Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction/MBSR Clasees | UPMC

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What Is MBSR?

The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program was originally developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the late 1970s by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD. It is an eight-week, evidence-based, highly experiential course that is currently offered at more than 250 hospitals, universities, and clinical settings in the United States and around the world and has been featured recently in Newsweek, Time Magazine, and 60 Minutes.

MBSR's primary aim is to develop skills that can be flexibly applied in everyday life to stress, pain, and illness. Through experiential learning and discussion during class, as well as through daily mindfulness practice at home, participants learn and refine a range of self-regulatory skills that involve finely tuned attention to thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations.

The MBSR Program Involves:

According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, up to two-thirds of all office visits to family doctors are for stress-related symptoms. Depression and anxiety disorders are associated with chronic illness and chronic pain and should be addressed as part of the overall management of health problems. MBSR may help reduce medical symptoms and psychological distress as well as the need for clinical services.

Mindfulness meditation has been researched in conjunction with:

MBSR courses are typically offered in the winter / early spring, summer, and fall. To receive updates about newly scheduled courses, please email mindfulness@upmc.edu.

The winter MBSR course is currently being scheduled. Please check back for winter course information.

Please email grecocm@upmc.edu to receive updates.

You may register at an Orientation Session.

Attendance at an Orientation Session is required for MBSR course registration.

Orientations are free of charge and held from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Center for Integrative Medicine. Orientation attendance can be applied to registration in any future MBSR course at the Center for Integrative Medicine.

Continuing education (CEU) credits will be offered for nurses, psychologists, social workers, and licensed counselors through Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC.

Orientation Sessions and MBSR Courses are led by Carol M. Greco, PhD. Dr. Greco has practiced meditation for 23 years and is certified as an MBSR teacher by the UMass Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society. She has taught MBSR courses at the Center for Integrative Medicine at UPMC Shadyside since 2005.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction/MBSR Clasees | UPMC

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