Elective course - Mindfulness: theory & practice

This course will deal with the concept of mindfulness. The concept of mindfulness is gaining popularity with academic psychology as well as in mainstream psychology. As the term is being used and applied in a broader range of psychological programs and interventions it becomes  an increasing topic of interest for psychologists.

As such this course aims to qualify the students’ knowledge of the term and enable them to work with mindfulness in a wider range of psychological contexts from a critical scientific basis.

The course will introduce mindfulness as a psychological construct, herein present and discuss ways to understand and describe the concept. Theoretical perspectives that seeks to illuminate the origin, development, potential and limitations of mindfulness will be presented.

Empirical studies that exemplifies the aforementioned, will continuously work to demonstrate different  operationalizations and effects of mindfulness interventions. These studies will primarily be clinical and cognitive studies.

In addition the course will contain a smaller practical part, where select mindfulness exercises will be exemplified. As such the course aims to give the students a “1-1” experience and practice-based understanding of the concept of mindfulness.