulness Meditation in Psychotherapy is a comprehensive manual to get you started. In this book, psychotherapist Steven Alper presents the mindfulness pyramid model: a multi-dimensional and graphic model for implementing mindfulness in psychotherapy. This practical guide will help demystify mindfulness meditation; elaborate on the psychotherapeutic benefits of practices such as body scan, breath awareness, sitting meditation, and lovingkindness; and offer helpful strategies for teaching formal and informal mindfulness skills to clients. This book conceptualizes and explores the applicability of his mindfulness pyramid model, and delves into the many ways in which mindfulness can manifest and be incorporated in psychotherapy. This is a must-have resource for any therapist"--

"Mindfulness meditation can help both therapists and clients stay in the present moment and make the most of treatment sessions. This comprehensive training manual presents the mindfulness pyramid model: a practical, multi-dimensional, and graphic model for implementing mindfulness in psychotherapy. Using the new approach outlined in this book, therapists will be able to employ the healing power of mindfulness for better treatment outcomes"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

What mindfulness meditation isn't and is -- Why mindfulness in psychotherapy? -- How mindfulness heals -- The mindfulness pyramid: an integrated model of mindfulness in psychotherapy -- The therapist's mindfulness practice as foundation -- Therapist's practice: formal meditations -- Therapist's practice: skills, inner capacities, attitudes, and perspectives -- Therapist's practice: method of inquiry and investigation and mode of knowing -- Therapist's practice: way of being and relating to experience -- Doing therapy as a mindfulness practice -- The intersubjective diamond: accounting for interbeing -- The client's mindfulness practice -- Conclusion: Mindfulness in psychotherapy, now and in the future -- Appendixes: A. Mindfulness resources -- B. Meditation practice log and mindfulness journal.

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