10/18/2024 Noon – 2:15pm Facilitated by: Lisa Cromer, Ph.D.
Summary:
Mindfulness is well-known to be effective as a stand-alone or adjunctive treatment for managing stress and anxiety. This talk focuses on compassion as a specific form of mindfulness. Compassion involves cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills that not only reduce negative mind states but which cultivate positive mind states and social connectedness. Compassion predicts psychological health and well-being. Equanimity, the ability to remain calm even during positive and negative stress, is explained as an achievable mind state for not only surviving school and career challenges and difficulties, but also for being a source of joy and freedom from suffering. Examples will demonstrate how to use compassion and equanimity in graduate school and during one’s early professional career. This approach can be useful for mentors, clinicians, and anyone wanting to learn about mindful approaches for resilience and resistance to adversity.
Learning objectives:
1. Identify how mindfulness approaches are complex and have multiple mechanisms of change
2. Define equanimity and understand why this is a state of resilience
3. Describe how compassion cultivation training promotes resilience
4. Identify three regular practices that can help to cultivate compassion and equanimity
2 CEUS: Oklahoma LPC, LADC (2 hrs. Mental Health), CADC, LCSW, LMFT and Case Management. Nursing certificate of participation. Pre-registration is required. Seating is limited. please refer questions to esachau@parksideinc.org. This is not an Ethics CEU.
About the Presenter: Lisa Cromer, Ph.D.
Dr. Lisa Cromer is a clinical psychologist and an associate professor of clinical psychology at The University of Tulsa where she teaches Diversity, Ethics, and Law, and Intervention Science. Dr Cromer was awarded the Outstanding Early Career Achievement in Trauma Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association, and recently received the Medicine Wheel Award for Outstanding Community Service. Dr. Cromer conducts trauma and resilience research focusing on helping people thrive through adversity; her prevention and intervention research emphasizes accessibility through telehealth.
