Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology
Mindfulness–Based Approaches for Working with
Children and Young People
Who is it for?
Professionals working in children’s services (including social care, education and health).
The course is an approved UCL course which will count as such towards participants’ CPD
requirements.
What does it cover?
Mindfulness is a particular way of paying attention to everyday experience. It forms the
basis of an evidence based intervention (MBCT) recommended in the NICE guidance for
depression. Evidence increasingly suggests mindfulness can also form part of universal,
preventative interventions or be used to support targeted groups of vulnerable youngsters.
Moreover, and perhaps most importantly, it can support positive well-being, including
improved attention, concentration and resilience.
This innovative course provides participants with:
 In-depth experience of a range of guided mindfulness practices, including a body
scan, mindfulness of breath, sounds and thoughts and mindful movement
 Support to develop their own mindfulness practice and a CD/download for use at
home
 Knowledge and understanding of mindfulness theory and mechanisms, and evidence
from recent research into its uses and effectiveness
 Understanding of how to adapt mindfulness interventions for children with a focus
on improving wellbeing, and the practicalities and pitfalls of developing
programmes in schools
 A review of a range of programmes currently available and materials to deliver the
recently developed Mindful Attention Programme (MAP)
 Competence in delivering a basic mindfulness intervention to children and young
people and developing materials of their own
 Consideration of the need for continued development of home practice and
appropriate supervision
What is involved?
Participants will be expected to undertake home practice of approximately 20 minutes
duration, 4-5 times a week. In session, the guided mindful stretches and movement will
require the participants to bring a yoga mat and to wear loose fitting clothing.
Who is running it?
Dr Suzi Iyadurai is a Chartered Educational Psychologist working in private practice, and an
honorary lecturer and research advisor at UCL. She is a qualified yoga teacher and has
practiced meditation for 35 years. She has followed the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
(MBCT) training at Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre and is also an experienced Cognitive
Behavioural Therapist. Suzi has set up a whole school mindfulness project, involving direct
work with children and staff training, which resulted in improvements in children’s attention
and reductions in emotional symptoms and was very positively evaluated. Suzi has given
presentations on mindfulness at the 2006 BABCP conference, to the BPS Wessex branch in 2007
and to a special interest group at the Maudsley Hospital in 2008. She currently runs yoga-based
mindfulness groups, and integrates mindfulness into her CBT practice.
Jeremy Morris is an Educational Psychologist and an accredited Cognitive Behaviour
Therapist. He has been interested in Mindfulness and its applications for over 8 years, and
alongside developing a personal practice, he has been using mindfulness with individual
children in his therapy work. Jeremy gives a regular presentation on Mindfulness applications
for children at the Anna Freud Centre and is currently testing a mindfulness programme he has
developed for the prevention of depression as part of a larger Randomised Controlled Trial. He
is particularly interested in defining and measuring mindfulness and has developed a
questionnaire of the related construct of distraction as part of his current doctoral work at
UCL.
Dr Sandra Dunsmuir is Co-Director of the Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology at
UCL and is also a Joint Course Director on the UCL/Anna Freud Centre postgraduate courses in
CBT for Children and Young People, teaching and supervising practitioners from a range of
professional backgrounds on a regular basis. Sandra has had extensive experience working as
an educational psychologist in four different local authorities and continues to practice on a
regular basis with children, their families and teachers in delivering CBT interventions in
school and community settings. Sandra has extended her interest in CBT to include Mindfulness
based approaches, has followed a 10 week course and now integrates mindfulness into her
practice. Sandra is involved in leading an exploratory trial of a depression preventive
programme delivered to teenagers during school lessons comparing three interventions - CBT;
CBT plus decision making and mindfulness. She has edited a Portfolio of Measures of Children’s
Mental Health & Psychological Wellbeing.
Further details
The course runs for 8 weeks on Tuesday afternoons from 2pm – 5pm. It starts on 23rd
September 2014 and ends on 18th November 2014 (with a half term break on 28th October).
It will take place in the Dept. of Psychology, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP.
The cost is £450.00 for the eight week course.
To apply:
You can download an electronic application form by going to:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/educational-psychology/cpd/mindfulness.htm
Or please see overleaf to book a place
Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology
Mindfulness–Based Approaches for Working with Children
and Young People
Tuesday 23rd September – Tuesday 18th November 2014
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Closing date for applications is Tuesday 9th September 2014
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Cancellation policy: If a cancellation is made on or before Tuesday 26th August 2014, then 80% of
the registration fee will be refunded. After this date, no refunds can be made.