Mindful Minutes: Cultivating Awareness in Children
$39.00
Intermediate
Online
Course Abstract
Mindful Minutes: Cultivating Awareness in Children is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE) course that provides a deeper understanding of what mindfulness is and how it can help children to develop social and emotional regulation skills, manage stress, and skillfully approach the challenges they face in life.
We begin by exploring how the attention of today’s youth is susceptible to increased demands and overstimulation from screen related technology and the idea that children’s attention is a commodity, which can be cultivated and harvested with detrimental effects on their well-being. This leads into a brief discussion on the how, and possibly why, children’s mental health has deteriorated in recent years.
Evidence-based research on the positive effects of mindfulness on children’s social and emotional wellbeing is presented. Five mindfulness skill areas are introduced, followed by ten creative mindfulness skill building techniques. These techniques are shared through description, application, research, and examples of real-life stories, illustrating how to incorporate mindfulness into your daily routine.
Finally, we outline how mindfulness can be fostered through “Try It” activities that will support children as they learn how to focus, cultivate self-awareness, regulate emotions, and respond calmly to situations with kindness and compassion.
Course #31-45 | 2022 | 53 pages | 20 posttest questions
Learning Objectives
- Identify three possible reasons for the deterioration of children’s mental health in recent years
- List three benefits of mindfulness for children
- Differentiate between teaching mindfulness to adults and teaching mindfulness to children
- Summarize the connection between engaging in creative arts (music, visual art, dance, etc.) and mindfulness
- Describe how mindful movement and using the four senses can support children’s social and emotional well-being
- Explain how positive psychology creates health and emotional well-being
Course Directions
This online course provides instant access to the course materials (PDF download) and CE test. The course is text-based (reading) and the CE test is open-book (you can print the test to mark your answers on it while reading the course document).
Successful completion of this course involves passing an online test (80% required, 3 chances to take) and we ask that you also complete a brief course evaluation.
About the Author(s)
CE Information
Counseling
Professional Development Resources (PDR) has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5590. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. PDR is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0135 - Note: New York counselors will receive 3 continuing education credits for completing this self-study course).
Marriage and Family Therapy
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Professional Development Resources is also approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP #5590); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB #1046, ACE Program); the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0100 - Note: New York MFTs will receive 3 continuing education credit(s) for completing this self-study course); the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (#114); and is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Occupational Therapy
Professional Development Resources is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course provider ID# 3159. This distance learning-independent course is offered at 0.3 CEUs, intermediate level, OT Service Delivery]. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
School Psychology
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145).
Social Work
Professional Development Resources, #1046, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/12/2022 - 6/12/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.
Professional Development Resources is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion). Professional Development Resources, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW-0664 - Note: New York social workers will receive 3 continuing education credit(s) for completing this self-study course). Professional Development Resources is also approved by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners (#5678).
Teaching
Professional Development Resources is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Professional Development Resources maintains responsibility for all programs and content. Professional Development Resources is also approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC ACEP #5590); the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB Provider #1046, ACE Program); the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA Provider #AAUM); the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA Provider #3159); the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR Prior Approval Program); the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists (#PSY-0145), State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors (#MHC-0135) and marriage and family therapists (#MFT-0100), and the State Board for Social Workers as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (#SW-0664); the Texas Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists (#114) and State Board of Social Worker Examiners (#5678); and is CE Broker compliant (#50-1635 - all courses are reported within two business days of completion).
Customer Testimonials
Thank you for a well thought out and pertinent presentation of mindfulness practices with children and youth. It has been well worth my time and money.
As someone who has been teaching mindfulness to kids and running a small mindfulness group for adults over 65, the course clarified some concepts and gave me additional tools to improve my practice. Thank you!!
As a pediatric OT, this course offered me great information. There was a good variety of clearly described activities to promote improved mindfulness, increased calm, and self-regulation.
I appreciate how the course broke mindfulness practices down clearly and into distinct categories of practice.
One of the best online trainings I have completed in a while. Interesting and informative! I can definitely use all of this in my current working environment.
More Testimonials
Well presented, easy to follow examples of how to implement mindful activities.
As an LPC I have been working with kids in a clinical setting and using a lot of the techniques listed here. However, this course reminded me of WHY I was using the techniques and why they are effective! Thank you PDR!
I am looking forward to employing many of these mindfulness activities with my students as well as my own children. I will be recommending this course to other therapists and teachers I work with!
I really liked the activities suggested by the author and will try them with the children I work with.
This course was very interesting and organized very efficiently.
Very well presented, practical, applicable content. Thank you!
Loved the just-right balance of underlying basis, theory, supporting research, and treatment ideas/activities and resources!
I really enjoy the provided ways to implement mindfulness techniques into treatment sessions. The breakdown of activities will be very beneficial to my clients.
THis was a very positive learning experience. I feel energized.
Thank you, PDR, for this amazing course! Have a wonderful evening!
As I take more of these courses, I grow in my appreciation of what you offer, which is, a quality and a depth of learning that most of the "live" CE presentations do not have. Plus, there is the palpable printed course material that becomes valuable reference material. The live presentations have become a cottage industry of people who like to identify themselves as experts but who often show shallow knowledge of their own proclaimed area of expertise.
A very informative and helpful course.
Great CEU! Very well written and direct. I learned a lot from it.
Learned many interventions that can be used with children to teach mindfulness!
Comprehensive, helpful examples, and well sequenced.
Great Course! Well organized and easy to follow. Thank you!
This was a highly valuable course. All the positive methods are useful to children, adolescents, and adults. Great! Thank you!
Well presented, loved the step by step suggested activities to go along with the learning. Extremely relevant information.
Excellent. I learned some new ways to practice mindfulness with children.
Good discussion of working with children along with excellent list of resources.
Great course. I was familiar with a lot of the content and yet I still learned a great deal. Thank you.
I really appreciated the examples and instruction for putting each of the concepts into practice.
Very good training. I appreciated all of the guided practice examples. Makes it easy to translate to clinical interventions.
